Name: Shifting Left from Anywhere: Testing Mobile Apps Faster with a Dispersed Team
Start: 2023-11-09T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-11-09T17:00:30.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Kobiton is a powerful mobile device cloud that allows companies to manage the devices they own and access real public cloud devices for efficient, comprehensive test coverage. Simple to use, easy to access from anywhere, and highly flexible, Kobiton minimizes costs while increasing productivity, so businesses can get apps to market sooner. The mobile device cloud platform offers centralized testing history and insights to improve collaboration across teams, access to the most in-demand mobile devices to supplement existing inventory and significant cost savings. Visit kobiton.com to learn more. 

Mobile QA teams are constantly looking for smart ways to Shift-Left responsibly, though long test cycles and flaky tests prevent them from doing so efficiently. Learn how AI can achieve your Shift-Left ambitions by auto-executing only the tests impacted by developers and stopping flaky tests from breaking builds for faster and cleaner feedback loops.

Leveraging Risk-based Testing in the Age of AI

Explore a 5-step checklist for streamlining mobile app development, testing, and delivery. In this session, Amit Pate, CEO of Total Performance will be joined by Zach Sergio, Head of Sales, to share best practices to help you enhance app performance & reliability, prepare for real-world network conditions, and confidently deploy high quality releases. You’ll also learn how integrating Kobiton into your DevOps toolchain can serve as a vital part of your enterprise’s mobile strategy.

Elevating Mobile App Quality: 5 Essential Steps for Optimal App Performance

Automation is no longer optional when it comes to testing. So why are so many organizations struggling with moving from manual to automated testing, especially with mobile apps? Join our podcast-style interview where Emily Thomas, an automation expert, reveals her recipe for successfully helping organizations accelerate their move from manual to automated testing.

Accelerating Automation: How to Fast-Track Mobile Testing Maturity

This session delves into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 within the software development community, with considerations for mobile accessibility. Helen will discuss the challenges companies face in incorporating accessibility into their DevOps cycles. Helen will share insights on viewing accessibility guidelines as a growth opportunity that can lead to improved products and happier customers. The session will cover what accessibility means, how it can impact you and the tools needed to test for accessibility on mobile devices. This talk aims to empower attendees to drive positive change, deliver inclusive products, and stay ahead of compliance shifts.

Accessibility and Mobile Testing Tools

In CI/CD pipelines, automated testing services validate the functionality of apps across hundreds of real-world mobile devices and OS versions. However, automated testing services can also leverage methods and tools that violate cybersecurity policies or that cybersecurity professionals find problematic and dangerous, including emulators, virtualization, resigning, debugging, dual spaces, Magisk, and more. Once protections are added to a mobile app, security features detect these methods and tools, and the resulting cyber defense may prevent testers from using parts of these testing services. Join Karen to learn how you can eliminate the need to test protected and unprotected builds separately, reduce complexity when testing protected mobile apps in automated environments, and automate testing of mobile apps that are protected from the same tools/methods used by testing services.

Appdome: Streamline Cloud Testing of Cybersecurity Features in Mobile Apps

Join Alex Martins, VP of Strategy at Katalon, for an enlightening session on how AI can revolutionize your testing. You'll discover how groundbreaking AI projects tailored for mobile platforms can transform your testing strategies. We'll examine industry trends and share practical case studies that highlight how AI is optimizing mobile testing for efficiency and accuracy. You'll leave with a comprehensive understanding of how AI can supercharge your mobile testing.

Key Takeaways:

Learn how AI-driven testing is evolving and how you can harness its power to streamline your mobile testing.

Gain insights into real-world applications of AI in mobile testing so you can see how it can enhance your test automation and precision.

Discover actionable strategies for integrating AI into your existing mobile testing frameworks so that you can maximize its benefits.

Understand emerging AI trends in mobile testing and how to prepare for future developments, including the adoption of private, domain-specific LLMs within your enterprise.

Attend this session to transform your testing with AI and stay ahead of the curve in mobile testing innovation.

