Better QA: Testing on Android – Accounting for Device Differences
With the proliferation of many different types of mobile devices – from various smartphones to tablets, to phablets – one significant challenge faced by developers is ensuring that their applications function correctly across all of them. To achieve this goal, app developers and their QA...
Better QA: Using Automated Testing For Mobile
What is Automated Testing? As teams seek to deliver better products and increase internal efficiencies, automated testing is often an option that is tabled. As the name suggests, automated testing is the process of using a program to test websites, applications, and even other programs. Automated testing...
Better QA: The Benefits of Using A Build Machine
What is a Build Machine? Every build that quality assurance tests should be built from the same computer. When your product is ultimately ready for distribution, the build machine is the machine that will be used to build the release version of the app. In this...
Better QA: Why Issue Report Quality is Important
Regardless of project planning and preparation, bugs find their way into the code. This is an inevitability, and it’s why QA exists in the first place. Fixing these bugs can be a very difficult process for a number of reasons, including the volume of the issues,...
Will Apple Watch Popularize Wearable Technologies?
Slated for an April 2015 release, the highly anticipated Apple Watch is Apple’s answer to the flurry of Android Wear watches released in the past six months. Apple has released WatchKit, an extension of the iOS 8.2 SDK which allows developers to begin Apple Watch...
Merging Mobile Payments with Loyalty: Payments Source Interview
Clearbridge CEO Deepak Chopra and CTO Sanjay Malhotra talk Mobile Payments and Customer Loyalty with Payments Source’s David Heun. David Heun’s recent article, “A Technology Shift Could Merge Mobile Payments with Loyalty,” addresses a salient topic that has been on the mind of tech companies, retailers,...
How Long Does it Take to Build a Mobile App Using Agile Scrums?
If you’ve ever considered building a mobile app, you’ve inevitably wondered exactly how long it would take. Many sources claim that it takes about 4 months, with 10 weeks of back-end development, followed by 8 weeks of front-end development. Although this is an estimate based...
NFC: The Ticket to the Mobile Payments Revolution
With mobile payments slated to grow immensely in the next few years, NFC is top of mind. NFC – or Near Field Communication, for the uninitiated – is a technology that enables short-range communication between compatible devices. NFC isn’t new by any stretch of the imagination,...
Clearbridge is now a Heroku Partner!
Clearbridge is excited to announce that we are officially a Heroku partner! This recent development will allow us to provide an even more comprehensive service to our clients. As Clearbridge continues moving toward full stack development to meet client needs across technologies like NodeJS, MongoDB, Redis,...
Chromecast: A Streaming Solution
Ever had a picture or a video that you have wanted to share with a bunch of friends in the same room but didn’t really have the room to have them all huddle around you looking at a tiny screen of a device? The need...