Stb-tester news, product announcements & testing topics.
11 Feb 2021.
If you want to test the same app on several different platforms, you want to
re-use as much test-script code as possible. For example you might have your
app on Android TV, Apple TV, Fire TV, PlayStation, Roku, XBox, and possibly
even some operator-specific set-top box platforms. This article shows how to
use the same test scripts and the same Page Objects for all these platforms,
and how to manage the cases where your app has differences in appearance or
behaviour across platforms.
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30 Apr 2020.
Stb-tester’s cloud-based portal gives you remote access to all the set-top
boxes and OTT devices in your test-farm, from anywhere in the world. Many of
our customers are using this capability to allow their staff, who are in
quarantine during the current coronavirus pandemic, to continue QA activities
from home — both manual & automated testing.
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21 Feb 2017.
There are several mature open source and proprietary tools for testing the user
interface of mobile apps on Android and iOS devices, but there aren’t many
solutions for internet service providers or video-on-demand streaming services
who want to test video playback on real mobile devices to validate their
end-to-end video delivery. In this article I’ll discuss various ways of getting
video frames from a mobile device for automated testing, and the advantages and
trade-offs of each approach.
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29 Jun 2016.
If you have already automated one or more testcases, run them! Ideally run them
every time a developer commits a change to the system-under-test. If that isn’t
possible, at least run the tests against nightly builds. Run! Your! Tests!
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