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June 2022

The Best Cross Browser Testing Alternatives in 2022

There are plenty of cloud-based software testing platforms that give you real test environments to test your website or apps against multiple browser/OS/device combinations. One such platform is Cross Browser Testing. Finding an alternative to Cross Browser Testing is finding a test lab that simply does it better. In today’s article, you’ll get to know about Testsigma alongside four other cross-browser testing alternatives that can meet your organization’s specific needs –

All about test automation: best practices with Angie Jones | Mobile DevOps is a Thing! Podcast

Angie Jones worked as Head of Developer Relations at Applitools, a new generation test automation platform powered by visual AI. On top of that, she is the founder and Executive Director of Test Automation University. She’s previously worked as a Senior Software Developer at Twitter and regularly gives talks about Javascript, software development, and testing best practices.

5 Best Worksoft Alternatives [2022]

When it comes to automation testing, Worksoft Certify has impressed thousands of users. However, this automation platform has also been chided for its inability to work properly with web-based applications and for not being open-source. If Worksoft doesn’t work for your business, it’s time to start looking for a smart and efficient alternative. In this post, we list some of the best Worksoft alternatives.

Try Apple Silicon M1 on Bitrise for your iOS CI/CD | Bitrise Feature Updates

Apple silicon in the cloud, built for continuous integration and delivery. Fully virtualized, scalable from zero to dozens of concurrencies in seconds, and faster than ever. Open beta available to everyone on Bitrise, today. Thank you for watching! Please feel free to comment your thoughts below. Build better mobile applications, faster! Save time, money, and developer frustration with fast, flexible, and scalable mobile CI/CD that just works.

Building mobile infrastructure with Russell Stephens Mobile DevOps is a Thing! Podcast

Russell Stephens was the Mobile Infrastructure Lead at Compass, a company that builds software for real estate agents. They have two tracks for mobile developers: feature-based roles for helping the product teams iterate on specific feature sets and a dedicated team for mobile infrastructure, where developers are responsible for maintaining and iterating on the mobile platform.

Build secure mobile applications with Anastasiia Voitova | Mobile DevOps is a Thing! Podcast

In this episode, we talked about all aspects of app security: the benefits of integrating end-to-end security checks, zero knowledge and zero trust architectures, and cryptography best practices. We’ve seen in the past few years that DevSecOps is on the rise and sophisticated mobile teams take app security very seriously. However, there’s still a large gap between these teams and those who take it less seriously, and often see security as the necessary evil.

App Performance Monitoring with Rasmus Larsson | Mobile DevOps is a Thing! Podcast

Rasmus is the Product Strategy Director at Pulselive, a Sony company that has been crafting digital experiences to connect teams, leagues, and sports federations to their fans for over a decade. The mobile team’s main motivation is to continuously build the best possible sports apps with the best UI, the best UX, built on the best code. They are doing all these things for an impressive list of clients, including AFL, Premier League, or Liverpool FC.

5 Best Leapwork Alternatives to Simplify your Test Automation

Test automation tools like Leapwork help your business focus on delivery, end-user experience, and innovation while reducing dependency on the developer. Today we’ll be reviewing these best-rated test automation tools that are just as good, if not better than Leapwork for your testing needs. You can create, execute and run all types of functional and non-functional tests for your IT enterprise with their help. Let’s start, shall we?

Dissecting Automated Functional Testing - How to Learn Automated Testing in 2022?

Functional testing feels like the bane of one’s existence when things are running on a deadline. No matter the codebase or structure, there’s just so much to do. It also takes a ton of time if you’re doing it manually, and the inefficiency is an atrocity. As one of the final steps before deployment (usually before the non-functional tests start), we have to test everything relating to the functional requirements of the software.

The era of Low-code/No-code platforms: What you should know?

We all are witnessing the growth and evolution of low-code/no-code platforms. Few might still be confused about what this is all about. Don’t feel intimidated, you are not alone, many people are unfamiliar with these terms. This blog will give a gist of it to understand the current revolution of low-code and no-code platforms/tools. We can see more in detail about the history, features, merits, and demerits and how can you adapt and start using them in your organizations.

How to begin in sprint automation: A tactical guide

Test automation has undergone a steady evolution since its inception. While the process of writing test cases to test the software remains the same, the “how” part keeps changing. Sometimes, we like to perform simple and plain test script development as we did in the 90s using a spreadsheet. Sometimes, we record our test cases and run them through programming languages as we did in the 2010s using Selenium.

How to Inspect Elements in Chrome

If you use the internet frequently, there are very few chances that you have not come across Google Chrome. By this statement, I can easily cover those people who have not even used this browser or their mode of internet surfing is a different one. So, even if I am on Microsoft Edge and I search for a query or open Google’s home page, I am forced just to check out this fantastic browser once: This is a common scenario whether you have Chrome installed or not.

New frameworks announced at WWDC 2022

If you yearn to write more declarative syntax like SwiftUI and level up your data visualization game, Swift Charts is made for you! Apple introduced a new framework that helps you easily work with charts and create gorgeous visualizations. The chart can be anything — from a line or bar chart to something advanced like a range plot, stream graph, heat map, or even a vector field plot.

We Tried 9 Best Browserling Alternatives for Cross-Browser Testing - Here're the Winners

One of the crucial tasks for web developers is compatibility testing. The thing about a web page is that it might work perfectly fine on a desktop. But when you try to load it through mobile devices, things can look out of place. Sometimes, the site might even be finicky in different web browsers. Well, that is precisely where the Browserling steps in. But to comprehensively test websites, you might not want to settle with the feature and pricing of this automated testing tool.

WWDC 2022 Day 2 Recap - Bitrise Roundtable

Every year in San Jose, Apple Inc. holds the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple uses the conference to showcase its new software and technologies. Attendees can participate in hands-on labs with Apple engineers and attend in-depth sessions on a wide range of topics. We decided to do a recap of the first day's most important happenings with the team!

