Meetup south bay quality engineering july 23 2012

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Going MobileAn Approach to Mobile Software Test Automation

Brad Johnson: [email protected] / @bradjohnsonsvJason Slater: [email protected]

South Bay Quality Engineering Meetup: July 23, 2012

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The Explosive Rate of Mobile App UsageMore than 1.8 Billion Users and 30 Billion App Downloads!

iOS300 million devicesOver 700,000 Apps

ANDROID250 million devicesOver 400,000 Apps

Sources:Mary Meeker - KPCB– 5/30/12Google Jan. 2012PC World Jan. 2012

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Mobile User Experience (mUX) EvolutionAdvances in information access is life-changing

Kinetics

Hovering Gestures

Gestures

Bendable Phones

3D Navigation

Mouse

Voice

Keyboards

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o Shear Number of Devices (953M Smartphones)

o Different Operating Systems

o Scale of Global Customers (6B)

o Dynamic Content (Video, Animation)

o Emerging People to Machine

Interfaces

o Estimated 2M Apps – This Year

Mobile ChallengeDelivering Quality In An Ever Changing Mobile Landscape

We Can’t Test This Manually

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Mobile Testing is Still in the PastSlow, manual approaches impede adoption

Fingers and Eyeballs VS. Pace and Scale of Mobile Development

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Mobile Test Automation CloudTest Mobile Takes the “In App” Approach

Gesture-Based - High-Precision – Reliable – Maintainable - Fast

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Mobile Test Automation Demonstration

Visually compose and execute tests

Record mobile

gestures & events

Instantly analyze results