Slides from the Haifa Tech Talk Meetup with Asaf Saar, Co-Founder & CEO of TenKod. Delivering mobile apps to the market demands software developers, testers and dev ops teams to struggle daily with the challenges and complexities of mobile technologies, devices, operating systems and versions. In this meeting we will review the evolution of mobile apps delivery, reviewing practices, tools and methods of past, present and the future road of mobile apps delivery. You will get actual tools and practices to deliver the best app possible! The world goes mobile! TenKod enables organizations to maximize profit by changing the way mobile apps are delivered! TenKod EZ TestApp offers the TenKod innovative solutions for all mobile apps test automation needs.

1. Mobile Apps Delivery –
Evolution and Tools
Haifa Tech Talk, April 14, 2015
Asaf Saar, CEO
TenKod Ltd.
asaf.saar@tenkod.com
www.tenkod.com

2. Agenda
1. Evolution of Mobile
2. Mobile Development Landscape
3. Mobile Delivery Challenges
4. Apps Delivery Models
5. Methods, Tools and Practices
6. Q&A

3. About Me
§ Asaf
Saar,
Co-­‐Founder
and
CEO
of
TenKod
Ltd.
§ 19
years
of
professional
experience
in
So@ware
Engineering
§ Prior
to
TenKod,
8
years
at
SAP,
last
role
as
APO
of
SE
§ Agile
So@ware
trainer,
coacher
and
mentor
§ Married
to
Merav
and
father
of
three
§ Astronomy
and
fast
cars
are
my
hobbies
http://il.linkedin.com/in/asafsaar
asaf.saar@tenkod.com

4. Evolution of Mobile - Devices
§ 1973
–
First
handheld
mobile
developed
§ 1984
–
Nokia
talkman
§ 1992
–
Motorola
InternaRonal
3200
§ 1994
–
IBM
Simon
Personal
Communicator
§ 1996
–
Motorola
Startac
§ 1998
–
Nokia
5110
§ 1999
–
BlackBerry
850
§ 2007
–
iPhone
§ 2008
–
Android

5. Evolution of Mobile - OS
§ 1973-­‐1993
–
Embedded
System
based
OS
§ 1996
–
Palm
Pilot,
Windows
CE
§ 2000
–
Symbian
§ 2002
–
BlackBerry
§ 2007
–
iOS,
Windows
Mobile
§ 2008
–
Android
§ 2009
–
webOS,
Bada,
Palm
OS
§ 2011
–
Tizen
§ 2012
–
Firefox
OS
§ 2013
–
Ubuntu
Touch
World’s most
popular OS and
Smartphone.
Till 2010…

6. World-Wide Smartphone Sales

7. World-Wide Smartphone Sales

8. Mobile Development Landscape
Development
Targets
§ OS
Level
§ NaRve
§ Hybrid
§ Web
Development
Landscapes
§ Single
developer
§ Team
§ Staging
§ Cloud
§ Hybrid
Development
Frameworks
§ Android
SDK
§ iOS
ObjecRveC/Swi@
§ Windows
Mobile
/
.NET
§ PhoneGap
§ Titanium
Appcelerator
§ Xamarin
§ Appery.io
§ Angular
UI
§ Sencha
Touch
§ ………

9. iOS Challenge
§ 15
DisRnct
Devices
(coun&ng
from
iPhone
4S…)
§ 70%
of
users
adopt
latest
OS
within
6
months
§ 8
DisRnct
screen
dimensions

10. Android Challenge
§ 18,796
DisRnct
Devices
(as
of
8/14)
§ 5%
of
users
adopt
latest
OS
§ 150
DisRnct
screen
dimensions

11. Mobile Delivery Challenges
§ Fragmented
landscape
of
mobile
devices
§ Fragmented
landscape
of
development
environment
§ Increased
complexity
of
business
applicaRons
§ OS,
NaRve,
Web
and
Hybrid
apps
§ Dev/Test/Deliver
cycle
Rmes
are
very
short
§ Limited
access
to
devices
and
mobile
networks
§ Very
different
from
desktop

12. How different from Desktop?
§ No
common
delivery
soluRon
§ Device
fragmentaRon
§ Users
interact
differently
§ Device
resources
are
limited
§ App
stores
limitaRons
§ Rapid
development

