The New Testing Battlefields: Mobile, IoT, and Beyond

Deck for a webinar hosted by Progress software. Panelists Jim Holmes, Richard Bradshaw, Daniel Knott, and Iliyan Panchev discuss testing outside "traditional" web and desktop applications.

Transcript

1. The New Testing
   Battlefields
   Mobile, IoT and Beyond
   

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   Agenda
   §  What’s Interesting and Taking Off?
   §  Critical Differences from Web and Desktop
   §  Testing: Context of Usage
   §  Testing: Technical Aspects
   §  Closing
   §  Q&A
   

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   Today’s Panelists
   Richard Bradshaw
   Speaker, Trainer
   Daniel Knott
   Senior Tester
   Xing Android
   Jim Holmes
   Executive Consultant
   Pillar Technology
   Iliyan Panchev
   Product Owner
   Telerik Test Studio
   

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   What’s Interesting and Taking Off?
   §  Mobile’s continuing to explode
   §  Embedded systems
   •  Toasters (appliances)
   •  Tractors (GPS, agricultural systems)
   •  Medicine
   §  Internet of Things
   

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   Differences from Web / Desktop
   §  Environment is vastly more complex
   •  Power
   •  Resource constraints
   •  Infrequent updates – or never update
   §  Risk is dramatically different
   •  Line of business cost
   •  Security
   •  Interdependent systems
   •  Death
   

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   Testing: Context of Usage
   §  Expectations of availability and speed
   §  Mobility
   •  Moving about networks
   •  Differing interruptions
   §  Varied user inputs
   §  NO user inputs!
   

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   Testing: Technical Aspects
   §  APIs
   §  Data
   §  Tooling (or lack thereof!)
   §  How to model system?
   •  Breaking in to pieces
   •  Effective coverage
   

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   Closing Comments
   

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