Software testing is a process by which we search for software product bugs and improve overall application performance. 

We test to detect negative issues that may affect the experience of using the application and we can tell apart between automated and manual testing. 

In one of our previous articles, we talked about why automated testing makes sense for your startup development. 

We now want to discuss the advantages of these tools as compared to less advanced ones such as manual tools.

Manually testing is done by hand. Quality Assurance specialists ensure that applications work properly by following conditions written in test cases. Manual testing is still crucial, as certain functionality simply cannot be tested automatically. For example, wearables are mobile devices that can require field testing in a physical environment. Mobile applications often undergo ‘monkey tests’ where bottlenecks are detected under stressful conditions only able to happen in the real world. For instance, what if an automated device were to be left in someone's pocket and they accidentally pressed the screen? What would happen - they might just press the button again.

Automated testing is the practice of executing tests through a system instead of manually. Automated tools can execute repetitive tasks and regression tests to check if an application performs correctly after newly implemented changes. 

Here, we are going to discuss automated versus manual testing in detail.

Automated testing is an important part of Test-Driven Development (TDD), which is characterized by the writing of test cases for each unit (unit tests) before the actual code is written. After these unit tests are written, they can be run to see if there are any errors or flaws with them, and then if there aren't any issues, these products will then be debugged for errors or certain improvements that may be needed. Our company heavily utilizes this approach at Distinct Cloud to build numerous products throughout the industry using many different programming languages.

As a rule, our QA team checks if the following types of testing have been performed: 

Unit Testing - Testing of discrete parts (units) of a software product. 

Functional Testing - Software QA testing is performed to detect the actual performance of an application’s functional requirements. Functional testing usually considers accuracy, interoperability, compliance, security, compatibility and suitability. 

Regression testing (a type of functional testing) - Checks if an application performs correctly after being modified or integrated with other software.

Automated GUI testing – Testing the look and feel attributes to see if the app meets whatever standards we need. 

These are just some of the test types we automate to save time and money and to eliminate human error when it comes to code reliability. Now let's see what sorts of problems we can solve when we take advantage of automated testing!

To mitigate time-consuming tasks. After changes and modifications are made to an application, you need to check if it functions properly. By executing automated tests after functional modifications, you can ensure that all aspects of your program’s functionality are up to par. 

To repeatedly execute the same set of tasks. If you're constantly adding the same features or carrying out the same operations in a project, then the handy nature of automated tests makes them great for recurring processes.

-To eliminate human error. Automated tests are powered by tools and scripts, so the chance of missing a bug or a defect decreases. This makes for testing process more reliable and time-efficient. 

For advanced GUI testing." Automated GUI tests detect and record differences in behaviour between platforms—for example, across different web browsers or operating systems. Also, automated GUI testing effectively finds regression errors." 

To test load and performance. There’s essentially no manual alternative for testing load and performance. Automated tests simulate thousands of simultaneous users.

It’s important to remember though that automated testing isn’t always the solution to evaluating a piece of software. For example, it’s not very likely you can automate certain types of manual tests as they require a high level of skill and expertise as well as experience to carry them out correctly. Now, let’s take a look at some (but not all) of the scenarios which might benefit from having both automated and manual testing in your development methodology:

Ad hoc testing – Testing which is executed without preparation and written test cases. During ad hoc testing, a QA specialist randomly tests the functionality of the system; his main aim is to be creative and “break” the system to discover flaws.

Exploratory Testing - this testing technique is sometimes confused with Ad Hoc Testing but they are different; in Exploratory Testing, a QA specialist designs test cases based on his personal experience whilst looking for non-regressions in the previous version of the product. By creating automated tests beforehand he can make sure the process is streamlined and that all aspects of the application are tested equally. This will allow him to maintain focus on what issues need to be addressed in quick succession.

User interface testing – a QA specialist examines interface elements to ensure that the properties and states of these elements are what they should be. Also, a QA team ensures that design elements in their interfaces match up with elements in the final layout.

Although it's assumed that the majority of tests will be automated, manual testing provides just as much value. It can provide an effective quality check of any bugs or improper functions. The trick with manual tests is not to trust the results too blindly without ever double-checking them by seeing if they proved true or not.


