Well, today he’s sticking close to home in Boston. Tomorrow he’ll land in London… and before the week is out, he’ll hit Tel Aviv.
Doron starts Wednesday morning off (after his usual 10-mile run, of course!) in London with some tea and networking with friend and colleague, James Whittaker and UK partner, TCL.
Doron is one of five software testing leaders chosen to present in the “How Do You Test That?” track. This track explores unique solutions created to address situations in which automated testing does not suffice.
And on the last leg of his marathon journey, Doron will present at Garage Geeks in Israel on Monday, 3/15 @ 8pm. There, Doron will be taking a deep dive into the topic of Crowdsourcing, and how smart recruiting, training and incentives can turn an unstructured, loosely assembled mob into a unified, professional community.
So, where in the world is Doron this week? Catch him if you can!
Self improvement is a lousy business model. Mobile app developers understand this better than most. For every app to help you lose weight or improve your IQ, there are basically 10x as many to help you drink more, find your nearest trans-fat vendor or change the channel without standing up to get the remote. What a world we live in!
But if sloth and gluttony aren’t your thing, you can rest easy knowing that your vices have also been covered. And so to illustrate, I’ve posted an app for each of the seven sins.
Gluttony: “Happy Hours, is a free application for the iPhone, Android, and the mobile web. With it, you get access to some 15,000 happy hours in 30 different cities around the country. You simply load the app up, tell it where you are (which it can know automatically on the iPhone and Android phones), and let it show you happy hours close by.” (from the washingtonpost.com)
Lust: Girl Zoomer – “This application turns your iPhone camera into a pair of binoculars with 4x zoom, so you can see “the details that other people can only furtively glance at.” (from reuters.com)
Imagine it’s February 2012 and you want to buy movie tickets, research a new restaurant, or check out the weekend weather forecast. Ignoring that the 2012 version of the iPad will probably be free, able to read your mind and enable you transcend time and space, how will you access the mobile web in this not-too-distant future?
Given the explosive growth of mobile apps for iPhone (100,000+), Android (20,000+) and others, it’s easy to assume that no matter what you want to do in the future, there will indeed be “an app for that”.
Not so fast says Richard MacManus (@rrw) over at ReadWriteWeb. MacManus references a recent study by mobile search company, Taptu, which predicts that browser-based mobile sites will win out over mobile apps built specifically for mobile platforms like iPhone and Blackberry. And why does Taptu believe this and what are the implications of this prediction?
Today Apple announced their much anticipated tablet computer – the iPad. With a 9.7 inch screen, the iPad is a supersized iPhone; and it’s already inspiring both love and hate from Apple fans worldwide. Comments so far have ranged from “I want it now” to “I was expecting a lot more than an XL version of the iPhone with no phone capabilities.”
So what does the iPad mean for developers, testers, and Apple users? Here are a few thoughts:
Layout now matters for iPhone developers.
Up until now, an iPhone app was one size fits all. Every iPhone has the same resolution, meaning apps didn’t have to worry about scaling up or down. Not anymore! The iPad is a larger device, but it runs the same iPhone apps. While it can automatically scale up an app designed for the iPhone, the results are kind of ugly. The bigger screen real estate opens a lot of interesting possibilities, but for iPhone developers now is the time you need to start worrying about how your app will look on a larger screen that isn’t 480×320.
New interface means new challenges.
If it’s not enough that the iPad comes in a different size, now developers will also have a slew of new interface widgets to work with. Whether or not those widgets will be available on the iPhone remains to be seen, but whatever the case developers will have their hands full making sure their apps look correct on each platform.
For anyone looking to deploy an app across multiple mobile platforms and a gazillion different handsets, one massive problem awaits them: QA. uTest solves this problem with an army of testers across the world. Crowdsourced QA… Problem solved. (Click here to see Doron’s presentation.)
And that’s not all! Doron was able to connect with multiple partners, prospects and top media outlets, including Mashable’s Ben Parr (@benparr), editor in chief at IntoMobile.com Will Park (@willpark), ReadWriteWeb’s Dana Oshiro (@suzyperplexus), as well as participated in a couple great video interviews with bnetTV’s Michelle Sklar (@bnettv) and GoMo News’ Cian O’Sullivan (@gomonews) which are posted below!
