“The Times They Are a-Changin” – the title of an album and a song by BoB Dylan is a good description of the current state of affairs in the Web and Mobile world. The web is more complicated than ever: a plethora of devices combined with multiple browsing and usage contexts for websites and web applications.
In early June I took part in Webinale Berlin – a holistic event with an ambition to embrace and combine the business, technology and design perspectives on web and mobile development, e-commerce, conversion, social media, online marketing, tech start-ups, etc.
As the Internet matures, we abandon the classic approach whereby the user is presented with a handful of URLs which reload the page when clicked; the new approach aims to make the web application work seamlessly.
What follows is a highly subjective selection of books I would recommend to those who intend to embark on a web / mobile product development project or who mean to set up and grow a software-based business venture.
The fundamental goal behind the performance tests – it is all about the quality and the user experience delivered on the product you implement. And the key concern is the app response time your users are exposed to.
Some clients ask why their application needs to be covered with automated tests. The basic truth is that if you want to ensure quality on your application it should be properly tested and both manual and automated tests are essential when you want to achieve that goal.
It is not unusual for a new technology to originate from a successfully developed project. For example, we can find the pattern in the story of a web framework for Python – Django, which was originally developed to manage a number of news-oriented sites for the LJworld company.
