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Quality Assurance –Making it Better: Part 4: Understanding the Defect Workflow process

Bob Carver — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:46:56 +0000

In this post I’m going to walk through the defect reporting and resolution process. It's something that many developers have told us they didn’t quite understand until we walk through it, so we’re going do that here, and point out along the way how developers and QA teams can save each other time.

Differences in Developing Apps for Windows Phone 7

Bob Carver — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:12:10 +0000

Aeshen consults with agencies and other development firms on Windows Phone 7 development. Today I thought I would share with you some of the key things we talk about when mobile development firms looking to port their applications to Windows Phone 7.

The Return of Best of Breed

Bob Carver — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:09:44 +0000

Once again, the platforms are dictating application capabilities as well as user experience and design. Apps written for one platform aren’t as polished on other form factors even when they are from the same manufacturer. We will have to wait and see if this trend continues or if uniformity on some level can be brought to mobile application development.

Using Windows PowerShell as an IT Pro – Part 20

peterl — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:38:03 +0000

In my last post I finished looking at operators. Now let’s take a look at controlling flow. Up until now most of what we have gone over could be single line commands or commands that are part of a larger script. When you start using flow control then you pretty much have a script on [...]

New Features in Windows Phone 7 Mango

Bob Carver — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:32:34 +0000

There’s a lot of talk about the impending update to Windows Phone 7. There’s a lot of rumor, and some information that’s been released from Microsoft. We wanted to list out some of our favorite new features we think will be in Mango.

Quality Assurance –Making it Better: Part 3: Communicating for the Best QA

Bob Carver — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:22:02 +0000

In part 3 of this seriesI’m going to dive a little deeper into communication between developers and QA and discuss things developers can communicate to QA that will help make their products better, and reduce QA churn.

Know the Trade-offs Between Pre-Made and Custom Components

Bob Carver — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:36:58 +0000

We think that finding a partner that understands the native capabilities for a platform and the associated Software Development Kits (SDKs) is important for customers to get the best development choices. Clients should have a partner that can point out capabilities that are readily available from SDKs or other third party tools and the trade-offs in functionality, experience and cost between using those components when compared to writing custom controls.

Quality Assurance – Making it Better. Part 2: How a QA Team Looks at Features

Bob Carver — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:21:50 +0000

For the next part in our series I want to talk about how QA teams look at features and the type of information they need from development teams. To do this I’ll start with an example that our instructor used when delivering a QA class.

Architecting Your Web Site or Application for Localization

Bob Carver — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:49:41 +0000

Most of the Web and desktop applications we write these days are meant to go live worldwide, if not right away, within three to six months of launch. Here at Aeshen, we've developed methods that help keep localization costs low for our clients.

Quality Assurance – Making it Better. Part 1: Perspectives on QA.

Bob Carver — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:10:29 +0000

Aeshen has an in-house Quality Assurance (QA) team and we pride ourselves on delivering great services and applications that are thoroughly tested. Our team is so good, QA has evolved from a being a component of our service offerings to being its own service offering. We provide QA for hire services to companies large and [...]