A Practical Guide to Testing Wireless Smartphone Applications
Author: Julian Harty File Type: pdf Testing applications for mobile phones is difficult, time-consuming, and hard to do effectively. Many people have limited their testing efforts to hands-on testing of an application on a few physical handsets, and they have to repeat the process every time a new version of the software is ready to test. They may miss many of the permutations of real-world use, and as a consequence their users are left with the unpleasant mess of a failing application on their phone. Test automation can help to increase the range and scope of testing, while reducing the overhead of manual testing of each version of the software. However automation is not a panacea, particularly for mobile applications, so we need to pick our test automation challenges wisely. This book is intended to help software and test engineers pick appropriately to achieve more and as a consequence deliver better quality, working software to users. This Synthesis lecture provides practical advice based on direct experience of using software test automation to help improve the testing of a wide range of mobile phone applications, including the latest AJAX applications. The focus is on applications that rely on a wireless network connection to a remote server, however the principles may apply to other related fields and applications. We start by explaining terms and some of the key challenges involved in testing smartphone applications. Subsequent chapters describe a type of application e.g. markup, AJAX, Client, followed by a related chapter on how to test each of these applications. Common test automation techniques are covered in a separate chapter, and finally there is a brief chapter on when to test manually. The book also contains numerous pointers and links to further material to help you to improve your testing using automation appropriately. Table of Contents Introduction Markup Languages Testing Techniques for Markup Applications AJAX Mobile Applications Testing Mobile AJAX Applications Client Applications Testing Techniques for Client Applications Common Techniques When to Test Manually Future Work Appendix A Links and References Appendix B Data Connectivity Appendix C Configuring Your Machine
Author: Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
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Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics is a challenge to contemporary radical politics and political thought. This collection of essays critiques the dominant trends and figures on the left that have distorted the legacy of progressive politics, arguing that they have moved politics away from issues of class and economic power toward a preoccupation with culture and identity. The contributors discuss this new radicalism from the perspective of a more rational form of leftism capable of reviving interest in a more politically relevant form of politics. **
Author: Deepa M. Ollapally
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South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the popular mind, extremism and terrorism are invariably linked to ethnic and religious factors. Yet the dominant history of South Asia is notable for tolerance and co-existence, despite highly plural societies. Deepa Ollapally examines extremist groups in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to offer a fresh perspective on the causes of extremism. What accounts for its rise in societies not historically predisposed to extremism? What determines the winners and losers in the identity struggles in South Asia? What tips the balance between more moderate versus extremist outcomes? The book argues that politics, inter-state and international relations often play a more important role in the rise of extremism in South Asia than religious identity, poverty, and state repression.Book DescriptionDeepa Ollapally examines extremist groups in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to offer a fresh perspective on the causes of extremism. Politics, inter-state and international relations play a more important role in the rise of extremism in South Asia than religious identity, poverty, and state repression. About the AuthorDeepa M. Ollapally is Professorial Lecturer, and the Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliott School for International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington DC. She is an expert on South Asian politics and international security and her publications include Confronting Conflict Domestic Factors and US Policymaking in the Third World (1993).
Author: Émile Durkheim
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In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. For Durkheim, studying Aboriginal religion was a way to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity. The need and capacity of men and women to relate to one another socially lies at the heart of Durkheims exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe. The Elementary Forms has been applauded and debated by sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians, and continues to speak to new generations about the intriguing origin and nature of religion and society. This new, lightly abridged edition provides an excellent introduction to Durkheims ideas.(source Bol.com)
Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itselfor a foreigners nightmare of New Yorkas its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillets novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into artand back again.Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itselfor a foreigners nightmare of New Yorkas its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillets novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into artand back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the New York, and the United States, that have actually come into being.