UI Acceptance – Visual-based testing is key when it comes to UI acceptance. Manual tests are ideal for this because computers can't detect colours, links, size of signatures, gestures, and highlighting the same way humans can. This means that if you've got a bug in your application that makes a certain link or button so tiny that no person will ever be able to locate it with their eyesight; manual testers will immediately be caught this flaw but machines won't.

Initial development stage — Manual testing helps testers to detect bottlenecks during the initial development stage which results in less time and resources being spent on fixing bugs. In some approaches to software development, automated testing is a part of the process at any stage, but in others, it's not recommended to invest money and human resources in automated testing during an unstable phase of a product's development. However, for the most part, test automation is a highly useful tool that increases productivity within a project.

Short-term projects - While tests are designed to help save time and resources, it takes time and resources to design our automated tests. It's sometimes wise to rely on manual testing for projects that are small or have an extremely tight deadline. Let's talk about some other examples!

Non-automatable cases – Some tests cannot be automated; this especially concerns hardware-related tests. Writing scripts for automated checks of sensors, touchpads, and screens is almost impossible and rarely viable. Also, some data can be tested only manually. For example, you can test if a printer prints, but it’s best to check the quality and content of printed images by hand.

There’s no silver bullet when it comes to testing during the development process. While you can use automated and manual testing methods, sometimes our automated tests aren’t able to cover certain things. When this happens, you need to rely on your manual tests to fill in for any gaps that may exist or if you don’t have the tools necessary. There are also times where you need to combine different kinds of tests - like both automatically programmed and manually programmed – which means there is no single approach for doing these things. But one thing we can all agree on is that no matter how great automated tests are, they cannot fully replace a product manager's intuition about a customer experience.

At Distinct Cloud, we apply automatic testing as part of our Agile development approach. This empowers us to release higher quality software, save time and costs for recruiting and training new developers, and reduce waste by reducing time spent on maintenance provided that tests are maintained alongside the associated codebase. If you'd like to know more about how we use automated testing, microservices, continuous testing or just want advice on how to improve your own team's process then feel free to contact us.

Pros and Cons of Automated and Manual Testing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Heroku are two commonly used cloud services that allow us to deploy, monitor, and scale web and mobile apps. 

Both services provide us with cloud computing resources and are great for hosting applications. 

But if you’re building your first mobile or web application, how can you decide which of these options – AWS or Heroku – is best for your application? 

Choosing a hosting service becomes even harder when we take a glimpse at the number of products Amazon Web Services offer. It’s easy to get lost.

AWS and Heroku both provide a wide variety of products, making it difficult to quickly choose the right solution for your needs. How can we possibly choose between them? 

To learn more about their features and what they have to offer, let's take a moment to examine some of their key solutions.

If we search for a comparison of hosting providers, let’s compare which one stands out where. As with any product comparison, you have to identify how they are similar and how they differ; if their goals are different. We're able to come to decisions about whether one product is the best option over the other, or perhaps whether it’s time to give that competitor chance.

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a product that provides infrastructure as a service to individuals, organizations, and companies that allow users to quickly create a scalable IT infrastructure. Before we're able to deploy an application on Elastic Compute Cloud, there are a few things we need to take care of first in order to make sure the servers we'll be using will be able to handle the needs of our application from day one.

But what does that mean? The project team has to create virtual machines (also known as VMs) that run the app. They'll need to choose and install an operating system; configure a database, which can be tricky; and set up a load balancer, which is like an advanced router. The whole thing will grind to a halt if one VM goes down. Next, they install backup servers and hook them up to the main servers.

Elastic Compute Cloud does not require much in terms of preparation in order to be used. You can simply make use of the web services online without any installation. However, the choice is an important part of any service and when it comes to using AWS one may quickly realize that you have a plethora of different tools at your disposal. This makes it all the more important to know what you are doing or at least have someone who knows how these building blocks should interact with each other - much like an architect who designs how these building blocks should come together to build a functional house!

