Mobile Testing on Xamarin with James Montemagno
How do you test your mobile applications? James Montemagno talk to Carl and Richard about various testing approaches for mobile apps. James talks about the Xamarin Test Cloud with thousands of different devices you can test against... for a fee of course. This leads to a conversation about automating UI testing, testing against local devices and only going to the cloud when you're ready to test on a larger diversity of phones. James also talks about the broadening range of devices out there, not just phones but tablets, wearables and IoT. Everything needs testing, and there are tools to make it easier!
Guests:
James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager on the Xamarin team at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He can be found on Twitter @JamesMontemagno, blogs code regularly on his personal blog http://www.MotzCod.es, and on the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict at http://mergeconflict.fm.
Links:
- Generating Data Type Classes from XML https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh371548(v=vs.110).aspx
- Xamarin Test Cloud http://xamarin.com/test-cloud
- Xamarin.UITest https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.UITest
- Android Dashboard https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
- Components on Xamarin http://components.xamarin.com/
- PlugIns for Xamarin on NuGet http://www.nuget.org/packages?q=plugins+for+xamarin
- Monkey.Robotics https://github.com/xamarin/Monkey.Robotics