The Messages View – Online Communicators Made Easy Our objective was to create a universal messages view for all types of communicator messaging apps. This idea was flagged by our team leader during one of our brainstorming sessions. What quickly caught our attention when we were attempting to create a user comments screen in our other project was the lack of a similar component in an open source space.
Better – Automated Tests in Ruby Using the SitePrism Gem for the Page Object Model Pattern Capybara is a simple Domain Specific Language (DSL), which is totally fine for a small number of automated tests. However, when the quantity of the tests grows, managing them becomes a major undertaking because even small UI changes can disrupt various tests.
What Do Design, Psychology & Communication Skills Have in Common? Trends are constantly changing – much faster than the products we are working on. Each industry has its own design tendencies, and each group of users has its own preferences and habits. Our role is to recognise them and to turn them into a single product that won’t end up being just a passing trend.
iOS UI Testing and Why It Does Not Always Work: a.k.a. Pushing The Limits of the XCTest Framework When Apple introduced the new UI automation framework in 2015 we became excited. We could finally test the UI and the behaviour of our applications using Swift (or Objective-C) and the native library. Previously, we had to write scripts in JavaScript and execute them using Instruments. This was not the easiest way to write, maintain, and debug tests. Thankfully, since Apple introduced the new framework things began to change...but did they really?
Coded UI Test – how to start? Coded UI is a UI Test Automation framework based on Microsoft UI Automation library. It provides tools for easy recording and creation of automated UI tests for web, desktop and mobile apps.
PGS Software is Building a Dedicated UI / UX Team – Meet Our First Specialist! Developing software in many ways resembles constructing a vehicle. Programming provides the frame, the engine and the drivetrain. However two cars with the same internals can be very different. One might prove uncomfortable, rough and unintuitive, while the other may look – and feel – like a luxury dream car.…