Now that we know what Heroku is, let’s look more into the specific benefits it has to offer for startups compared with traditional EC2. The first thing you might find interesting is that Heroku only supports Ruby. However, the second thing you should take notice of is that Heroku doesn’t use the traditional On-Demand method, but instead uses a utility called ‘Pre-Prod Mode’.

Heroku is way less complex to get started with than AWS Elastic Compute Cloud. It might be a bit simple. Though the reason for this simplicity is because Heroku equips developers with a ready runtime environment and application servers, seamless integration with multiple development services, a pre-installed operating system and redundant servers. 

So we don’t need to do any of the heavy lifting of managing our infrastructure, unlike on AWS EC2. We just need to pick a plan and change it when necessary.

This is how a conversation with Heroku might go: 

– Hey, we need to rapidly send a lot of cached data to our users! 

– Hey, we need more dynos to handle HTTP traffic! 

– Yeah, just run the following command in CLI and specify the number of instances, e.g. three web dynos: $ heroku ps:scale web=3 

– And what about a PostgreSQL instance?

– You need one and I’d like it to be hobby-dev; run this command in CLI: $ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev 

– We need to restart our dynos! A new app version is coming! 

– Just deploy your updated app, I’ll handle this.

As we can see, Heroku conveniently takes care of the details. Similarly, there are third-party solutions that help when it comes to deployment tasks. All you need to do is use Git and not worry about using the command line interface when deploying your code to an Openshift account .

Comparing AWS Elastic Compute Cloud to Heroku is like comparing a microwave to a toaster. Both devices are used for heating food, but they work differently. Keep in mind that although AWS's EC2 and Heroku products do have features in common, they fundamentally serve different purposes. 

In addition, AWS offers another platform as a service product called Elastic Beanstalk which provides an environment for deploying and maintaining applications built with languages such as PHP and NodeJS.

In short, Heroku vs AWS is like Heroku vs Elastic Beanstalk. AWS offers Elastic Beanstalk to simplify the deployment of applications onto the platform. 

To deploy an application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can either run CLI (command line interface) on your operating system or use their web console. Once the application has been deployed on Elastic Beanstalk, it manages cloud infrastructure automatically, which you can't control manually.

We don’t generally set up things like load balancing and scalability – we’ve still got access to infrastructure making beanstalk great for rarely-used servers. It also saves us multiple configuration options for our application as the service uses AWS EC2 instances to run your app; if we wanted to migrate from the beanstalk, it would be easy as development environments are set up using the same private key as your production environment.

When choosing between AWS and Heroku, you need to determine whether the build-out of your infrastructure will cost you more than just hire cloud services. As the saying goes, time is money, so if working with an established platform means that you can stop "creating" your application in favour of actually "discovering" what customers want in this space then it makes sense to do so!

In summary, you should consider using AWS Elastic Compute Cloud when: 

You want to be able to deploy your app quickly. 

You have a developer or a team of developers who can take the time to curate your infrastructure. 

You’re looking to keep pace with technological trends and can afford to pay for updated hardware. 

You need access to the latest cloud-based technologies.

You need to deploy and test a Minimum Viable Product 

Your application needs to be enhanced quickly after feedback from your target audience (for example you might need more scalable backend processing power or you may want to increase the size of your developer team). 

You can’t afford a DevOps engineer (or engineers).  

Provisioning and maintenance of systems and code are very time-consuming for you.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is becoming increasingly popular in the world of web app technology, so much so that many are making the switch to this cloud-based platform. When choosing your provider, you have to ensure they have experience managing AWS! There are plenty of hosting plans out there for any budget, so if you’re not sure where to start do some research but remember to choose the right service right away.

Heroku or Amazon Web Services – Which is Best for Your Startup?

There are more options than ever when it comes to choosing a technology stack for your project. However, the easiest way to decide is by looking into what companies that have already succeeded use to build their products. For example, this article explains why Namely has used React for their enterprise product and covers there benefits of using it in depth. 

The appearance of React™ changed the process of creating user interfaces significantly through built-in libraries that allow you to create complex user interface interactions from small code known as components. Each component can contain its distinctive style and functionality all without refactoring the rest of the development codebase because it’s created using JavaScript™ making developing highly reactive UIs easier than ever before!

The history of React is a long and exciting one, beginning in 2011 when Facebook officials realized they needed a solution to the complicated code that was being used for the Facebook Ads app. A new JavaScript library was what they needed! As rapid growth ensued, so did an urgent need for updates to the growing application. This is how JSX modules came to be!

Today, "React" technology is on the rise. With more than 146,000 followers and more than 1,365 contributors on GitHub.

There are more than 1.5 million websites that use React, and this number is increasing as time goes on. The reasons for its popularity has a lot to do with the benefits of React:

Unlike Angular.js and Ember.js, which incorporate additional components and functionalities to ease the development process, Facebook’s React is a front-end library that makes it easy for customers to develop user interfaces quickly and effectively without making it very difficult. Thanks to its simple and minimalist design, even novice front-end programmers can add functionality such as AJAX changes or add-ons without much hassle.

Effortlessly getting things done on time matters. This is especially important for startups, who need to launch their products and test them on the market as quickly as possible, which is why everyone is looking for ways to make it easier on themselves. React has a considerable advantage in this respect since it allows you to create reusable code fragments called components.

#3 Allows for creating fast, high-performance, scalable apps

One of the most important features of React is its virtual DOM. 

The virtual DOM is a dummy copy of the real DOM and helps to keep track of whether (and which) parts of your website need to change and how this particular set-up has to be displayed. This way, only the part that’s been coded changes, whereas the rest remains intact. In terms of being able to offer instant access, React allows users to browse instantaneously.

Your site has many components, and when it comes to your website’s content and structure being assessed so you can be ranked by search engines, SEO is very important! 

React is thorough in addressing all of these different parts. Server-side rendering (SSR), which is the method used with React whenever rendering of your site occurs, makes sure that each page or element of your site is guaranteed to be completely rendered on the server before sending out the content for indexing by various search engines, giving you more accurate search engine results.

React allows developers to create reusable components. This results in fewer bugs and improves code stability. The possibility to reuse components also cuts down the time needed for app testing. Once unit tests have proved a certain component to work without crashing, it can be reused in other parts of the app with no additional testing.

The majority of reacting developers prefer to use JSX, a syntax extension for JavaScript. JSX makes it easier to alter the DOM by allowing developers to create JavaScript objects with HTML-like syntax that is more readable. This way the code is written slicker making React more user-friendly. An element rewritten in JSX may look something like this:

<h2 className="greeting">Hello, world!</h2>

Same element written in pure JavaScript will look something like this:

This is a simple example, but the same rules apply when you have lots of components nested within one another. The code can get even more tedious to read.

The benefits of React have helped it earn a reputation as one of the most powerful front-end frameworks for web application development. Below is a list of popular websites that use React.

Facebook is a social network that was created for Harvard students. It has since grown to be the most popular of its kind. Facebook released the React library, which makes software engineers wonder why they ever bothered with anything else at all. Since React is so incredibly easy to use, Facebook has made it part of every product it creates. 

Using React helps Facebook create responsive user interfaces so their users can enjoy high-powered websites and receive unparalleled customer service experienced by billions of users worldwide daily!

As of 30 September 2019, Facebook had 2.45 billion monthly active users and this number continues to increase by 8% every year. According to data from the Pew Research Center, 74% of Facebook users visit Facebook regularly. 

The Facebook team puts a lot of effort into growing React and provides tons of helpful information for new developers who want to get started with it.

An app created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram is a social network where users share pictures and videos of different scenes from their own lives. In 2012, Instagram was purchased by Facebook for 1 billion dollars. They decided there were two steps to get more attention from the internet: developing a web application and creating an Android version of the app.

As React proved its worth for Facebook, the company used it for the Instagram web application. According to internal Instagram statistics, there were over one billion monthly active users on Instagram as of June 2018. 

This means that React has proven itself worthy for just one startup but many companies have found that it's powerfully versatile too!

Netflix is a streaming service that allows users to watch online TV, movies, documentaries and other video content. In 2018, Netflix accounted for 15% of the total downstream traffic globally. 

As of 2019, Netflix has more than 167 million subscribers. A streaming giant like Netflix must maintain high product performance as this is one of the most critical challenges of a provider like them.

In 2015, Netflix wanted to modernize its TV user interface. To achieve the company's goals, they decided to use more advanced tools and techniques as React which helped improve performance as well as upgrade the UI.

Uber launched in 2009 as a peer-to-peer ridesharing application for the iPhone. It has since expanded to offer services including food delivery, grocery delivery, bike-sharing, bus service, pooling services and other transportation services. 

As of 2018, it operates in 88% of markets globally with several billion-dollar investments from prominent technology players. Uber is also responsible for the development of the open-source React framework which helps engineers build site features rapidly. 

One of Uber’s main goals is to provide seamless service across multiple devices without extended load times or dropped connections -- all while maximizing profit by lowering costs and reducing prices.

The New York Times is among the leading newspapers around the globe.

 In 2017, the newspaper set out to refresh its online presence and adopt a new interface to help promote a better browsing experience for users. React was one of the key technologies used to develop this new design. 

As of 2018, The New York Times boasts more than 3.8 million subscribers who have signed up for their premium paid service to access readers' favourite publications from its growing archive.

Reddit is like a social network, but it includes additional functionality related to content sharing (such as images, videos, and more). Users can vote on whether or not they agree with the content that has been posted in any given Subreddit. The website was founded in 2005 by former roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian when they were in college at the University of Virginia. 

Reddit became so popular that in November 2017 its users numbered over 430 million each month! To create this seamless user experience, Reddit relies on React content sharing software.

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people looking to rent out their homes. Airbnb claims to have registered over half a billion guests since its launch and is accessible in more than 220 countries. 

Since 2015, the engineers at Airbnb have been using React for web application development. To make React even better, they’ve created additional tools (like Enzyme) that are built around React. 

The open-source community has access to these tools as well, increasing popularity among developers who might not be savvy with creating powerful testing suites on their own or who appreciate having an established workflow for their projects so they don't continually waste time on reinventing the wheel!

Salesforce is a customer relationship management system with a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It allows businesses to connect with their customers, partners, and prospects. 

In 2019, more than 150,000 companies were using Salesforce to manage their businesses. 

The Salesforce team uses the React library along with the Visualforce framework to speed up the complex rendering process for Visualforce pages. The Visualforce framework is part of Salesforce’s Force.com platform as a service (PaaS). Salesforce engineers use React along with the Visualforce framework to improve the performance of their products.

Dropbox is a cloud storage service that helps save and transfer data online. 

They pride themselves on their elegant interface, intuitive controls, and the ability to view the content from any device with an internet connection. In 2019 alone they have been able to reach nearly 600 million users worldwide across 180 countries. Around 14 million of those users were premium subscribers who receive special extra benefits for a small monthly fee. 

The Dropbox engineering team benefit from reusable React components. These components help with accessibility for their dropdown menus and tree views among other things – as they can be implemented in different parts of the website interface – which helps expedite development time as opposed to having to reinvent the wheel for each required component!

CNN is a news organization that reaches millions of people all over the globe. 

In October 2019, CNN Digital had more than 200 million monthly subscribers. 

CNN's website uses React combined with other bleeding-edge technologies to provide breaking news details and a superior UX to its readers.

In this article, we talked about the many benefits of React and why so many people have started using it to build their websites. Now it’s your turn to decide whether React is worth your attention. For those of you who have been thinking about getting started with React, now is as good a time as any!

The 10 Most Famous Websites Built with React

Today we rely on technology more than ever. 

Our lives would be more difficult without all of the helpful gadgets and machines that make life easier. 

We see improvements in every industry due to modern technology, but none greater than our healthcare system. 

As patients, we can't wait to go home and use our new mobile photo printers; hospitals use robots to serve food and medicine, and doctors use robotic arms to deliver diagnoses through video calls instead of physically coming into the lab!

This is partially due to the increasing need for medical app development agencies in the USA. 

