This is a guest post by Slava Chernikoff, Principal Engineer at Binwell. Mobile DevOps falls under the umbrella of enterprise DevOps, since mobile applications are primarily a user interface for interacting with external IT systems. Mobile teams tend to have a much smaller scale, however, plus has its own unique challenges in multiple platforms and devices. You can find the high-level difference between mobile and enterprise applications in Figure 1. Our focus in this blog is helping you setup a mobile CI/CD solution using Visual Studio App Center. Mobile CI/CD Pipeline Toolkits for building and publishing installation packages have been around for a long time.

Typically, this is a set of scripts that is used on the build machine in the mobile development team. Figure 2 shows the general process of Mobile CI/CD.

Recently however, cloud services have started to gain popularity for the implementation of CI/CD, which is where App Center comes into play. 1.1 Build Tools You can run the CI/CD-pipeline either independently or via your enterprise collaboration tool command – in our case, Slack, or automatically for every push to the repository. With cloud CI/CD it is better to configure the automatic option, as this will shorten the way of receiving information about errors.

Below are the necessary settings for the build pipeline in App Center (add the project in App Center, connect the code repository and configure Build for different branches - see Figure 3). Manual mode is best left for more complex scenarios - for example, preparing a separate assembly for A/B testing, or running a wider set of functional tests before delivery to beta users.

In order to run test automation in App Center from your build configuration, you need to write bash-scripts for iOS/Android and put them in the project folder:. appcenter-post-clone.sh - starts right after the remote repository is cloned on the build-machine (mac for iOS/Android). You can run unit tests here:.

appcenter-pre-build.sh - it is executed before the application build, here it is possible, for example, to write BUILDID in the application version (x.y.BUILDID);. appcenter-post-build.sh - starts immediately after the successful building of the application. At this step, you can run custom Smoke tests on real smartphones/tablets or advanced Acceptance or tests.

Since the building (including packaging and signing) of actual mobile applications takes quite a long time (more than 5-10 minutes), you can run unit-tests on post-clone or pre-build steps, this will allow quick diagnostics of key mechanisms. But Smoke testing, which is highly recommended in mobile development, should be done after the build. This will verify that the application, at least, will run on real smartphones with the required OS versions. 1.2 Cloud Build Machines In order to build applications in the App Center, virtual Macs working on Apple hardware are used. These machines have a rich set of tools that you can also use in your bash scripts - see Figure 4.

For more details on App Center Cloud Build Machines: and then we'll take a look at the scripts themselves. 1.3 Custom Scripts for Build Steps If you have not written shell scripts for bash, then you need to practice a little and read the documentation: In our example, we created an automatic CI/CD pipeline for the master branch in the repository on GitHub:. As you can see in Figure 5, App Center automatically found our scripts that were added to the project folder (where the.xcodeproj, build.gradle,.csproj,.sln or package.json files are located). When writing scripts, it may be necessary to use bash environment variables - an external script or the program writes its variable to the bash session, for example APPCENTERSOURCEDIRECTORY and this allows to use the value of this variable in your scripts.

Key pre-defined environment variables in App Center: Read more: You can also configure your environment variables in the build parameters (see Figure 7). In your scripts, you can use the variables $MAJORVERSION and $MINORVERSION, as shown in the example for appcenter-pre-build.sh. In your scripts you can also modify your application source code with regular expressions and shell tools/commands.

Now let's look at each script separately. We'll start with the post-clone step, which will start Unit-tests. All examples are provided for Xamarin based Android project. Appcenter-post-clone.sh As you can see, the script searches for folders with.csproj-files (Visual Studio projects), the name of which contains UnitTests and runs unit-tests based on NUnit or MSTest. In our example, unit-tests are implemented on with.NET Core and MSTest.

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You can use any familiar tools for unit-testing, depending on the framework which you will use to develop application. Appcenter-pre-build.sh In this step, you can add BUILDID to the version of the application in the format MAJORVERSION.MINORVERSION.BUILDID. We can also perform any additional actions here before the build. Appcenter-post-build.sh If the build has reached this step, then you have APK/IPA installation package.

