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Implementing UI tests on iOS and Android using screenshot comparison tools

Have you ever thought when writing or maintaining UI tests, there must be a better way? Take a look at screenshot tests provided by Google Firebase and Facebook: ios-snapshot-test-case A "snapshot test case" takes a configured UIView or CALayer and uses the renderInContext: method to get an image snapshot of its contents. It compares this snapshot to a "reference image" stored in your source code repository and fails the test if the two images don't match. GitHub Facebook screenshot-tests-for-android Testing rendering for your Android app is hard. How do you prevent visual regressions in paddings and margins and colors from creeping in? Iterating on UI code is hard. How do you quickly verify that your layout or view changes work correctly in all configurations? screenshot-tests-for-android can solve these problems by providing a test framework that checks for visual differences across changes. GitHub Facebook Google Firebase Test Lab Test Lab l

React Native: A year in review

It's been one year since we open-sourced React Native. What started as an idea with a handful of engineers is now a framework being used by product teams across Facebook and beyond. Today at F8 we announced that Microsoft is bringing React Native to the Windows ecosystem, giving developers the potential to build React Native on Windows PC, Phone, and Xbox. It will also provide open source tools and services such as a React Native extension for Visual Studio Code and CodePush to help developers create React Native apps on the Windows platform. In addition, Samsung is building React Native for its hybrid platform, which will empower developers to build apps for millions of SmartTVs and mobile and wearable devices. We also released the Facebook SDK for React Native, which makes it easier for developers to incorporate Facebook social features like Login, Sharing, App Analytics, and Graph APIs into their apps. In one year, React Native has changed the way developers build on every major

HockeyApp goes Azure to provide fabric.io and Cloud CI functionality

HockeyApp presents beta of Mobile Center. Mobile Center is the next generation of HockeyApp. We are very excited about the much more comprehensive solution Mobile Center provides. The changes we are making to Teams helps to modernize HockeyApp into a similar pattern being used in Mobile Center and will allow us to provide a much smoother side by side experience between HockeyApp and Mobile Center. You can log in to Mobile Center today using your existing HockeyApp account and password to give it a try. Mobile Center brings together multiple services, commonly used by mobile developers, into a single, integrated product. You can build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps and easily add backend cloud services to scale your app to millions of users on demand. Mobile Center seems to provide a mixture of fabric.io crashlytics and statistics plus a Cloud CI solution like Travis CI. YouTube HockeyApp

Ministry of Testing: The Mobile Test Pyramid

The flipped testing pyramid has no stable foundation and mobile testing requires lots of manual testing, which is why I created my own mobile test pyramid consisting of four layers including manual and automated steps. The biggest layer of the pyramid is manual testing and forms the strong foundation for every mobile app project, followed by end-to-end testing, beta testing and a top layer comprising unit testing. The grey parts of the pyramid indicate the automated steps and the white parts are the manual testing steps. The beta-testing layer is new to the pyramid but essential to every mobile app project. Ministry of Testing Hands-On Mobile App Testing: A Guide for Mobile Testers and Anyone Involved in the Mobile App Business

Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines and more

JavaScript Support Transpile to JavaScript Use node.js, CommonJS and AMD Import TypeScript Use other libs Coroutines Technically, coroutines are light-weight means of cooperative multi-tasking (very similar to fibers). In other words, they are just much better threads: almost free to start and keep around, extremely cheap to suspend (suspension is for coroutines what blocking is for threads), very easy to compose and customize. We designed coroutines for maximum flexibility: very little is fixed in the language, and very much can be done as a library. The kotlinx.coroutines project features libraries on top of Rx, CompletableFuture, NIO, JavaFx and Swing. Similar libraries can be written for Android and JavaScript. Even many built-in constructs available in other languages can now be expressed as Kotlin libraries. This includes generators/yield from Python, channels/select from Go and async/await from C# JetBrains