Daniel Knott - Hands-On Mobile App Testing: A Guide for Mobile Testers and Anyone Involved in the Mobile App Business

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A Guide for Mobile Testers
and Anyone Involved
in the Mobile App Business

Daniel Knott

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Knott, Daniel.
Hands-on mobile app testing : a guide for mobile testers and anyone involved in the mobile app
business / Daniel Knott.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-13-419171-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)ISBN 0-13-419171-4
1. Mobile appsTesting. I. Title.
QA76.76.T48K64 2015
006.3dc23
2015009688

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-419171-3
ISBN-10: 0-13-419171-4

Text printed in the United States on recycled paper at RR Donnelley in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
First printing, May 2015

For my wife, Sarah. Thank you
very much for your support and
encouragement while I wrote this book.

Mobile phones have been around since the middle of the 1970s. The devices have of course changed profoundly since then, but the biggest change came in 2007 when Apple presented its first iPhone. From that moment on, the mobile smartphone market has known only one directionUP! Eight years later, touch devices such as smartphones and tablets have become ubiquitous. More than two million apps are available for download in the stores of the biggest vendors, and this number is still rising. There are apps for every aspect of our lives, ranging from photos and music, to office applications and games, and on to fitness and health. But what about the quality of those apps? Are they reliable, trustworthy, easy to use, well developed, and tested?

. Numbers are from June 2014.

This book is a practical guide to mobile testing for anyone who works in the mobile business, but it is especially aimed at mobile testers.