For many teams, the CI/CD pipeline was interrupted at this step, as it was required to check on actual devices, and on-premise device farms for UI-tests was a luxury. The provided script uses the App Center Test Cloud for automatic custom Smoke tests (based on Xamarin.UITest) to run the application.

More details about automatic testing will be covered in the next article. Automatic Testing as Part of Mobile CI/CD As we mentioned earlier, mobile development has 3 distinct problem areas:. Different screen resolutions of devices. Regardless of the number of pixels or aspect ratio, the application interface should be correctly displayed on all devices. Different operation systems and their versions.

The application should work correctly on a wide range of operation systems, each of them has its own features and limitations. Different CPU architectures. The smartphones and tablets themselves are constantly improving, but we should not forget about the older devices produced five years ago, which can still be in use by the actual users. However, part of the code can be easily covered by automatic tests based on Unit Testing tools. Let's look at the typical architecture of mobile application - Figure 8. Full tests coverage is more reasonable to carry out in 2 directions:. unit-tests (functional, integration) for a Data Access Layer (or Repositories).

UI-tests (functional, regression) for Business Logic and User Interface layers. Covering all layers of mobile application with Unit Tests is not possible, and it also reduces the speed of development. More details on automatic testing, will be covered in future article, now it’s important to say that the automatic CI/CD pipeline can include Unit and UI tests with. Conclusion The mobile CI/CD approach allows you to simplify and accelerate the process of creating a quality product. Cloud Mobile CI/CD pipeline based on App Center allows to “configure-and-forget” environment for build, test and distribute.

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In this article we explained mobile development pitfalls and how to avoid them with automation. In my next post, I’ll focus on automatic testing (Unit and UI): Stay tuned! About the author Slava Chernikoff is Principal Engineer at, and is a Microsoft MVP and Xamarin Certified Developer. He is an experienced mobile cross-platform and native developer, an author of popular articles and guides about Mobile DevOps and Xamarin, and a regular conference speaker. He was previously was honored as Nokia Champion and Qt Certified Developer and is a Microsoft MVP and Xamarin Certified Developer.

Wireless Messaging News FRIDAY — AUGUST 31, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 521 Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging, Greetings from Southern Illinois. We are supposed to get the remnants of Hurricane Isaac later today. I got a call from a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology about my report of hearing WWV announce the wrong time. He is the Quality Manager for the NIST Time and Frequency Division.

There is a group of amateur radio enthusiasts called the “FMT Nuts” who have contests to see who can most accurately measure the frequency of a radio signal. (FMT stands for Frequency Measuring Test.) So the FMT Nuts had been discussing this WWV time reporting issue on their Yahoo group and I helped the NIST fellow get access to their reports. I hope they find out what the problem is. One of our readers suggested that the pain medication after my oral surgery might have had an effect on my time monitoring ability — ha ha, but I don't think so. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE “In computing, a news aggregator, also termed a feed aggregator, feed reader, news reader, RSS reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing.” Wikipedia contributors, “News aggregator,”, (accessed August 31, 2012).

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The Expert for Telecommunication and Economics, Prof. Torsten Gerpott certifies paging as having tremendous innovative potential for domestic applications. Twister 300 The new generation of satellite-based wireless weather stations presented by partners of e.Message, for the first time, at the IFA 2012 in Berlin. With “Twister 300” and “WD 4920” presented by the Companies TFA Dostmann and Technotrade, at the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, devices for the sideboard which show not only detailed local weather forecasts for the next days, but also visual and audible alerts when official severe weather warnings from the German Weather Service (DWD) come up for the local region.

All forecasts and alerts are regionalized. For 300 districts in Germany the data will be dynamically updated and transmitted through the nationwide paging network of the Berlin-based e.Message Group. Since its successful debut five years ago already over two million households get their up-to-date weather forecasts with weather stations using integrated paging modules. WD 4290 The advantage of the wireless weather stations: “Push” rather than “Pull” Telecommunications and Economics expert Prof. Torsten Gerpott sees several reasons for the high demand.

