Everyone wants a mobile app of some sort these days, and they want it for every major platform. That’s great news for developers who need the work, but mobile app development comes with plenty of complications you don’t get when developing software for Windows, Linux or MacOS.The most obvious problem is that the machine you do the actual development on is nothing like the device that must actually run the software! So how should you approach software testing in this tricky context? That’s a great question! However, the answer needs some explanation. ...

DeepMind was able to show that deep learning networks can be effectively used to train agents to play games. This is significant because the input their learner takes in is the game screen and a set of controls the agent can perform. In previous work in this area, researchers had to hand extract features which helped the AI agent learn the game. With deep learning that process is automated in the deep learning network. The network learns important features and learns policies that lead to a good score ...

A cat has nine lives, but your software doesn’t. I imagine Jenny will say something like this. Jenny started her career working as a support engineer. As a support engineer, she learned that software is not simply something that does its job but it makes their life better. ...

It’s well known that mobile games are resource hungry apps. That’s why they become the best candidate for testing underlying system performance. Google has made lots of improvements in the Android 8 Run Time over Android 7, so we decided to test it out with two popular games, Flappy Bird and Super Mario, in order to have a better understanding of what makes the Run Time on Android 8 so much better ...

I gave a talk at GTAC 2015 on using robots for Android App Testing. The talk got a lot of interest and I presented on the same topic at AndroidSummit, Connect.TECH and several meetups to share my ideas with developers and get feedback on their thoughts. Most of my audience were fascinated by the idea of having a robot test your app for increasing coverage and identifying all failures (crashes) in the application ...