How Integrated QA Can Improve Your Product’s User Experience
If you're reading this, you're most likely involved in building software products — which means that you're actually in the business of solving user experience problems. Solutions to UX problems are the foundation of any viable product, whether it's a
How Integrated QA Can Help Manage Business Risk
When you think of the makeup of a product team, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it the three Ds: developers, delivery leads, designers? What about Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers — does your product team even have
Labs Live: QA at Labs with Katrina Ohlemacher and Jon Guest
On this episode of Labs Live, Dan and Tobi welcome Katrina and Jon, Quality Engineers at Detroit Labs. They discuss the role of Quality Assurance (QA) at Labs, the myth that the QA's job is to break things, and how
How My Life Experiences Made Me a Better QA – Part 2
By Jonathan Guest If you missed the first installment of this two-part series, read How My Life Experiences Made Me a Better QA, also by Jonathan Guest. As I progressed through my career, I started to notice that preventing issues was something
How My Life Experiences Made Me a Better QA
By Jonathan Guest If I were to take a look at everything I enjoy in life and boil it down to my two favorites (setting family on its own pedestal, of course), learning and musicianship would stand higher than the rest. My
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
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
QA Owns Main: 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 Main, leading to a higher quality app and a ton of other benefits. We