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Testing Android Device-to-Device Transfer

November 14, 2022 Trudy Firestone 0 Comments

Android has supported autoBackup for apps by default since Android 6, enabling users to backup app data automatically to Google Drive. Configuration for this backup could be added with backup rules, or it could be turned off entirely with autoBackup=false. This also allowed apps to configure device-to-device transfer (D2D transfer),…

Eliminating the Manual Regression

June 9, 2022 Alixe Langshall 0 Comments

I’ve seen code that I have written go out to production before. This time it was an event that I had carefully orchestrated with the ops on-call team, mostly because of the magnitude of the change. We had rehearsed the change in our preproduction environment and the actual change itself…

How to defuse a bomb… Wait, I mean a bug

August 15, 2017 Michele Campbell 0 Comments

Helpful testing methods to get a quality product out faster When you have a product release happening very soon and there are major features going out, you may feel a bit of pressure trying to make sure there are no bugs going out with those features. Testing the product under…

Selenium IDE: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

September 13, 2016 Jared Yarn 16 Comments

Here at Lucid Software, we are always trying to release high quality code to users as quickly as possible. For every release, we spend three to five days doing a full regression to make sure the code is user ready. Three to five days is not as fast as possible….

Selenium: 7 Things You Need To Know

July 21, 2015 Jared Yarn 7 Comments

Image source: xkcd Selenium can be one of the most powerful tools in the QA Engineers’ arsenal. Unfortunately, it can be time consuming to write, a nightmare to maintain, and it can produce way too many false negatives. At Lucid Software, that is where our suite was in the middle…