Katalon: Revolutionizing Testing with Generative AI

Join Martin Kowalewski, who leads the Global Sales Engineering team at Applitools, as he discusses the vital role of flawless UI/UX in today's fast-paced app development landscape, ensuring success across diverse devices and platforms. This challenge has become more complex with the rapid evolution of mobile technologies and user expectations. To navigate this complexity, this session will cover the latest trends in mobile development and testing, highlighting the transformative changes brought about by AI. 

Explore the integration of Kobiton into the Applitools Intelligent Testing Platform, forming a powerful solution that empowers customers to meet their comprehensive testing needs. By harnessing the power of AI, this integration offers a complete solution for continuous testing across all platforms.

Applitools: Leveraging AI for Mobile App Testing on Real Devices

The mobile technology landscape is rapidly evolving, demanding high-quality app development across various platforms. Traditional testing solutions, burdened by outdated technologies and manual processes, often result in significant delays and degraded app performance. This session introduces a transformative mobile test management approach that leverages real-device testing, AI-generated scripting, and deep performance insights. Join Erin Baily, Director of Product Management, and Frank Moyer, CTO of Kobiton, as they discuss:

The Magnitude of Mobile: Understanding the impact of constant technological changes on app development.

Traditional Test Management Solutions: Limitations of current practices and the necessity for innovation.

Emergence of Mobile Test Management: An in-depth look at new methodologies enhancing test management and analysis.

Demo: Live demonstration of the new mobile test management capabilities.

Sneak Peek of The Future: Preview upcoming innovations and future directions in mobile testing.

Explore how these advancements streamline testing processes, providing deeper insights and significantly improving mobile app quality and development efficiency.

Breaking Barriers in Mobile Test Management

Join Sagar Mahendrakar, Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, as he explores the critical role of Quality Assurance (QA) for achieving superior software performance and reliability. In this session, Sagar will address the cultural and organizational challenges of embedding QA practices within DevOps, emphasizing the need to foster collaboration, dismantle silos, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement. He will also highlight the importance of toolchain integration and skills development to support effective QA processes. Learn from Red Hat's successful strategies to navigate these challenges and enhance software delivery in today's dynamic technology environments.

Ensuring Quality in DevOps Culture

Join Nikita Limani, Sr. Test Engineer at Medtronic, as she explores the evolution of quality assurance in software development. In this talk, Nikita discusses the shift from quality being the sole responsibility of a specific team to a collective organizational effort. She will highlight the critical role of test engineers in fostering a culture where quality is integrated at every stage of development. The session will cover strategies for test engineers to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to prioritize and maintain quality throughout, ultimately enhancing software products and customer satisfaction. Join us to learn how to empower every team member to champion excellence.

Empowering Quality: Why Quality is Everyone's Responsibility in Mobile Testing

Join our expert panel moderated by Joe Colantonio, founder of Test Guild, where we will explore strategic approaches for securing executive support and driving automation maturity within your organization. Chris Huff, CTO of Rent.com, will share how to align automation with core business objectives, providing the executive stakeholder perspective. Li Rajaraman, Engineering Leader at WeightWatchers, will provide insights into managing change effectively, drawn from her experience leading a global engineering team. Jon Robinson, Chief Storyteller at Nekst IT, will offer techniques on crafting compelling business cases to garner further investment in automation. This session is designed for Quality Leaders seeking practical advice on navigating organizational dynamics and enhancing automation adoption. Learn how to maintain stakeholder support through significant organizational changes and accelerate your automation journey.

Championing Automation: How Quality Leaders Can Drive Organizational Support

Join this podcast-style interview with Nanda Kishore T, Uber's Director of Program Management, as he delves into the transformative journey towards Mobile Excellence, sharing key insights and strategies for delivering magical user experiences.

Mobile Excellence at Uber

Ready to become a Mobile Testing Master? The path towards mobile excellence can be a challenging one, but with the right tools, knowledge, and support you can create amazing mobile experiences. The process begins by understanding where you are today, and knowing what the path forward entails. Transform your organization’s mobile testing and development teams into efficient, revenue driving machines.

