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Mobile DevOps

By : Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi
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Mobile DevOps

By: Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi

Overview of this book

Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today. The main goal of this book is to teach developers to implement DevOps to build, test, and deliver. This book will teach you to implement Mobile DevOps at every stage of your application's lifecycle with Visual Studio and Xamarin Mobile Lifecycle solutions. Later, it will also show you how to leverage Mobile Center's continuous integration and automated testing to develop a high-quality applications. Next, you’ll see how to mobilize your on-premises data to the cloud and increase your productivity with code reuse. Finally, you’ll discover how to find and fix bugs beforehand, improving the efficiency of your application while it is being developed. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Mobile DevOps techniques, delivering high quality and high performance mobile apps.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Testing a mobile application

With a web application or a desktop application, the number of platform versions and devices to test with is very low.

It is always simpler to have manual testers test the application, find out the shortcomings and defects in an application, and notify the developers.

But when it comes to mobile applications, the story completely changes.

If we only talk about an Android application, for example, let's have a look at the number of challenges in testing.

Challenges in testing a mobile application

There are many challenges when it comes to testing a mobile app:

  • Testing against a real environment
  • Deploying and testing frequently
  • Continuous feedback
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