Mobile Dev + Test 2015

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Mobile Performance Testing Crash Course

With more and more web traffic coming from mobile devices, performance on tablets and smartphones has a profound impact on user experience and, ultimately, your company’s bottom line. Dustin Whittle shares the latest performance testing tools and insights for web developers. Dustin...
Dustin Whittle, AppDynamics
Plotting a Better Beer with Geolocation: An Untappd Case Study

Geolocation enhances the experience of many services and provides users with customized results based on their current location. Many people don’t realize what an important role geolocation can play in locating their favorite beer—and Untappd, a mobile application around beer discovery...
Greg Avola, Untappd
Real-Time Contextual and Social Relevance in Mobile

Personalized mobile user experience is a hot topic today because a smarter app will delight users, keep them coming back, and make your business stand out from the crowd. The extreme version of personalization is real-time contextual and social relevance. According to Jason Arbon...
Jason Arbon, appdiff.com
Software Attacks for Embedded, Mobile, and Internet of Things

In the world of embedded systems, mission-critical mobile apps, and the Internet of Things (IoT), developers and testers must do more than just look for feature bugs. To find potential failures and serious security errors, their arsenal should include attack-based exploratory testing. In...
Jon Hagar, Independent Consultant
The Coming Avalanche of Wearable Mobile Apps

For better or for worse—like it or not—mobile wearables are already changing our lives. Mobile wearable devices form a new generation of personalized technology that knows us better than our closest friends do. How many of your friends know how far you walked or what you ate? The challenge...
Philip Lew, XBOSoft
The Internet of Things and You

What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? What are the technologies that make it happen? Where do we see it today? Where will we see it tomorrow? What capabilities will it provide, and what do we need to know to take part in it? Jim McKeeth considers where IoT is taking us and discusses the...
Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero Technologies
The Perfect Storm: Mobile Application Quality

Mobile applications are fraught with risk. The unique, portable nature and multiple uses of mobile devices bring a wide variety of critical quality properties into play: reliability, usability, security, availability, and maintainability. Allocating the effort to identify and ensure these...
Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.
The Software Developers Guide to Prototyping Wearable Devices

Prototyping wearable devices used to be something that required specialized skills in electrical engineering, embedded development, and mechanical engineering. Today, thanks to the maker revolution, we can combine our deep knowledge of programming with basic electronics, soldering...
Lance Gleason, Polyglot Programming Inc.
Thought: The Future of Mobile and Embedded Application Input

Control of complex machines by human thought has been a mainstay of science fiction writing and films for years. In the movie Firefox, Clint Eastwood steals a highly advanced Russian fighter jet that is controlled by the pilot’s thoughts. But real devices are now appearing that purport to...
Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero Technologies
Today and Tomorrow: Mobile's Impact on Development and Testing

There are more than 1.4 billion smartphones in the world—one for every 4.5 people on earth. Over the next decade wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT) will make those numbers look puny. In fact, mobile is transforming how people and things connect and dramatically changing software...
James Montemagno, Xamarin

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