Balendran | CTO, Bluedot Innovation

balendran@bluedot.com.au

Next Generation of rapid mobile testing in an Agile environment

A little bit about myself

Point of sale and Easy track

Softech - A market place for computer hardware and software. Connecting buyers and sellers. A gum tree equivalent for everything computers.

Twitter handle : @balendran LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/balatry

After establishing two start-ups with mixed results, I have worked for various organisations at different capacities. I again decided two years

ago to quit it all and get back into start-ups.

About Bluedot Innovation

Cutting edge location services platform with up to 20x precision compared to current industry standard. This is a key requirement for enabling location based payments.

GPS level accuracy without draining the end users battery and users privacy is guaranteed.

The platform is being used by over 400 customers and we are on-boarding some large clients from Banking, Transport and Retail sectors, however the technology has wider reach and applications, beyond banking and mobile commerce.

To-date we have received close to $4M in funding and set up our US operations recently. More importantly we are generating revenue.

Until now, businesses have typically not used high precision location services

in their applications…

DisruptionsSome of the recent disruptive start-ups

Bluedot Innovation’s Location Services SDK is disruptive nature and has been described as a $Billion business

AirBnb – A web site for accommodation sharing – Disrupting the traditional real estate and Holiday and recreation industry

Uber – A taxi app, disrupting the traditional taxi industry. Connecting passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing service

Mobile Testing-Current state

Largely manual with limited cloud and crowd sourced testingUI Layout and Version compatibility testing can benefit from better testing tools

Vendor support is commercially driven and lacks the vision for unification.This has led to the popularity of cloud services such as Appium, Robotium, Xamarin, Smart Bear, Kony and a lot more

As the mobile application development platforms or MDAPs continue to grow we would like toolsets to do integrated testing and better efforts from hardware and OS providers to bridge the gap between developers, testers and platforms

Multiple API levels and myriad of devices, limited options for complete solutions

Mobile Testing – Future state

Continuous Integration driven testing with good support for

simulator/Emulator for testing mobile applications in complex environment

Crowd sourced testing will drive the innovation and finally major providers

will integrate crowd support

Agile test teams will greatly interoperate with developers and designers to

speed up testing and delivery

From the beginning it was clear that crowd sourcing and engaging externals was the way to go

Testing for IoT and the connected world

Wearables and Health

Usability testing

Security testing *****

Device testing

Connectivity testing

Wearables marketplace is building traction

A couple of hack week projects from Bluedot

Where do we start testing this

Big data generators

Drop cam and Amazon dash buttons

Smart TV, Smart Table, Smart Pen, Smart Bin, Smart Bag, Smart Shirt and smart everything is currently connecting to each other and the net to generate huge volume of data

Lack of standards and protocols around these devices, will make testing difficult and building test tools harder.

Who is generating big data and big data testing

Quality management at Bluedot

The past

From the beginning we knew, crowd sourcing and engaging externals was the way to go

Quality management at Bluedot

Present

We will continue to innovate and make maximum use of crowd and cloud

Quality management at Bluedot

The Future

All developers will write bug free code, architects will design perfect systems????

We will continue to build smart tools and engage communities. With the focus on CI and automation responsible for bulk of the testing

QUESTIONS.????