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Pinterest Aug 5, 2019

Ad Metrics Quality And Testing On Mobile

Maya Reddy from Pinterest reveals how their team eliminated last-minute P1 bugs by automating ad metrics testing. The shift from bi-weekly manual QA to continuous integration transformed their release confidenc...

SoundCloud Apr 3, 2019

Quality Assurance and Testing for Mobile Applications

Julio Zynger from SoundCloud reveals how they ship mobile releases every two weeks without breaking things. Their secret? A release train model that turns chaos into predictability.

Meta Oct 19, 2018

MobileLab: Prevent Mobile Performance Regressions

Facebook ships thousands of commits daily to their mobile apps. How do you catch a 1% performance regression before millions of users feel it?

Shopify Sep 11, 2018

Mobile Tophatting at Shopify

Pedro Piñera from Shopify reveals how they turned a 15-minute context switch into a single command. No QA team? No problem when developers can test each other's work this fast.

Bumble Aug 15, 2018

Guide to Mobile App Autotesting Tools

Arseny Batyrov from Badoo's QA team built the mobile testing guide he couldn't find anywhere else. After combing the internet for tool comparisons and finding nothing comprehensive, he created this definitive b...

Badoo Aug 15, 2018

Guide to Mobile App Autotesting Tools

Arseny Batyrov from Badoo's QA team built the mobile testing guide he couldn't find anywhere else. His comprehensive breakdown of autotesting tools reveals which ones actually matter in 2018.

Google Jul 9, 2018

Android Emulator AMD Processor Hyper-V Support

Jamal Eason from Google just opened up hardware-accelerated Android emulation to thousands of developers who were stuck with slow software emulation. If you've been running AMD processors or Hyper-V, this chang...

LinkedIn Apr 20, 2018

The Mobile Crash Reporting Pipeline at LinkedIn

LinkedIn processes massive volumes of mobile crash data to keep their app stable for millions of users. Here's how they built the pipeline.

LINE Mar 13, 2018

Using Docker to build a testing infrastructure for web UI and mobile

LINE Engineering ditched expensive cloud testing services and built their own Docker-based infrastructure. The result? Flexible, cost-effective testing for both web and mobile.

Badoo Feb 13, 2018

Enhancing Appium Android Tests with Advanced Techniques

Raj Varma from Bumble's engineering team reveals how to give your Appium tests superpowers. His solution lets test code directly call methods inside your Android app—solving problems that seemed impossible.

Badoo Aug 1, 2017

Mind Maps for Fast and Effective Testing

Kateryna Sprynsian from Bumble's iOS team ditched traditional test cases for something faster. With weekly releases shipping multiple features, her team needed a testing approach that could actually keep up.

LinkedIn May 4, 2017

Mobile Crash Reporting at LinkedIn

LinkedIn built their own crash reporting system instead of using third-party tools. Here's why that decision paid off.

Bumble Apr 5, 2017

Breaking the Limitations of Calabash Android

Rajdeep Varma from Badoo cracked a problem that's plagued Android test automation for years. His solution lets Calabash test anything on the device, not just your app's UI.

Badoo Apr 5, 2017

Breaking the Limitations of Calabash Android

Rajdeep Varma from Badoo cracked a problem that's plagued mobile test automation for years: Calabash could only test what's inside your app, while Appium couldn't use backdoor methods. His solution? Merge the b...

Badoo Feb 13, 2017

Mobile App Testing Tips and Tricks

Alexander Khozya from Bumble's mobile QA team shares battle-tested strategies that caught critical bugs before millions of users did. His team's approach to testing saved them from costly re-submissions and use...

Badoo Feb 9, 2017

Dockerizing Calabash Android Testing on macOS

Rajdeep Varma from Badoo (now Bumble) tackled a problem that sounds impossible: running Android device tests inside Docker on macOS when Docker can't even see USB devices. The workaround? Brilliantly hacky.

Klarna Jan 12, 2017

Four Load Testing Mistakes Developers Love to Make

Klarna Engineering found that developers' optimism about their own code creates predictable load testing blind spots. Here are the four mistakes that keep biting teams before Black Friday.

Twitch Jan 12, 2017

A/B Testing using Google’s Staged Rollouts

Twitch discovered that Google Play's staged rollouts create biased user groups, breaking standard A/B testing assumptions. Here's how they adapted.

Meta Jul 13, 2016

The Mobile Device Lab at the Prineville Data Center

Facebook built a 2,000-device testing lab inside a data center. The journey from tangled cables to custom EMI racks is a masterclass in scaling mobile performance testing.

Walmart Jun 30, 2016

Android Testing with Mocking

Abha Gupta from Walmart Global Tech tackles one of Android testing's toughest challenges: running mock servers inside your APK for reliable device farm testing. No external dependencies, no flaky tests.

Allegro Mar 2, 2016

Integrating Android Projects with Codecov for Coverage Tracking

Still manually checking code coverage on Android PRs? There's a better way that turns coverage tracking into an automated gatekeeper for your codebase.

Skyscanner Feb 24, 2016

Failing Fast with Reliable and Actionable System-Level Tests

Skyscanner's test suite had a 99% pass rate. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Those false failures were costing hours of productivity and masking real production issues.

Quora Feb 1, 2016

Mobile A/B Testing at Quora

Tommy MacWilliam from Quora reveals how they A/B test mobile UX without waiting weeks for App Store approval. The secret? A hybrid architecture that lets them iterate at web speed.

LinkedIn Jan 27, 2014

Mobile A/B Testing at LinkedIn: How Members Shape Our Apps

LinkedIn ships a single mobile binary but runs dozens of A/B tests simultaneously. Here's how they pulled it off without constant app releases.

Etsy Aug 9, 2013

Etsy's Device Lab

When mobile traffic jumped from 25% to 40% in six months, Etsy knew they had a problem. Their engineers were testing on personal iPhones while users browsed on dozens of different devices.

X (formerly Twitter) May 30, 2013

Mobile App Development: Catching Crashers

Twitter's iOS team shipped beta builds to employees and discovered crashes that would never show up in testing. The culprit? Jailbroken devices and unprefixed Objective-C categories.