Mobile Sensors – The Game Changer in Mobile App Development

In today’s world of rapidly evolving mobile technologies, sensors are playing a key role in mobile app design and development. Present-day devices have mobile sensors embedded within their hardware and provide an inspiration to app developers for creating innovative mobile apps. Mobile sensors have certain special features that enable mobile devices to detect motion, touch, light and a user’s environmental conditions. Today’s mobile app

AutoIt – Simplify Windows Desktop Application Automation

AutoIt is a scripting language that helps developers to automate Windows desktop applications. Similar to other scripting language, it allows developers to generate scripts / automate desktop applications, which saves a lot of time for developers. So what makes this scripting language stand apart? AutoIt makes use of simulated keystrokes / mouse coordinates of the window/screen, which is quite difficult to achieve (with precision) in

How to Configure SonarQube for C# .NET Project

SonarQube is one of the most popular open source static code analysis tools available in the market. It helps software professionals to measure the code quality and identify non-compliant code. The SonarQube community is very active and provides continuous upgrades, new plug-ins and customizations. It is a good practice to frequently run SonarQube on the source code to fix the code quality violations and

Factors to Consider for Hybrid App Development

Many enterprises are often disillusioned with the process of creating standalone mobile applications i.e. creating mobile apps across the three main platforms, Android, iOS and Windows. The process of creating mobile apps individually for each platform can be challenging in terms of design, development and maintenance. As a result, many enterprises are looking to create hybrid apps, where they can use a single codebase and run it across multiple platforms. For hybrid app development, JavaScript,

Mobility in Healthcare – Why it Matters?

Healthcare industry constantly faces the challenge of providing quality healthcare to patients, while complying with the strictest of privacy safeguards. The journey of a patient usually starts with an initial diagnosis, then followed by a treatment, which often involves transfers between acute care, post-acute care, ambulatory care and home healthcare. If patient’s medical records are not transferred timely at each and every stage, it can have a detrimental effect on

Getting the Most Out of Mobile App Analytics

Enterprises have been using mobile apps in order to engage and interact with their consumers and empower employees. In case of the web, analytics platforms are widely utilized to track the application usage etc, whereas in case of mobile apps the usage is abysmally low. The downside of this is that it makes it difficult for mobile app developers to effectively track the usage of mobile apps in terms of downloads, revenue

6 Ways Mobile Insurance Apps Benefit Insurance Providers

In the past few decades, the advancements in mobile technology has changed the way insurance providers operate. Owing to the convenience and portability offered by mobile apps of insurance service providers, they have gained popularity. From mobile insurance apps that allow consumers claim damages instantly to enterprise productivity apps that keep insurance agents connected to their offices round the clock. Mobile insurance apps are playing an important

Key Challenges Faced by Mobile App Developers

These are exciting times for mobile app developers and companies involved in mobile application development. Due to the ubiquity and popularity of smartphones among consumers, there is an increasing demand for mobile application development. Similar to any other software development activity, even mobile app development has its own set of issues and challenges. Nowadays, the expectations of mobile app users have increased manifold and

Code Review Checklist – To Perform Effective Code Reviews

In my previous blog post, we discussed about “10 Simple Code Review Tips for Effective Code Reviews”. Now, let’s take this topic further and explore the code review checklist, which would help to perform effective code reviews to deliver best quality software.  This code review checklist also helps the code reviewers and software developers (during self code review) to gain expertise in the code

Windows Application Automation Testing Using Coded UI

In my previous blog, I put forth a strong case for adopting Coded UI Test (CUIT) for automation testing. As a result, I have been receiving a lot of comments asking how to automate ‘Windows Applications’ using Coded UI Test. With this in mind and to also provide readers an insight on Windows Application Automation Testing, I have written this blog. Using Coded UI Test, software testers can