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The Challenges of Mobile Testing for Jailbroken Devices Many of the automation tools for mobile testing on the market today require the use of jailbroken or rooted devices, a controversial condition that some testing advocates believe violates mobile testing best practices. Bonnie Bailey writes of the challenges jailbroken devices present to testers. |
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The Good, Bad, and the Ugly of Windows 8 Windows 8 has been released and the world did not come to an end, as many think should happen when Microsoft releases a new OS. Joe Townsend takes a look at the reviews of Microsoft's flagship OS, including the good, bad, and, yes, even the ugly. |
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How Windows 8 Affects Software Testing The Windows 8 changes that will most affect software testers are the visual updates. Software testers will have to ensure that the program under test works both in the tile system and in the desktop environment, which many people will probably still use. |
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Mobile Drives Bottom Line Growth for Business There’s a thin line between success and failure in the modern economy. Lately, that difference is increasingly tied to technology and a company’s willingness (and ability) to adopt it. The most obvious example today is that of mobile applications. |
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The Perils of Closed Ecosystems A closed ecosystem, where a single entity controls both the hardware platform and what content can go onto it, has far-reaching ramifications for corporate and individual consumers. It's also a risk that needs to be given serious consideration when a business decides to develop for the platform. |
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Can End-Users Help Enhance Product Quality? It is a well-accepted fact that bringing end-user focus into a product is very important to its overall success. Testers have always been viewed as end-user advocates in product teams. What is becoming more important is to engage end-users in the product development cycle in every possible way. |
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Here Comes Another Mobile Wallet: Isis Isis—the joint venture of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon—is the latest entrant in the mobile payment market. With a lackluster October 2012 soft launch in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah, is this another sign that the mobile wallet is a cool feature that no one really wants? |
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Big Data's Role in Winning and Losing the Election The Romney campaign certainly embraced social media and technology as a whole more than the GOP in 2008, but an election day failure of their secret weapon may have cost them key votes. While some are claiming that hacking brought it down, many more are saying it was a lack of stress testing. |