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Phil Leavitt 847-955-0511 7508 N. Red Ledge Dr. Paradise Valley, AZ 85253 Processor pioneer Victor Poor dies of cancer at 79 Modest designer of Intel's first integrated processors By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Obituary Victor Poor, whose death was announced this weekend, isn't one of the first names to come to mind among computing history, but he played a pivotal role in the development of Intel's early architectures that went on to dominate modern computing and is a legend in ham radio circles.

Poor, along with fellow radio enthusiast and student Harry Pyle, designed what became Intel's 4004 chip, on Thanksgiving weekend in 1969 - sketching out the architecture in his living room in a marathon four-day session. He also played a key role in working with Intel on the 8008 chip, the world's first 8-bit microprocessor. Born in 1933, in the midst of the last Great Depression, Poor showed an early interest in technology, describing himself in a with the Computer History Unit's oral history division as a 'natural-born nerd' who lived for ham radio. After a stint in the US Navy following World War II he qualified for naval electronic school before working on the first Univac systems and the Packard Bell 250 computer. He recalled that the Univacs, with their delicate construction of vacuum tubes and liquid mercury memory, were prone to breaking down every 90 minutes or so, so any programming had to be quick and correct. The team was working on a computer program for air traffic control at the time, which caused him some concern for the safety of passengers coming in to land. The same reliability problems of analogue computing dogged his next job as a field engineer for Raytheon, fixing up the Sparrow III air-to-air missile.

The missile's control systems relied on the analogue circuitry and vacuum tubes and 'didn't work very well,' he recalls, particularly in tropical parts of the world. In 1959 he left to start up what became Fredrick Electronics with $100,000 in VC funding. Much in the same way as Hewlett and Packard, Frederick was a radio and telecommunications engineering shop, working on military and commercial communications and building some of the first reliable telex systems capable of transmitting images and sound. Occasionally these products were accidental. Inspired by his ham radio systems, Poor built a machine to convert teletype into Morse code.

This was just something he was noodling with, but a visiting US Navy officer saw it and insisted on ordering some, and eventually the company sold huge numbers of machines that could convert Morse code into teletype and vice versa, eventually achieving transmission speeds of 300 words per minute. But these devices were still analog and weren't programmable, running purely off ROM memory. This led to significant reliability problems. While machine to machine communications were reasonably reliable, the tapping style (or fist) of a human Morse code operator could completely flummox the machines. After the company was bought out by Plantronics, Poor turned his mind to integrated circuitry, and joined Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), a startup by two NASA engineers. The company pitched Intel and Texas Instruments to build the 4004 processor design he and Pyles had developed and used it in a range of teletype machines based around integrated circuitry.

Poor also worked with Intel on the next generation of processors, which became the 8008 line that helped spur Chipzilla's massive growth. CTC again asked Intel and TI to try and build the chip, eventually using most of Intel's offering but with its own tweaks. Intel bought the rights to the hardware in exchange for writing off its original $50,000 fee. Despite his pivotal role in the design of early computer hardware Poor was very modest about his input, typically shifting the praise to fellow engineers who also worked on the project. Patenting such systems wasn't also something he had much time for and he appeared to regret the current mania for owning every new technology in a legally binding way. CTC was renamed Datapoint and developed its own processing systems under Poor's guidance.

But the company decided not to follow IBM's move into the personal computer market, for fear that it would undercut its own highly-profitable business — a decision Poor personally disagreed with. He retired in 1984, saying the company had got too big and he wasn't having fun anymore. For someone with more experience than most in the field, he described himself as still clueless about how to run a technology company efficiently, saying he felt too much like Dilbert's pointy-haired manager.

'I've often thought about what's the good way to organize a company and I've come to the conclusion there is no good way,' he said. 'No matter what we did, you know, at Datapoint we tried all kinds of schemes, we did skunkworks projects and we had separate departments and we merged departments and we unmerged departments and no matter what we did there was always something wrong.' He professed irritation with management guru Tom Peters, who interviewed him and other Datapoint management for the book In Search of Excellence. Peters misrepresented the management process, he said, making it out to be easy. 'I didn't even recognize myself in there.

