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SASQAG's Next Monthly Meeting:

Thursday, September 16, 2010, 6:30 pm
at Compucom (Excell) in Bellevue, WA

Featured Presentation:

 Testing the Mobile Application's Performance - a Case Study on Mobile Devices

Mobile software usage is growing quickly, and an expanding number of consumers are expecting a consistent experience when moving from the PC to mobile devices and back again. One of the key factors enabling wide deployment and adoption of mobile applications is careful usage of system resources. High quality mobile applications must consume fewer system resources such as CPU, Memory, and most importantly the Battery life. It is crucial that design for mobile applications considers frugal and optimal resource usage as an essential aspect of application design (direct porting of desktop applications to mobile platforms is most often a recipe for failure). Knowing and understanding the factors that influence performance on mobile devices is extremely beneficial in order to plan a successful testing approach. Equally challenging is the task of measuring application performance and reporting the performance data in a useful and actionable manner.
 
We are going to present a case study on performance testing of the Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile application for Windows Mobile 6.x phones. We will discuss our approach to performance testing and the challenges involved in measuring various metrics. We will also provide details on the performance metrics, tools used to gather and present this data, and how we’ve used this data to make important decisions throughout the product cycle. Some architectural improvements have contributed to improved application performance and better resource usage. For example, the battery life has been improved by more than 300% in 2007 R2 version of the Communicator Mobile.

 

Rama Krishna has been working at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer in Test for five years. He has been extensively involved in testing the Communicator Mobile application on various mobile devices including Windows Mobile 6.x series devices. Prior to Microsoft, he has worked as a Software Developer at Cisco Systems for four years. He earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science in 2001.

 



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DebugLive
and:

CompuCom

UW Professional and Continuing Education

Software Testing Certificate Program

This program enables individuals who have basic computer experience to make a career change into the software industry.  The program is also ideal for those who are already testers and wish to gain professional training. This set of three classes is offered again this spring.

For further Info, see the UW WEB site, or call 206-865-8936

 



PNSQC 2010 call for abstracts

PNSQC 2010 Call for Abstracts — Technical Papers & Poster Papers Now Open


 


SASQAG Sponsors 2010 Certification Exams in Seattle


Software Certification Exams for 
Certified Software Quality Analyst and Certified Software Tester

CSQA and CSTE Exams in 2010 will be on-demand/electronic. 

SeeQAI Web site for further information.

For local information/questions contact cert@sasqag.org


ASQ's Exam for CertifiedSoftware Quality Engineer
Contact:  ASQ, (800) 248-1946 and ask for application package B0110.

Contact Tom Gilchrist, tomg@tomgtomg.com, for more info and study materials..

Candidates may form their own study group.

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Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group (SASQAG)
14201 SE Petrovitsky Rd
Suite A3-223
Renton, WA 98058