App Quality at the Center of Amazon’s AppStore Milestone
Perhaps lost amidst the release of the new Fire TV, Amazon also announced that its app store has surpassed the 200,000 apps mark. The Amazon AppStore has shown significant growth since its inception...
View Article5 New Developments Related to the Heartbleed Bug
With vulnerabilities on giant servers like Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook, the Heartbleed Bug is one of the largest security mishaps to ever hit the Internet. But as the story unfolds, there are...
View ArticleDon’t Read This Post in Internet Explorer
In fact, don’t do anything in Internet Explorer. At least that’s the advice of both the US and UK governments, along with nearly every major tech publication. Why? Because a recently discovered exploit...
View Article4 Software Bugs You Probably Missed This Week
With all the hype surrounding Heartbleed and the IE bug, you may have been led to believe that every other piece of software in world has been running flawlessly the past several weeks – not so. It...
View ArticleWhat Can Shaq Teach Us About App Quality?
Shaquille O’Neal is known for many things. He’s one of the most dominant centers in basketball history. He’s also a spokesman, an investor, a horrible rapper and an even worse actor. But as we...
View ArticleAre You Losing 52% of Your Mobile Users?
Today’s mobile users have very high expectations for their online experience. A study by Google reports 48% of users feel if a site doesn’t work well on mobile it means the company doesn’t care, and...
View ArticleHow It’s Made: The Mobile App Episode?
Space pens, beef jerky, cow bells, flip flops – until the show How It’s Made came along, the average citizen had no idea how everyday products like these were created. Now they do, and I think we can...
View ArticleNeed App Advice? Ask a Marketer
App success is generally viewed as the primary goal of the development, design and QA teams, respectively. But as we’ve long argued, the success (or failure) of an application is actually a...
View ArticleGood News For Aspiring App Designers
Just when you thought the mobile app world couldn’t get any more crowded and competitive, along comes Marvel. The UK startup has come up with a new iPhone app that can turn the average person into a...
View ArticleSoftware Testing Budgets on the Rise, Focused on the ‘New IT’
Software testing and QA budgets keep on going up, and shiny, new toys are all of their focus. According to a ZDNet report based off of a new survey of 1,543 CIOs, conducted and published by Capgemini...
View ArticleAuthors in Testing Q&A With Agile Testing Champion Lisa Crispin
Lisa Crispin was voted the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person at Agile Testing Days 2012 by her peers, and enjoys working as a tester with an awesome agile team. She shares her...
View ArticleWhat Can Shaq Teach Us About App Quality?
Shaquille O’Neal is known for many things. He’s one of the most dominant centers in basketball history. He’s also a spokesman, an investor, a horrible rapper and an even worse actor. But as we...
View ArticleAre You Losing 52% of Your Mobile Users?
Today’s mobile users have very high expectations for their online experience. A study by Google reports 48% of users feel if a site doesn’t work well on mobile it means the company doesn’t care, and...
View ArticleAvoiding the Common Pitfalls When Adopting New Technologies
According to Inc.com, there are hundreds of new virtual and physical technology tools for businesses that come out every year. Some examples of these technological tools are smart phone sensors that...
View ArticleExplore Capabilities, Not Features
Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. Gojko is the co-author of a book called 50 Quick...
View ArticleAugmented Reality Offers Glimpse of Future
New technologies are often built upon the successes and ideas that have come before them. Always building off and taking advantage of previous technology, development and advancement becomes an...
View ArticleThe Device Purchase Quandry: How To Decide Which Devices to Buy for Mobile...
The question is not what devices to buy now but what device to buy anytime. How do you choose what to buy, what is your decision process on device purchasing? Let’s imagine you have the opportunity to...
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