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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. Read more...
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. Read more...
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! Read more...
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