13. Apps Delivery
Models

14. Dev
Test
Deliver
Local, “freelance”

15. Dev
Integrate
Test
Deliver
Team, “integration”

16. Corporate, “staging”
• Dev
1,
Dev
2,
Dev
N…
• Integrate
• Test
• Deliver
Local
• Merge
• IntegraRon
Test
• Deliver
IntegraRon
• Merge
• User
Acceptance
Test
• Deliver
ProducRon

17. Agile, “Continuous Integration”
Local
Test
Integrated
Test
Deliver

18. Agile, “Continuous Delivery”
Novice Beginner Intermediary Advanced Expert
Local
Test
Integrated
Test
Deliver

19. Methods, Tools
and Practices

20. Methods
§ Manual
/
Ad
hoc
§ AutomaRon
–
Unit,
API,
Services,
UI,
Security,
Load
§ LocalizaRon
§ Network
§ Cloud
based
Devices
§ Crowd

21. None UI Testing
§ Broken
connecRvity
simulator
§ Offline
mode
§ Excessive
resource
usage
§ AB
TesRng
/
Feature
toggling
§ Non
visual
events
asserRons
§ API
mocks
§ Stats
tesRng
§ OTA
updates
§ Stress
tesRng
§ Image
recogniRon
§ Crash
detecRon
§ Sensors
§ OS
event
simulaRons

22. Crowed Testing
Pros
§ Mass
users
§ Mass
devices
§ Remote
locaRons
§ LocalizaRon
§ Remote
networks
To
name
a
few
§ uTest
/
Applause
§ We-­‐Test
§ UberTester
§ Testbirds

23. Automation, Open Source
Pros
§ Free
§ Community
§ Your
Code
To
name
a
few
§ Calabash
§ Espresso
§ Appium
§ Frank
§ KIF
§ RoboRum
§ Selendroid

24. Automation, Proprietary
Pros
§ Script
recording
§ Robust
reporRng
§ Support
§ Device
Cloud
IntegraRon
To
name
a
few
§ TenKod
§ Keynote
§ Appurify
§ SOASTA
§ Perfecto
Mobile
§ Ranorex

25. CI / CD
Pros
§ Automated
Processes
§ Instant
feedback
§ Faster
delivery
§ Learn
and
improve
To
name
a
few
§ Jenkins
§ TeamCity
§ Bamboo
§ ToughtWorks
Go/Snap
§ Chef

26. Where do we
head from here?

27. The future
§ Be
sure,
it
will
get
even
MORE
complex
(Wearable,
IoT)
§ Yet,
soluRons
should
be
VERY
simple
§ Openness
&
3rd
Party
integraRon
§ AutomaRon,
automaRon,
automaRon

28. TenKod
EZ TestApp

29. Mobile Apps Testing Made Easy
VCS
(Version Control System)
TenKod Studio
1. Develop Mobile app
5. Triggers a build of
the changed VCS repo
TenKod Nexus
(Delivery repository)
TenKod Jenkins slave 2
(e.g. Tests on Phone)
TenKod Jenkins slave 1
(e.g. Tests on Tablet)
5.1 Distributed
parallel build
3. Modify test project
TenKod Master
Jenkins
Dave Lopper

30. Thank you!
Copyright © 2015 TenKod Ltd. All rights reserved
Asaf Saar, CEO
TenKod Ltd.
asaf.saar@tenkod.com
www.tenkod.com

31. References
and
trademarks:
1. TenKod
name,
logo
and
icon
are
trademarks
of
A.O.E
TenKod
Ltd.
2. Amazon
AWS
name
and
logo
are
trademarks
of
Amazon
Web
Services,
Inc.
or
its
affiliates.
3. Eclipse
name
and
logo
are
the
intellectual
property
of
the
Eclipse
FoundaRon.
4. Sonatype
and
Sonatype
Nexus
are
trademarks
of
Sonatype,
Inc.
5. Apache
Maven
and
Maven
are
trademarks
of
the
Apache
So@ware
FoundaRon.
6. M2Eclipse
is
a
trademark
of
the
Eclipse
FoundaRon.
7. Git
is
a
member
of
So@ware
Freedom
Conservancy
8. All
other
trademarks
are
the
property
of
their
respecRve
owners.