Take a peek at the video interviews below to learn more:
As promised, Google has made the slides and video presentations from GTAC 2009 (Google Test Automation Conference) available on the GTAC website and on YouTube. This year’s GTAC was a huge success! The theme was “Testing for the Web,” and now anyone can watch these leading thinkers discuss test automation strategies, tools, and the challenges desktop and mobile environments present when creating web apps.
Doron was among a select group of speakers chosen to present at GTAC, including Microsoft, smartFOCUS Digital, Sauce Labs and of course Google, where he examined the complimentary role a community of professional testers plays in mobile testing.
Check out Doron’s presentation below! All other presentations can now be seen on YouTube.
Mobile bugs are becoming a bigger and bigger problem, and iPhone users are the latest to be affected by buggy software. Techcrunch reported yesterday that a bug in Safari causes it to consume bandwidth even when it’s closed. The problem arises with the use of Motion JPEG (or M-JPEG), a video standard that is built off of the JPEG images standard. When an iPhone user visits a page with an M-JPEG video, Safari will download continuously, even if the user pushes the Home button to end Safari and go back to the home screen.
What makes this problem really terrible is that many mobile users are charged for their bandwidth usage. Even AT&T users, who are used to having unlimited data plans in the United States, can be charged for data consumption while traveling internationally. That can mean big bills when they get back home.
Cellular service providers aren’t immune either. Networks around the world are struggling to keep up with the data demands of the iPhone, and providers certainly don’t need to deal with unnecessary data consumption caused by broken software. That means companies like AT&T are building out extra infrastructure to support buggy apps – something that costs you and me money in our phone bills.
For the security researchers who uncovered this bug, one hour of testing resulted in $3,000 worth of data charges. That is serious money, and anyone developing mobile apps should take heed. Your broken app can cost enough money to buy 10 iPhones, and that’s a great way to get some bad press. Further proof that mobile application testing needs to catch-up to the standards of web and desktop testing.
When does a bug beat a plane (or in this case, dozens of planes)? CNN has the answer.
Dozens of trans-Atlantic flights from the United Kingdom were delayed Saturday after a glitch in an air traffic control system in Scotland, but the problem was fixed a few hours later and authorities were working to get the flight schedule back to normal.Engineers found a malfunction Saturday morning in the system that controls the airspace across the Atlantic Ocean from Scotland, a statement from the National Air Traffic Services said.
The agency said it had reverted to back-up equipment as engineers worked to fix the system. The agency said the problem did not create a safety issue but could cause delays in flights that could last hours.
We usually associate software glitches with apps that we interact with every day — operating systems, social networks or mobile apps. But it’s easy to forget about the software apps that now run our air traffic control, our automobiles, our hospitals and our financial systems.
By now, it’s painfully obvious to all of us that the market for mobile apps is BOOMING and shows no signs of slowing down. But I was still amazed by the stats/news that back up the hype. Within the past few months, GigaOm has reported the following mind-blowing proof points:
It was 12 short months ago that a little shop (and a big idea) named “uTest” set out to improve the way that companies tested their web, desktop and mobile apps. Since our public launch last August, we’ve had some big-time fun and come a long way:
Completed more than 500 test cycles (not to mention 25,000+ bugs reported).
As we look back on the past year, we want to sincerely thank the customers, testers, investors and media outlets who have participated in our journey and enabled our rapid growth. Here’s to an even more successful 2nd year for all of us!
Well, today he’s sticking close to home in Boston. Tomorrow he’ll land in London… and before the week is out, he’ll hit Tel Aviv.
Self improvement is a lousy business model. Mobile app developers understand this better than most. For every app to help you lose weight or improve your IQ, there are basically 10x as many to help you drink more, find your nearest trans-fat vendor or change the channel without standing up to get the remote. What a world we live in!
Imagine it’s February 2012 and you want to buy movie tickets, research a new restaurant, or check out the weekend weather forecast. Ignoring that the 2012 version of the iPad will probably be free, able to read your mind and enable you transcend time and space, how will you access the mobile web in this not-too-distant future?
Today Apple announced their 
Mobile bugs are becoming a bigger and bigger problem, and iPhone users are the latest to be affected by buggy software. 
operating systems, social networks or mobile apps. But it’s easy to forget about the software apps that now run our air traffic control, our automobiles, our hospitals and our financial systems.
improve the way that companies tested their web, desktop and mobile apps. Since our public launch last August, we’ve had some big-time fun and come a long way:
