Lookin' Good: UI Verification in GHUnit
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Jim B., Engineering Manager
- Dec 15, 2011
Here at Yelp, we build some popular mobile apps. We have around 5 million monthly unique users and about 1/3 of all Yelp searches come from mobile. Our apps continue to grow in complexity as we add new features. We try our best to test before releases, however, sometimes UI breaks and we don’t notice. For example, in a recent release, we had the ‘Get Directions’ button disappear from our iPad app! [Screenshot] We finally noticed it missing when we got a report from a user. We were fairly embarrassed that we hadn’t caught the problem ourselves. This was a problem...