He made it look like we were geniuses and it just is not true. It's just not true,' he said. After stepping down from Datapoint, Poor and his family spent much of their time sailing in the US, Mexico and Europe. While on board he developed a communication system that married amateur radio stations transmissions and messaging servers to allow a basic e-mail, graphics, and data transmission, which is still used by over 100,000 hams today. In May, Poor was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer and he died on Friday in Florida. He is survived by Florence, his wife of 60 years, and their two children.

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Secondary Features Supporting Public Safety and Healthcare Second Java zero-day exploit uncovered by Antone Gonsalves Aug 29, 2012 11:30 am Researchers have found a second zero-day Java vulnerability that attackers are using to hijack computers on the Web. An analysis of exploit code found shortly after the first Java flaw was discovered Sunday revealed the second vulnerability.

The code has been tied to attackers in China. 'The beauty of this bug class is that it provides 100 percent reliability and is multi-platform,' Esteban Guillardoy, a developer at Immunity, said Tuesday in announcing the discovery of the second bug.

'Hence this will shortly become the penetration test Swiss knife for the next couple of years.' Users of Java, which is installed in billions of devices worldwide, are notorious for not staying up to date with patches.

Rapid7 estimates that 65 percent of the installations today are unpatched. However, this time around, people with the latest version of Java were the ones most open to attack. The bugs are in Java 7 and affect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems running a Web browser with a Java plugin enabled.

The flaws were introduced with the release the platform in July 28, 2011, Guillardoy said in his analysis. Java steward Oracle has not released a fix for either vulnerability.

The company has registered the first flaw as CVE-2012-4681 on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list. Joshua Drake, a security researcher from Accuvant, discovered the initial bug. Researchers are advising computer owners to disable Java in all browsers.

'That would be the only solution, right now,' said Tod Beardsley, a bug testing engineering manager for Rapid7. For businesses that need to run Java, Beardsley recommends using a white list that prevents employees from visiting anything but trusted websites. Both vulnerabilities are being leveraged in the Blackhole exploit kit, a backdoor Trojan kit used by cybercriminals. 'Now that Blackhole has it, you should expect to see it in any kind of attack involving websites and Web browsers,' Beardsley said. Blackhole is one of the most common Web threats. Security vendor Sophos found the exploit kit used in 28 percent of the Web threats the company detected between October 2011 and March 2012. The flaws allow a remote attacker to execute code via a Java applet launched by a victim clicking on a link on a hacker's website or on a hijacked site.

'The applet can run with the same permissions that the user would normally have, so it's out of the Java sandbox,' Beardsley said. 'It can do anything that you can do with your computer. It can upload documents, install keyloggers and backdoors — basically anything.' Hackers are increasingly targeting Java because it runs on any operating system, which greatly expands the number of available targets.

Many of today's Web exploit toolkits rely heavily on Java exploits, which have surpassed Flash Player and Adobe Reader flaws in popularity, experts say. Source: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To: brad@braddye.com Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:51 AM Subject: From the Paging Information Web Site Hello Brad, Referencing the August 17th Newsletter regarding Motorola and Google. Sad times indeed along with fond memories. In 1979, I had the privilege to be part of the Motorola team that attended Telecom '79 in Geneva, Switzerland (I believe it was Knobby Clark, Bob Ennis, Tom Gallagher along with Peter Applebee from the UK and me doing booth duty). We had a fully working cell phone system at our booth and demonstrated the first working Motorola cell phone handset.

Battery life was so bad, we had a bank of chargers and batteries in the back of the booth and kept quickly changing batteries for our live demos. Wasn't it correct that it took until 1983 when John Mitchell demonstrated the first commercially viable unit in the US that satisfactory battery life was achieved? If you can put this in the newsletter, I would appreciate comments from others to see if my memories are correct. Personal regards, Ken Krassy 719-231-9109 cell phone UNTIL NEXT WEEK With best regards, Newsletter Editor 73 DE K9IQY Wireless Messaging News Brad Dye, Editor P.O. Box 266 Fairfield, IL 62837 USA Skype: braddye Twitter: @BradDye1 Telephone: 618-599-7869 E–mail: Wireless Paging Information WIRELESS MESSAGING THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Oh.

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