Automated Acceptance Testing or: How I stopped worrying and trusted the tests

Posted on in Speaking Testing Programming

This month at Triangle CocoaHeads in Durham, I stepped away from being just the organizer and did a talk on automated acceptance testing with Calabash. This is a topic I’m really excited to learn more about and am constantly trying to become a better tester. I first learned about Calabash when seeing a video of one of the blitz talks from NSConference about it. I started using it on one project and it seemed to do a nice job.

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Over the Air Beta Testing for iOS Apps

Posted on in iOS Testing

As an enterprise iOS developer, I’ve had the wonders of over-the-air installation for my apps since iOS 4 dropped. I’ve enjoyed it so much so that I’ve pushed to make sure all our users have moved to iOS 4 (not the only reason, of course). So instead of sending a user an IPA file, they simply browse to your site from the device itself. A few months ago, Hockey was announced that brought a similar workflow to beta testers of non-enterprise apps.

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