How did I get here? A QA’s Journey Into QA
With Katrina Ohlemacher And you may find yourself in a beautiful house With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, well How did I get here? Sometimes I really do take a second during the day and wonder about the circumstances that brought me
Detroit Labs Hiring Process: What We Are Looking For
Hunting for a job in the software world can be a lot. It starts with the pressure of tailoring a resume that makes you look perfect for the position. Next, you need to craft a cover letter that makes you
Monday Mobile Mashup 8.6.2018
Too Much Unit Testing Is Detrimental for Code Quality “Some amount of unit testing is useful (which is also consistent with my own observations). It is just that unit testing is only one of the ways of automated testing – and
Monday Mobile Mashup 5.14.2018
The Lead Developer Austin Recap “The Lead Developer Austin conference is a one-track, one-day conference, as opposed to the London conference’s two days, but it still manages to fit in a lot of learning, insight, and inspiration. Here are some highlights
Monday Mobile Mashup 5.7.2018
Happy Monday! Here's our weekly Mobile Mashup filled with articles, tips, and insights we’ve found valuable throughout the mobile industry. RxJava to Kotlin Coroutines “This post is a summary of how I refactored an app which uses RxJava pretty heavily to one
How to Set Up Charles Proxy for an iOS Simulator
Here at Detroit Labs we use Charles Proxy to debug and test our mobile applications. By recording and displaying the data sent and received by our mobile apps, we gain the visibility we need to reliably diagnose and fix problems
Making Your Apps Accessible — Retroactively!
We navigate so much of the world through our mobile devices, and people who rely on assistive technologies to use their smartphones are no exception. Unfortunately, many app developers don’t have the best track record when it comes to building
Monday Mobile Mashup 6.26.2017
Happy Monday! Here's our weekly Mobile Mashup filled with articles, tips, and insights we’ve found valuable throughout the mobile industry. The Case for Kotlin "Kotlin is a modern programming language for building Android applications. Compared to Java, Kotlin boosts
QA Owns Master: A New Merging Strategy for Higher Quality
Interested in incorporating QA into your team? Let’s talk. Here at Detroit Labs, we’ve devised a simple workflow change to reduce the amount of bugs merged into master, leading to a higher quality app and a ton of other benefits. We
Monday Mobile Mashup 4.17.2017
Happy Monday! Here's our weekly Mobile Mashup filled with articles, tips, and insights we’ve found valuable throughout the mobile industry. Enjoy! 8 Benefits of Agile Software Development “In a previous post, What Is Agile Software Development?, we discussed a number of benefits