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Platform engineering is a growing field focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports the development and deployment of software applications. What do developers need to know about platform engineering?

Learn what observability is and why it matters to Site Reliability Engineers.

Learn how using a real device cloud can help resolve mobile app test errors and help teams streamline debugging.

Learn how better error monitoring and reporting can help improve your mobile app's user experience and app store reviews.

To ship quality code at a higher release velocity, developers need the tools and capabilities that help them identify the root cause of test failures and errors in code, faster.

Do you remember where you were on July 6, 2016? It was a Wednesday. American tennis sensations Venus and Serena Williams advanced to the semi-finals at Wimbledon. Drake’s ‘One Dance’ remained the number one song in both the US and UK. A super bacterium was discovered on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro just weeks before the games of the 31st Olympiad. If you are an American, perhaps you were still picking up remnants of fireworks from your backyard, and you may have seen some neighborhood children (or adults) congregating at street corners glued to their phones. They stood there, fixated on the small screens, yelping once in a while, looking up and abruptly changing directions as if tracking something down. Then you heard a curious exclamation. “I did it! I caught Pikachu!”

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most beloved American films of all time, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. E.T. was by all accounts a smashing success to the tune of $800 Million at the box office and cemented Stephen Spielberg as one of the most talented young filmmakers in the world. The film bathed us in nostalgia for neighborhood bike rides and proved for ambitious studio heads that film merchandise could be a viable revenue stream, rivaled perhaps only by ticket receipts themselves. The film even birthed the iconic logo for Amblin Entertainment. Yes, in the year 1982, the adorable little alien was everywhere. But they didn’t get everything right.

In this post, Ashwini Sathe reviews the options available for mobile test automation frameworks and provides guidance on how to choose the best one for your organization's needs.

Errors happen. Despite best efforts, no piece of software is perfect. Unintentional issues with code, updates to existing frameworks, or unexpected interactions with other tools can all cause errors. As a result, it's critical for companies to deploy robust and reliable error reporting processes that help them proactively identify potential issues and improve operational outcomes. In this error reporting overview, we'll break down how error reports work, what advantages they offer, and how this process works in Backtrace.

Fixing mobile software errors is a collaborative effort. Errors and crashes will be identified throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by QA, testers, customer support, or users themselves. Unfortunately, there is often a time lag and loss of information as these errors get routed to the programmers who can further triage and resolve. The Sauce Labs Mobile Crash and Error Reporting solution (Backtrace) helps address these challenges by providing best-in-class error capture, prioritization, and resolution flows to help companies cut their time to detection and resolution of issues in half.

Hi-Rez is a gaming company that utilized Backtrace to assist them in making their testing process better than ever. Learn more about how Hi-Rez became even more successful in the following interview case study.

In this webinar, Sauce Labs mobile testing experts discuss strategies for successful mobile app beta testing and provide tips for releasing better mobile apps in shorter development cycles.