New advancements in technology and science will help patients and their caretakers manage treatments and self-care, reducing stress which may arise when they require assistance from other caring persons or anonymous professionals.

Many healthcare software development services companies find that incorporating innovations in medicine and telehealth services with existing physical ones through mobile apps can be a valuable asset. 

In the future of medicine, smart technologies such as smartphone sensors, cloud storage applications, and data analysis will play an important role in bringing forward digital and innovative health services.

As per reports by Global Market Insights, the innovative technology of the Surgical Robots Market size exceeded USD 4.6 billion in 2020 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of over 17.4% between 2021 and 2027. 

The global IoT in the healthcare market size is projected to reach USD 534.3 billion by 2025 expanding at a CAGR 19.9% over the forecast period, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc.

A new study shows that, by 2026, global telemedicine markets will grow from the current $89 billion to $400 billion. This is faster than we expected! 

Another report by Global Market Insights states that the growing adoption of surgical robots in gynaecology procedures will offer significant market revenue opportunities. The gynaecology segment is estimated to witness around a 17.5% growth rate through 2027 led by the increased usage of robotically assisted surgeries for gynaecological procedures.

According to MarketsandMarkets, the healthcare business innovating cloud computing is predicted to be worth $64.7 billion by 2025 growing at a CAGR of 18.1%.

Blockchain in healthcare is a powerful solution in medicine in general. The goal of blockchain software in healthcare is a decentralized accounting system that manages medical records. This happens when an authorized command to the government or EMR opens the built-in data store.

Innovative technology powered by blockchain helps everyone in the healthcare industry from developers, to patients, health care providers and their services. CURES Token ecosystem connects all stakeholders to offer value-driven services that reward its users while saving both time and money. The platform gives added value to every relevant interest group. 


It is now possible to have high-speed internet and great healthcare without wires! Mobile applications now enable patients and practitioners to communicate quickly and more efficiently than ever, which is bound to make a big difference in the lives of those who need it most.

Qualcomm and Dr David, Professor at Haas School of Business and Chief Executive Officer of the Berkley Research Group, collaborated with this article entitled “5G Mobile Impact on Health Care Sector”, outlining how $650 billion in savings will be generated by 2025 as the focus moves from volumetric healthcare to value-based healthcare as per Goldman Sachs’ estimation.

Hybrid Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery System

The most promising breakthrough in healthcare innovation technology will be a hybrid insulin delivery system commonly known as an artificial pancreas. This is the next step in developing a fully automated delivery system.

This innovative health system is designed for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. An automatic insulin delivery system that connects a constant glucose meter to an insulin pump, removing the necessity for diabetic people to self-test and monitor insulin levels. Studies have shown that this system stabilizes blood sugar levels and lowers A1C levels by an additional 0.5%.

Medtronic, for example, recently secured FDA approval for its MiniMed 670G hybrid closed loop system which offers a unique way to manage Type 1 diabetes. This product is a significant development in the evolution of artificial pancreas systems because, while it is not a standalone device capable of controlling blood sugar levels without carbohydrate intake or a baseline blood sugar level reading, it brings artificial insulin sensitivity closer.

Nanomedicine is a dedicated medical application for health care technologies that use the principles of nanotechnology. In 2022 it will be used as a diagnostic tool as well as a therapeutic resource for dedicated nano-based medical innovations, assisting clinicians in their day to day work.

Researchers are now looking for new ways to target individual cells with nanomedicine, and research is beginning in 2021. Cyt Immune Sciences, which was recently acquired by pharmaceutical company Stemedica, launched a Phase 1 study on the use of gold nanoparticles to target drug delivery to tumours. Biopharmaceutical company BlueWillow Biologics also developed nano-technology to fight viruses and bacteria.

The idea of bringing a lab to the samples is the brainchild of researchers at Stanford University who recently developed a so-called “lab on a chip” based on the CRISPR enzyme Cas12. The device is about half the size of a credit card, containing a complex network of channels less than one human hair wide, can detect coronavirus in less than 30 minutes, and involves the new state-of-the-art MEMS technology.

The medical researchers say that the diagnostic can also be used to screen for other infections by recalibrating the CRISPR enzyme to various genetic markers. 

