August 22, 2023
Business Software Development, iOS Applications, Technical Tutorial

Introduction to Quality Assurance: Why Functional Testing Matters Functional testing is critical to quality assurance. Identifying and correcting errors pre-release helps ensure the reliability and stability of APIs and web services as well as build confidence among your key stakeholders.  Integration testing bridges the gap between unit testing and software testing, helping your team test potential side effects before they become big-time issues. Even if individual modules are successfully unit tested, errors may still exist after integration. By analyzing multiple parts of...

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June 13, 2022
Technical Tutorial

Automated tests set apart good software development from great. However, when testing practices go wrong it can be a drain on your team’s productivity. There are plenty of introductory articles on how to write tests. You know the jargon, you can write a test, and you have a high-level idea of why tests are valuable. We will give you the tools to take your testing strategy to the next level by pointing out what is valuable to test, how to test, and...

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May 14, 2021
Technical Tutorial

Most experienced developers are familiar with using dynamic proxies. They enable us to implement an interface at runtime and decide how to execute methods dynamically as they are invoked. This is very useful to add additional functionality around existing implementations (especially from third-party libraries) as described by the Decorator Pattern. However, Kotlin coroutines introduce a new set of problems when creating dynamic proxies. We'll explore how to properly detect and dynamically invoke suspend functions declared on an interface. The Setup First, create...

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March 18, 2021
Android Applications, iOS Applications, Technical Tutorial

With all of the resources Google and Apple have poured into their ecosystems, creating cross-platform mobile applications is easier than ever. However, you still can’t get around the fact that building a native application means developing it twice - once for iOS and once for Android. Well, now thanks to a framework called Flutter, developers can create for both platforms at the same time. ...

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October 3, 2018
Technical Tutorial

Many times when developing an application for a customer, the requirement surfaces to handle uploaded files. It is a problem that has been solved many times, but typically not without causing the developer headaches in the process. When dealing with uploads, one has to consider a multitude of questions: What kinds of file are allowed? How big can the files get? How many can be uploaded and where do you store the files once uploaded? It can be a mess of...

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August 13, 2018
Technical Tutorial

Dealing with JSON is one of those tasks that almost every developer has to perform in order to construct data models with which to populate project views. However, building and testing a good data model can be time-consuming and prone to mistakes. JSON Parsing in Swift Before Codable Prior to Swift 4, Swift's Foundation library provided native JSON parsing by way of the JSONSerialization API. Simply put, JSONSerialization would convert an API payload into a collection of dictionaries with nested arrays. However,...

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