Mobile User Experience for SaaS products – Challenges as SaaS goes Mobile

by sachin.kalra on March 8, 2010

Why is the mobile device important?
75% of U.S. workers are predicted to be true mobile sometime in 2011. 23% use mobile device more often than their laptops to access internet. This increased data usage has forced wireless companies like ATT to invest $10 bn in infrastructure. Even Jim Cramer’s hot picks for “mobile tsunami” include mobile tower operator companies. So [...]

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InfoStretch Participates INDIASOFT 2010 at Jaipur, India

by Premal Dave on March 3, 2010

InfoStretch Mobile, QA and SaaS Enterprise Services & Solutions

InfoStretch Exhibits @ INDIASOFT 2010,

Stall No. 69,  March 10th to March 12th,
B.M. Birla Planetarium, Jaipur, Rajasthan
InfoStretch announces its participation at INDIASOFT 2010 International IT Exhibition and Conference to be held From, March 10th to March 12th 2010.
InfoStretch will be stationed at Stall no 69 at Jaipur, Rajasthan, [...]

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Using Hudson as Selenium Grid for Continuous Integration

February 28, 2010

In my last post about Hudson integration with Selenium RC,I talked about how to use Hudson to drive your Selenium RC tests.This configuration would work fine in most scenarios.However this is not a optimized configuration if you want to take advantage of executing your tests in parallel.For e.g if you have two machines in your [...]

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Mobile Web Application Test Automation

February 25, 2010

There are two approaches to develop and deliver mobile applications
-Web centric apps which can run in any mobile browser
-Apps developed for a specific platform like IPhone
Let’s look at each of these approaches before going into automation challenges, tools and strategy for mobile apps.
Before introduction of IPhone App Store, mobile phone applications were limited to native [...]

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10 Questions answered about the Windows Phone 7

February 18, 2010

1. What is Windows Phone 7?
It is Microsoft’s attempt at creating a mashup of an OS-Launch (Android) and a phone release (the iPhone). It focuses on widgets or ‘hubs’ (as they put it) instead of apps like we have on the iPhone
2. Is it the Zune Phone?
Not really. You have a Zune ‘hub’ on [...]

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Lost business of “Missed Call”

February 17, 2010

Lost business of “Missed Call”
We all read about the India Mobile story; its growth, its SMS, its Arpu, its 550 million users and now its new operators. Last year a few more new licenses were released and this led to DOCOMO, Telenor, and Etisalat entering the market. Currently these new operators have set the market [...]

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Selenium UI test automation with zero infrastructure cost!!

February 16, 2010

Preface:
There are several UI testing tools available in the market like SilkTest,QTP, Selenium etc. and test automation engineers are using those tools depending on the requirement. Among these tools, Selenium is a popular open source UI automation tool. Now for some projects, customer asks us to run the automation test against different browsers on different [...]

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Sauce Labs:First Impressions

February 10, 2010

Few days back I got a chance to play with Sauce Labs,thought I would share my experience as there is very little material floating around related to Sauce Labs
To give a little background,I already had a small set of Selenium RC tests in Java and my goal was to see what’s Sauce Labs all about.I [...]

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Integrating Selenium tests with Hudson CI

February 3, 2010

For most folks the challenge is that their CI system lives in some Unix environment and Selenium tests need to run on a Windows machine.To get this working I did the following
My goal was to
a)Have the test drive and report selenium tests from a single interface
b)Ability to run it on different machines with various browsers
I [...]

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Difference between Usability and User Experience

February 3, 2010

The growth of Web Applications, these days, is driven entirely by 2 main factors: Usability and User Experience. The whole idea of Web 2.0 was to provide web services and let the developers have their imagination run with the above mentioned 2 most important success factors.
Usability refers to the ease with which a user can [...]

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