As the COVID-19 epidemic has taught us, testing is an important step in fighting an epidemic. Lab-on-a-Chip makes these tests fast, safe, economical, and effective.

Gene Therapy for Inherited Retinal Diseases

Gene therapy for hereditary retinal disease will make treating this rare condition easier. There are currently no known cures for this genetic ailment, but the effort researchers are putting in to study specific genetic causes may make restoring vision to the afflicted possibly someday soon.

Dr Aleksandra Rachitskaya of the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute recently talked about gene therapy in light of new information regarding retinal implants and stem cell therapy. A new technique called optogenetics making cells function as others may soon offer hope for curing blindness.

Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is transforming healthcare by helping medical facilities monitor their technology, prevent errors, locate employees and patients, and keep track of other resources. We look forward to seeing more businesses begin implementing IoMT solutions like Microsoft’s Azure IoT that will greatly improve the health of individuals worldwide.

The below image shows the healthcare and medical services in hospitals as a practice. The image shows a patient with diabetes have an ID card that is scanned and links to a secure cloud under which his or her electronic health record including vitals and lab results, medical and prescription histories are saved. A physician or nurse can access this record easily on a tablet or a computer to keep track of it efficiently whenever required.

All tech giants and smaller companies are getting involved in the booming virtual and physical healthcare sector. Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri are paving the way for a revolution when it comes to technology in medicine. To help you keep up with all the innovations in this sector, there are health research kits that use technology in medicine, medical discoveries, wondrous inventions which helps investors see what is coming down the pipeline so they can invest accordingly in health innovation stocks.

The healthcare industry is moving at lightning speeds when it comes to how technology is changing its business practices. Mobile health and mobile internet technologies, in addition to global population growth and increasing membership of the middle class worldwide, is causing a rise in the demand for healthcare app developers and healthcare software development companies. The growing demand for all things medical has taken off in recent years.

Innovations That Will Change Healthcare In 2022

Wondering why you should consider Flutter for your next product when considering the best solution? Regardless of whether you're in charge of making IT-related business decisions or if you’re a developer, it can be helpful to compare potential solutions against one another. We hope this page will help shed some more light on the subject of Flutter's features and functionality.

First and foremost, we’ll help you discern what Flutter is and why it is the most powerful platform for building mobile apps. You’ll learn about Flutter’s advantages compared to other platforms and the role these benefits play in both development and business processes. 

Above all else, you’ll encounter why Flutter can be an effective solution for some common issues that may continually occur in your organization.

Throughout my career as a software developer, I’ve witnessed many recurring difficulties that product owners go through before choosing what programming language to use for their products. All of the projects were different, but almost all of them had something important in common: the resulting apps need to not only run on desktop devices but also be optimized for mobile devices because nowadays most consumer spending is on smartphones and tablets. So it’s no surprise!

In addition to working on smartphone apps, I also had some experience in mobile game development. I remember seeing a well-established cross-platform game development for the first time in 2016, which was when I thought it would be very important to have an instrument that would allow us to create apps using one convenient solution.

Well, now we have it. And I want to share the joy of working on Flutter with you so that you make the most benefit of the innovation. In this article, I highlight my thoughts on what advantages of Flutter are going to make it dominate the cross-platform application development in the upcoming years.

Coming from a career of developing mostly on Android, I can say that Flutter allows me to build high-quality applications with a native performance by using my existing knowledge of game development. The platform was developed with intuitive design principles in mind so that users feel at home regardless of the device they're using.

You might assume that every framework can perform some things and offer certain features. We see your point, but Flutter is a bit different from its competitors in some key areas. We are here to share with you why Flutter app development is better than any other frameworks you've used so far.

1. Same UI and Business Logic in All Platforms

We, experts, know that basically any cross-platform framework provides a way to share codebase between the target platforms. But there are no such application frameworks that allow sharing both the UI and user interface. 