Join us, as we discuss the makeup of the mobile maturity scale, and gain the skills to push you and your team to the next level. Create meaningful strategies and targeted goals to help accelerate delivery and continuous testing of mobile apps, ultimately making users happy.

The Journey to Mobile Excellence Is Easier Than You Think!

Join us for an exclusive webinar unveiling the key findings from Kobiton's latest study on the state of mobile app development in 2024. Our research reveals a significant surge in the adoption of generative AI tools by mobile app developers, driven by the need for faster updates and competitive advantages.

We'll explore the trends shaping mobile app delivery in 2024:
• AI Adoption Surge: Discover the rising trend of developers and testers leveraging AI tools for enhanced productivity.
• Impact of Slow App Delivery: Understand the financial repercussions, with 75% reporting at least $100,000 in losses due to slow release cycles, and strategies to mitigate this risk.
• The Role of Automation: Understand how QA professionals view automation as the key to accelerating mobile software delivery cycles and mitigating challenges.

Don't miss this concise exploration of the future of mobile app development! Register now to stay ahead of the curve.

2024 State of Mobile App Delivery, Test Automation, and AI

Regardless of where you are in your mobile testing journey, having the right knowledge and tools in place can help you test smarter, release faster, and keep users happy. In this recorded session from our recent Mobile Testing & Experience Summit, Kobiton’s very own Billy Cabrera shares some of his own best practices and a few items that may go overlooked but can be vital to a quality end user experience.

Topics discussed in this webinar include:
- Accelerating manual testing, aka using a tool that won’t slow you down
- Testing across multiple devices to ensure your user base is covered
- Monitoring the app’s impact on a device with tracking things like battery drain
Accessibility!!
- And how automation can help all of the above

Making the Most of Your Tech Stack: Tips & Tricks for Better Mobile Testing

Mobile gaming is a massive segment of the mobile landscape, and unlike some of their application counterparts, testing those games can be quite the endeavor. As players’ now expect flawless user experiences regardless of their device of choice, what are game developers to do?

Join Shane Evans from Kobiton partner GameDriver as he discusses the challenges that face mobile game developers and testers, strategies to overcome those challenges, and some modern tools that empower users to automate and optimize their mobile game testing process.

Mobile Testing for Gaming at Scale

When talking with those in the mobile app space there tends to be a common theme or initiative among development and testing teams: release faster to stay ahead of the competition. At face value this seems simple enough, but dive deeper and you’ll notice things like security requirements, complex code bases, and even access to real devices makes shifting left and releasing faster difficult.

To help make faster releases a reality, we invited some of our friends from Appdome and Appsurify to join a panel discussion about the challenges of mobile testing, how the right tools can help speed up app delivery without getting in the way, and provide some real world examples the help you put this new knowledge to work.

This session was originally recorded at the Mobile Testing & Experience Summit in October. The first few minutes has some background noise that does go away.

Accelerating Testing for Faster, More Reliable Releases

In this broadcast from the recent Mobile Testing & Experience Summit, Joe will share the key themes from his new book, Automation Awesomeness, that he found after interviewing over five hundred top-notch Test Engineers in the industry. Discover the secrets to success with automation testing, and your career while getting actionable advice that you can start using right away to achieve testing excellence.

Automation Awesomeness: 260 Actionable Affirmations to Improve Testing Skills

We all know about shifting left in the QA world, but is it really possible to test sooner in the software development lifecycle with a globally dispersed team? Especially in the world of mobile app development where access to real devices is a must for the testing process, it may seem like the answer to this is a resounding “no.” Fortunately, this isn’t the case!

Join Li Rajaraman, Sr. Manager of QA from WeightWatchers as she sits down for a chat with Kobiton’s Matt Klassen. In this session Li will discuss the evolution of her QA team, and how they managed to release higher quality apps faster from anywhere in the world.

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