Part of LinkedIn’s 3x3 pipeline for building and releasing mobile applications involves making the cycle for testing changes to the app as fast and reliable as possible. Achieving this goal requires a complete automation pipeline for every step, from code commit to production release and every test in between. This pipeline needed to be fast enough to fit inside...

Posts by Drew Hannay
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- Topics:
- Craftsmanship,
- Mobile,
- Android,
- Testing,
- Open Source
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Open Sourcing Test Butler
Drew Hannay August 4, 2016
Automated testing is a key component to LinkedIn’s 3x3 strategy for releasing mobile applications. As we developed the new LinkedIn Android app, we found that our tests had a major problem: our testing environment was unreliable, so our tests failed intermittently. We needed a solution that would let us rely on our tests to inform us when there was a problem...
- Topics:
- Craftsmanship,
- Android,
- Mobile,
- ESPRESSO,
- Testing
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3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases
Drew Hannay February 3, 2016
LinkedIn recently released Project Voyager, our codename for the new version of our flagship application for Android, iOS, and mobile web. Voyager is the result of more than a year of product development work by over 250 engineers. We took the opportunity to rethink the LinkedIn experience from the ground up, not only from a product perspective, but on the...
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3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases
Drew Hannay February 3, 2016
LinkedIn recently released Project Voyager, our codename for the new version of our flagship application for Android, iOS, and mobile...