At Beta Breakers, we’ve chosen to do all of our mobile device testing on physical devices rather than using emulators and simulators. In the early days of mobile testing, this was the only way to get reliable results, and even with today’s advances in virtualization, the best way to really get a feel for a… Read more »
Posts Tagged: iOS
iOS 12 Is Released
Apple has released iOS 12 to the general public as of Monday, September 17 and we have been hard at work updating a number of our mobile lab devices to the new operating system. As OS upgrades go, this one has been fast and easy to both acquire over the air and to install –… Read more »
Apple Aims to Stamp Out Bugs With Millions of Beta Testers
In February 2015, Apple announced that it would begin offering public beta tests for future versions of its mobile operating system in response to consumer complaints about widespread quality control issues in iOS 8. When iOS 8.0.1 launched in late 2014, it came with a serious bug that broke the Touch ID feature in iPhones…. Read more »
Lab Hardware Update: New Android and iOS Tablets
We’ve added a bunch of new tablets to our QA labs; mostly Android, but we also picked up a brand-new iPad as well (one of the recently-released 2018 models that are intended to compete with Chromebooks in the education market, primarily). In addition to our other devices, we now have the following available for testing:… Read more »