Mobile and Cloud Converge to Change the App Landscape . . . . . . What Does that Mean for your Business? This guest post is authored by Jeff Vance, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Startup.50, a site devoted to identifying hot new startups. Jeff also regularly contributes feature stories to CIO, Forbes.com, Network World and… Read more »
Guest Post: An Experience Report Building a Mobile Automated Test Lab With SOASTA TouchTest
Written by Wil Pannel. Wil Pannel is an enterprise Software engineer evolving as an agile practitioner. His firm, Media Agility, provides consulting to global clients seeking the latest approaches to mobile software development and deployment. Prelude I came to develop a PhoneGap application on IOS and Android tablets. Agile/lean engineering practice led to test-first development,… Read more »
No, thanks, I really did want prototype
In CloudTest, we’ve built an error capture and reporting process similar to what you see in Apple’s crash reporting. If we detect an error, either on the server or in the client’s web browser, we’ll show an error dialog which allows the user to supply additional information and submit the error to SOASTA so our… Read more »
Could developers be the future of software testing?
According to different reports, the global software testing market is around $30B and is looking at growing at about $50B in 2020. Not too shabby! It is estimated that around 30% to 40% of this market is taken by offshore testing services (these days located in India, Eastern Europe and South America for the most part). I have nothing… Read more »
The only way to conduct real-world tests … is in the real world.
This guest post is authored by Seth Eliot, Sr. Knowledge Engineer in Test at Microsoft and a well-known speaker and blogger. Seth shared additional content during an October 31 webinar with SOASTA on Testing in Production Advances with Big Data and the Cloud. In 1985 Microsoft ran a classified ad in the newspaper recruiting testers:… Read more »
Is your Enterprise QA organization ready for Mobile?
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last 18 months, you should know that Mobile is the way forward to conduct business, deliver media and entertain. There’s still a lot of debate about whether native apps are the right model (according to Marc Andreessen, The application model of the future is the web… Read more »
Did Affordability Save the Holidays?
We’ve just emerged from the largest US holiday opener in online history – Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2012! Generally, the web performed favorably. Congrats to the well-prepared! Cyber Monday sales were up 30% from last year, just shy of $2B – $1.98 – from Internet Retailer. Black Friday online sales exceeded $1B for the… Read more »
Guest Post: Continuous Integration for Mobile Apps with Jenkins: SOASTA CloudTest for iOS Apps
Mark Prichard is Java PaaS Evangelist for CloudBees. He came to CloudBees after 13 years at BEA Systems and Oracle, where he was Product Manager for the WebLogic Platform. A graduate of St. John’s College, Cambridge and the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, Mark works for CloudBees in Los Altos, California. Follow Mark on Twitter and via his blog Clouds, Bees… Read more »
Product Innovation. How SOASTA’s Changing the Game.
Infrastructure and services are major challenges faced by those in the automotive industry trying to drive the adoption of electric vehicles. Whether it’s charging stations to enable long trips or qualified mechanics to keep the car running, product innovations such as electric vehicles require complementary adaptations in the services offered to support them. When we introduced… Read more »
You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
An Internet record was shattered the other day and few Westerners took notice. On November 11, 2012 – known as “Singles Day” and “Double Sticks” – during their annual half-off sale, one company, Alibaba, who runs the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, TaoBao.com, took in over US $3 Billion (RMB 19B) in revenue. This beats the… Read more »
We are a society obsessed with speed.
The fastest car on the planet, the Thrust SSC, broke the sound barrier and holds the land speed record at 763 mph. Last week, the biggest rocket fired in the UK in 20 years was a test for the one that will propel the Bloodhound SSC, the car that hopes to crush the record and… Read more »
Digging into the RUM at SOASTA
Real User Measurement (RUM) is a new analytics tool for marketing and operations professionals. Marketing has a huge data component and good marketing is all about how you use that analytical data. A month ago we installed our new product, mPulse, on SOASTA.com. mPulse is a product we co-developed with Lognormal, the leading Real-time User… Read more »
Get involved with SOASTA CloudTest Mobile Development!
Back in February of this year we introduced a brand new capability to CloudTest allowing developers and testers around the world to perform functional test automation for mobile devices. We also introduced our Early Adopter Program, allowing participants early access to new product features before the general release of the product. We received great feedback… Read more »
Continuous Deployment for Mobile Apps with Jenkins: Back-end Services and Integration Testing
In last Tuesday’s post Java PaaS Evangelist Mark Prichard described how to configure Jenkins to manage Xcode builds for iOS applications using MacOS slaves, which he demoed at the recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group Meetup. For this demo, he built a simple servlet-based chess server with REST web services to record games and moves, using JAX-RS,… Read more »
Continuous Deployment for Mobile Apps with Jenkins: Xcode Builds with MacOS Slaves
At a recent meetup organized by the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, our very own Matt Solnit, along with Jenkins/Hudson creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi and CloudBees Java PaaS Evangelist Mark Prichard, did a demonstration of how to manage end-to-end continuous deployment for mobile app development using Jenkins CI, with everything managed in the cloud using CloudBees DEV@cloud PaaS service. Mark blogged walking through the… Read more »
Milliseconds Matter. Testing London2012.com.
An athlete doesn’t just show up at the Olympics, or any high-level competition for that matter, and successfully contend. There are literally years of preparation involved in converting raw talent into world-class performance. For an event the scale of the Olympics the host city also spends years preparing, and for the recent concluding 2012 Games, often… Read more »
Ready for the holiday buying season?
I recently gave my first webinar as a SOASTAN. The topic was Retail Readiness, a subject that brings back many memories: late nights testing in preparation for the walls of traffic that come screaming at you at 12am after you’ve stuffed yourself with turkey, listening intently as performance engineers call out stats while you push… Read more »
Living the Dream: Agile Mobile Cloud Delivery As A Service
Did I just wake up in tech marketer’s buzzword heaven? Can I really say mobile, cloud, PaaS and agile in one sentence without getting thrown out of any software developer meetup? We’ll see… The good thing is, I’m not going to have to actually say it, some really smart engineers will be doing it instead…. Read more »
Deploying on the Cloud: Lessons Learned with CloudTest
THE CHALLENGE Performance testing challenges have changed rather dramatically in the last decade. Release timelines are accelerating as delivery cycles become compressed. Speed to test has never been more important. In addition, consumer-facing applications require testing at greater scale than ever before, often against a production infrastructure. What hasn’t changed are the tradeoffs that testers… Read more »
Speed and Completeness
There’s a common premise heard from business school to the boardroom: Quality, Service and Price, pick two. The notion is that no company can consistently provide high-quality products at the lowest price and with the highest level of service. In any competitive market, that’s likely to be an accurate assertion, certainly as goods become commoditized…. Read more »
