GTAC 2013: When Bad Things Happen to Good Applications

http://g.co/gtac2013 Slides: http://goo.gl/8epF0 Minal Mishra, Netflix The boom of mobile and tablet computing has inundated the software industry with application development platforms. Developing consumer applications on computing platforms have their own magical experience for the end users. Consumer facing software companies always attempt to put their best foot forward when they develop an application for these platforms. However, the biggest challenge in application development only begins after companies roll out the first version of the application. Consumers and the software companies want the latest features and functionalities out of development as soon as possible with the highest quality. This leads to constant code churn in every layer of the stack. We, UI automation engineers, build a variety of detection systems to catch application issues sooner than later. In this talk I will share some of our challenges and successes behind one such detection system, that helped find problems outside the application layer but still adversely impacted the user experience.