PortableApps can save your Boss’s conference presentation
nov 30,
2018
PortableApps allows you to present your content anywhere at anytime! PortableApps makes it easy for you to take required applications and content with you no matter where you go so that you can make the conference presentation successfully. Imagine, The Boss has an important conference presentation next week. Or maybe they have to deliver a […]
Utilizing Push Notifications in a Progressive Web App (PWA)
jul 24,
2018
A push notification is gentle nudge from your website to re-engage with a user by delivering a short message that pops up on the user’s device. The message can be triggered locally by the open application or can be “pushed” from the server to the user even when the app is not running. A service […]
Beware the Trojans
mar 3,
2016
When I taught computer programming classes in the 1980s, many first=time C programmers would write a Trojan login program for fun. They’d simulate the login prompt (no Windows back then). I gave a bit more info about this when I first wrote about Trojans on thus blog. Trojans are a form of social engineering: the […]
Android User Interface Testing on Amazon’s Device Farm Part 2
okt 15,
2015
In part 1 of this post I looked at how to create Robotium instrumentation tests for an Android application so that it could be tested on Amazon’s Device Farm. At the end of that post, we had two apk files: the application and the tests. The process of testing on the AWS device farm is […]
Android User Interface Testing with AWS Device Farm – Part 1
okt 8,
2015
I often get asked about automated testing of user interfaces of Android applications. Amazon released a service on AWS called Device Farm to support user interface (UI) testing, this seems to be a good time to take a look. UI testing can be immensely frustrating due to it’s inherent fragility. It often seems that as […]