We Tried 5 Best Puppeteer Alternatives [in-Depth Comparison]

You’ve hit a dead-end using Puppeteer as your web-automation module. Well, you’ll be glad to know that many people like you are looking for better alternatives. Puppeteer has been famous ever since Google introduced it. Since the Chrome DevTools team is responsible for developing this module, it works seamlessly with a headless Chrome browser without any issues.

We Tried 6 Best LambdaTest Alternatives for Test Automation | Here're the Winners

LambdaTest is an excellent software testing platform, but it might not be for everyone. If you’re wondering if it’s for you, worry not – you’re not alone. If you’re considering automation testing tools other than LambdaTest, you’re in the right place. We researched many potential alternatives to LambdaTest, and it’s safe to say that there are some really good options.

CircleCI vs Jenkins: What's the Difference?

Jenkins can support multiple jobs by multi-threading, whereas CircleCI has built support for parallelism, which project settings can achieve. Your deployment pipeline is the most crucial part of your software delivery lifecycle. As you keep launching new software products and updates, the last thing you would want is to manually intervene in an otherwise automated SDLC. Automation of build and release code– continuous integration and delivery have become mainstream for enterprise solutions.

Scan your builds for vulnerabilities by using mobsfscan with Codemagic

With the increase in malware attacks on devices, engineers are putting more effort into ensuring the products they build are not vulnerable to these attacks. One such tool that can help mobile engineers reduce vulnerabilities is Mobile Security Framework (MobSF).

Create 2D games quickly and easily with Flutter Flame

Flutter enables you to develop applications for platforms such as Android, iOS, desktop, and the web from a single codebase. As a multiplatform UI toolkit, the Flutter team is dedicated to enabling all kinds of developers to quickly build and release applications. Game developers, for instance, are now able to build beautiful game apps without worrying about performance, load times, and app sizes. This tutorial will provide you with an introduction to the Flutter Flame game engine.

We Tried 5 Best BrowserStack Alternatives - Here're the Winners

BrowserStack is a cloud testing vendor offering mobile devices, tablets, and browsers for testing. Although it has received a lot of popularity, users haven’t been impressed by most of its features. From slow service to high price, users have been disappointed with BrowserStack for quite some time. If you’re one of them and you’re interested in switching to something new but effective, we’ve got you covered.

The 6 Best Saucelabs Alternative for Test Automation

Sauce Labs is terrific, but it also comes with a few limitations. Today, we will explore some of the most well-regarded Sauce Labs competitors. We will have a brief look at what these Sauce Labs alternatives can do and how they compare against Sauce Labs. If you are interested in this, don’t stop scrolling!

We tired 6 Best Appium Alternatives [In-depth Comparison]

Appium is a renowned automated testing tool for running tests on mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows. As far as open-source mobile test automation tools go, the alternatives are limited, but they exist. We have found some of the top Appium alternatives that will meet your automation testing requirements just as well, if not significantly better than Appium. Let’s check them out here.

Android builds now faster than ever Bitrise Feature Updates

For our Linux machines, we've just doubled vCPUs from 2 to 4, from 4 to 8 and from 8 to 16. and we’ve also doubled memory on all Linux compute options, from 8 to 16 GB, from 16 to 32 GB and from 32 to 64 GB. This means your Android builds will now run on average 30% faster, using fewer credits per build than before.

Setting up CI/CD for a Godot game

TL;DR: Setting up CI/CD pipelines for games made with the Godot engine is quite simple, thanks to the fact that it’s easy to work with Godot using the command-line interface. This means we can quickly install Godot on a Codemagic build machine and automate the export of Godot games, though we’ll need to specify some configurations as well. Let’s see how to automate Godot game projects! These past few months, I’ve talked about using Codemagic to build and publish Unity games.

WWDC 2022 Day 1 Recap - Bitrise Roundtable

Every year in San Jose, Apple Inc. holds the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple uses the conference to showcase its new software and technologies. Attendees can participate in hands-on labs with Apple engineers and attend in-depth sessions on a wide range of topics. We decided to do a recap of the first day's most important happenings with the team!

We Tried the Top 10 Smartbear Alternative [in-Depth Analysis]

Smartbear is a powerful and robust automated GUI testing tools for web, mobile, and desktop applications. However, we wanted more from the automated testing tool that we were relying on. That is where we started looking for a Smartbear alternative. And after tons of head-to-head comparisons and testing, we picked a couple of Smartbear competitors that are worth the try. Want to know all about the competitors and alternatives we are talking about here? Stick till the end!

6 Mobile Marketing Tools You Need to Consider for Your Business

We live in a mobile-first world, and having a mobile marketing strategy is becoming an imperative for SMBs. If one of your goals is to win over the mobile audience, inspire mobile purchases, and boost brand visibility and awareness on mobile devices, then you need to start creating your 2022 mobile marketing strategy. That said, trying to build a winning mobile marketing strategy manually is a waste of time, effort, and ultimately, money.

SaaS in 60 - Qlik Sense Mobile Improvements (May 2022)

We have refined the sheet navigation experience to take advantage of native mobile gestures. Users can now navigate to individual sheets by simply swiping the sheet names across the top or by tapping the current tab along with a clear delineation between private and public sheets. Sheets in the app will display as tiles in the appropriate section for easier identification and navigation. While in a sheet you can access a new landscape mode simply by rotating your device to a horizontal position allowing all visualization objects to achieve the best layout possible – similar to the browser-based display. This mode is also supported for individual chart objects when put in full screen mode. We have also improved navigation to other apps and sheets linked from within app by opening them within Qlik Sense mobile instead of a separate web browser.