As you iterate on your app and add features and code to it, the effort needed to test your app will increase. Eventually, you will reach a point where you need to find a more efficient process for creating, executing, and reporting on your test cases. Mobile test automation tools help you increase your testers’…
With the abundance of apps available, mobile users now have a very low tolerance towards apps with poor performance. This is not limited to bugs and crashes as users also take things like the app’s speed and battery consumption into consideration. According to a report by Dimensional Research, 49% of users expect apps to start…
Ever since its inception in the 1980s, the practice of dogfooding has been steadily gaining in popularity. Today, it is no longer an obscure strategy used only by the most progressive companies and we can find many examples of dogfooding across industries. Dogfooding is not a silver bullet and is certainly not a replacement for…
Ever since TestFlight was acquired by Apple back in 2014, they have been constantly iterating on the tool and steadily improving its performance and capabilities. Today, TestFlight has become not just the go-to tool for iOS beta build distribution, but practically the only tool that can do the job well. While TestFlight and Instabug share…
Zendesk is one of the most popular help desk management tools thanks to its extensive features and intuitive experience. With its ability to collate user feedback from all your channels into one platform, it has made a huge difference in the way support teams work. Thanks in part to the mobile revolution, customer feedback and…
With more than 57 million repositories, GitHub is the largest source code host in the world and virtually all developers know their way around it. If you use GitHub for version control, making use of its Issues module for bug tracking is a great option. Your developers spend a lot of time in GitHub. Allowing…
Soft launching, dark launching, and canary releases are useful strategies you can employ to test the market, make sure issues don’t reach production, and minimize their impact if they do. There does seem to be a lot of confusion on the definition of each term and the nuances between them and they are often used…
JIRA is by far the most popular project management and task management tool across many industries. This popularity has made JIRA one of the most commonly available integrations for processes like testing, communication, and CI/CD. And since JIRA is the command center for your project, close integration with the other tools in your stack will…
When your application is ready for its first beta test, you might feel worried about sharing your app externally, considering the risk it might pose to secrecy, privacy, and even security. Likewise, when beta testing a new app, many testers can feel concerned about the data the beta app collects and how it handles it.…
Ever since its release back in 2013, Slack has been quickly adopted by many teams across different industries. And with its ability to cut emails by almost half and reduce the need for meetings by 25%, it is no wonder it has become near ubiquitous. This popularity has also spurred a lot of different tools…
While you can use spreadsheets as a way to manage test cases for a small team, it can quickly turn into a huge burden as your team grows and you iterate on your app. Other tools like JIRA can be configured to support test cases, but will not offer testing-specific features. Eventually, you will need…
Trello is an extremely simple and flexible task management tool that can be adapted for a wide variety of processes and workflows. However, Trello’s true power lies in its ability to integrate with a huge number of tools, enabling it to unleash the full potential of the tools in your stack. In this post, we…