Author: Ladislav Bittman
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In practising what it calls disinformation, the Soviet union has for years sponsored grand deceptions calculated to mislead, confound, or inflame foreign opinion. Some of these subterfuges have had a considerable impact on world affairs. Some also have had unforeseeable consequences severely detrimental to Soviet interests. Ultimately, they have made the Soviet Union the victim of its own deceit... With KGB approval and support, the Czech STB in the autumn of 1964 initiated a vast deception campaign to arouse Indonesian passions against the United States. Through an Indonesian ambassador they had compromised with female agents, the Czechs purveyed to President Sukarno a series of forged documents and fictitious reports conjuring up CIA plots against him. One forgery suggested that the CIA planned to assassinate Sukarno another revealed a joint American-British plan to invade Indonesia from Malaysia. The unstable Sukarno responded with anti-American diatribes, which some Indonesian journalists in the pay of the KGB and STB amplified and Radio Moscow played back to the Indonesian people. Incited mobs besieged American offices in Djakarta, anti-American hysteria raged throughout the country, and US influence was eradicated. The former STB deception specialist Ladislav Bittman has written a history and analysis of the operation in which he participated. He states, We ourselves were surprised by the monstrous proportions to which the provocation grew...
Author: Edward López
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Does major political reform require acrisis? When donewideas emerge in politics? How can one person make a difference? In short how and when does political change happen?Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblerstackles these big questions, arguing that ideas and entrepreneurship are the key ingredients in any episode of political change. Authors Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez begin with the first lesson in economics -- incentives matter -- and artfully explain how the lesson applies throughout political life. Incentives explain why democracies often generate policies that impose net costs on society, and why these inefficient policies persist for years. Yet beneficial reform does sometimes occur. SoMadmengoes beyond incentives to offer a framework in which political change channels its way from ideas in society, through societys shared institutions (i.e., its rules of the game), which then shape incentives. This type of change is seldom easy, because new ideas for shaping the rules of the game must overcome two forces in society widely shared beliefs and powerfully vested interests. Yet at certain political moments - perhaps during a crisis, but not always - shared beliefs and vested interests begin to weaken, and the opportunity for reform emerges. Within this framework,Madmenshows why certain inefficient policies eventually get repealed (e.g., airline rate and route regulation), while others endure (e.g., sugar subsidies and tariffs). Drawing on the history of Western political ideas, both in theory and in practice,Madmenmatches up three key ingredients - ideas, rules, and incentives - with the characters who make political waves madmen in authority (such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Margaret Thatcher), intellectuals (like George Will or Jon Stewart), and academic scribblers (in the vein of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes). Political change happens when these characters - called political entrepreneurs - notice areas of weakness in the structure of ideas, rules, and incentives, and then find ways to change the rules of the game in those areas. These entrepreneurs in political change may be philosophers, opinion makers, political leaders, or other types of influencers. What they have in common is an interest in better ideas--ones that improve the human condition--and a vision to change incentives and outcomes.Madmenhelps leaders in business and politics, and opinion-makers everywhere, better understand where the next opportunities are emerging. Students and professors will eat up its history of ideas, from the Ancients Greeks to Adam Smith, and from the Progressives to modern political economy. Using the framework laid out by the authors, readers of all stripes will see how they can be entrepreneurs in promoting effective political change.**
Author: Amir Ahmadi
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span orphans 2 widows 2Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of thespanfont color=#333333 face=Roboto, UILanguageFont, Arial, serifspan 14px orphans 2 widows 2 background- (255, 255, 255)daevasspanfontspan orphans 2 widows 2, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the soul after death and its passage to the other world).spanp border margin 16px padding orphans 2 widows 2p border margin 16px padding Thedaevacult as it appears in the Gathas, the oldest part of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Avesta, had eschatological pretentions. The poet of the Gathas condemns these as deception. The book critically examines various theories put forward since the 19th century to account for the condemnation of thedaevas. It then turns to the relevant Gathic passages and analyzes them in detail in order to give a picture of the cult and the reasons for its repudiation. Finally, it examines materials from other sources, especially the Greek accounts of Iranian ritual lore (mainly) in the context of the mystery cults. Classical Greek writers consistently associate the nocturnal ceremony of the magi with the mysteries as belonging to the same religious-cultural category. This shows that Iranian religious lore included a nocturnal rite that aimed at ensuring the souls journey to the beyond and a desirable afterlife.p border margin 16px padding orphans 2 widows 2p border margin 16px padding Challenging the prevalent scholarship of the Greek interpretation of Iranian religious lore and proposing a new analysis of the formation of the Hellenistic concept of magic, this book is an important resource for students and scholars of History, Religion and Iranian Studies.