Karl Krukow
Karl Krukow is Technical Lead on Xamarin Test Cloud, an innovative cloud-based service that provides managed access to more than a thousand mobile devices for the purpose of mobile quality assurance.
Before joining Xamarin, Karl co-founded LessPainful, a mobile test automation start-up which created the popular open-source mobile test framework, Calabash. LessPainful was later acquired by Xamarin and became the cornerstone of Xamarin Test Cloud.
Karl graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from University of Aarhus in 2006 and worked several years as a senior consultant before co-founding LessPainful. His current professional passions are Xamarin, continuous delivery with focus on mobile, and functional programming (with special love for the Clojure programming language).
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Talks I've Given
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Agile Testing of Mobile Apps
Featuring Karl Krukow
Quality on mobile is a challenge! Developing mobile apps requires dealing with multiple platforms, OS versions, form-factors and resolutions, varying hardware capabilities and network conditions. At the same time users have extremely high expectations for the mobile experience and will promptly...
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Getting started on Mobile testing with Calabash - Part One
Featuring Karl Krukow
Quality on mobile is a challenge! Developing mobile apps requires dealing with multiple platforms, OS versions, form-factors, varying hardware capabilities and network conditions. At the same time users have extremely high expectations for the mobile experience and will promptly punish with bad...
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Getting started on Mobile testing with Calabash - Part Two
Featuring Karl Krukow
Quality on mobile is a challenge! Developing mobile apps requires dealing with multiple platforms, OS versions, form-factors, varying hardware capabilities and network conditions. At the same time users have extremely high expectations for the mobile experience and will promptly punish with bad...
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Getting started on Mobile testing with Calabash - Part Three
Featuring Karl Krukow
Quality on mobile is a challenge! Developing mobile apps requires dealing with multiple platforms, OS versions, form-factors, varying hardware capabilities and network conditions. At the same time users have extremely high expectations for the mobile experience and will promptly punish with bad...
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Cross-platform and End-To-End BDD for Mobile
Featuring Karl Krukow
Many companies are developing for multiple platforms: Android phone and tablet, iPhone, iPad, and (responsive) Web. In many cases, the business requirements and specifications are the same, or very similar across platforms. This leads naturally to questions like: how can we ensure quality and...
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Calabash, an open-source automated testing technology for iOS and Android
Featuring Karl Krukow
This talk for CukeUp will introduce Calabash and LessPainful, which provides hosted, cloud-based execution of Calabash tests that run concurrently on many physical, non-jailbroken devices running various languages and operating system versions.
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