To illustrate, here's an example of how UI rendering looks like in most cross-platform frameworks:

This kind of rendering process makes building an app that looks native on every platform easy. But there is a long list of things you must do before you embark on this endeavour, which includes identifying if the app will be calling remote services or have been built from scratch by focusing on quality or performance. The devil’s in the details, however, and if you don’t have someone overseeing your project, then it might fall apart at some point down the line. That would prove to be disastrous for the success of your company.

In contrast, Flutter doesn’t need any platform-specific UI components to render its UI. The only thing Flutter needs to show the application is a canvas onto which it can draw. And here’s how it looks:

The Flutter app developer will be thankful for its ability to render a user interface consistently on different platforms. Not having to worry about the consistency of the UI in a short time with Flutter, it is possible to share the same architecture and not worry about it affecting the performance of the end product.

From my experience, building a normal-sized android app with the use of Android Studio can take 4.9 seconds to get it ready on a test device. It is normal for some people to think that it takes forever just to adjust a minor visual aspect in your layout, but there is a solution for that! 

Flutter's "hot reload" feature allows you to see the applied changes almost instantly. The feature saves time and allows users to quickly update their application without losing other information from the application itself.

Besides, the Flutter framework includes lots of ready-to-use widgets. Most of them are incredibly customizable, saving you time unlike any other framework before. In addition to numerous core layout widgets, Flutter also provides a large set of Material and Cupertino widgets that mimic the behaviour of each design language to match your project’s needs. Here’s how they work :

In a nutshell, using Flutter allows you to skip several time-consuming steps when developing an app, which makes the entire process faster, simpler and less worrisome.

Say goodbye to cross-platform app development blues. Flutter makes it easier to build apps that look high-quality on all screens. When you use Flutter, there is only one build process - so no more developing code for each targeted platform separately. No need for multiple device form factors or specific configurations. We can develop native Android third party libraries without any modifications in the Flutter app, which results in shorter development times with consistently optimized performance!

Flutter is great because the UI rendering is declarative, which means you won’t have to worry about tweaking and updating its visuals for any visual changes. This is especially true when compared to other options like native iOS and Android development. 

Performance is the very core of any application, whatever it is meant for. It can have a great impact on how well your software is received by users. Flutter applications are very fast because they don’t have to go through an additional interpretation process that may take time, which costs crucial processing power or memory. Using this software that has been coded natively into the machine code allows for greater performance.

Eventually, you get your release application fully compiled ahead of time with Flutter.

5. Custom, Animated UI of Any Complexity Available

One of the advantages of Flutter is its ability to customize your user interface, even if it's rather complex. It rather depends on how you want it to be presented. While it can be achieved using native platforms, the process takes too long. Here is an example of a complex yet quickly customized user interface experience:

Flutter makes it easy for you to animate the UI elements, including moving a widget from a start state to a finished state or from an initial position to a final position. It comes with built-in transition options you can use, but if needed, you can make your transitions too. 

Flutter gives you so many possibilities in mobile development that aren’t available on other platforms. It requires a well-rounded framework to be so powerful, and even more so when working with a high-performance cross-platform rendering engine. To accomplish this, Flutter must have a versatile UI toolkit to work with. 

-Flutter uses Skia for rendering itself onto a platform-provided canvas.- Because of the engine, UI built-in Flutter can be launched on virtually any platform regardless of its size or resolution.- Putting it differently, you no longer have to adjust your UI to transfer it from place to place because everything will already be ready regardless of what device or platform is being used.

7. Simple Platform-Specific Logic Implementation

Besides the UI, many real-life mobile apps make use of advanced OS-level features such as fetching GPS coordinates, Bluetooth communication, gathering sensors data, permission handling and work with credentials. Many of these are available when you develop a flutter application through a ready-to-use plugin supported by Google.

Of course, if there are OS-level features that your app relies on which you do not yet have as plugins then this is where using previously established channels becomes useful. Flutter provides channels that can be used for sending messages between platform-native code and Dart. They act like pipes that transmit data between the two elements by creating bi-directional links with them. This way you can implement native features on a Flutter app with just a little more work than what it would take to create them for an app hosted on the web only. For example, here’s an example of how channels work:

8. The Potential Ability to Go Beyond Mobile

The Flutter app development platform has grown tremendously since it was revealed in May 2017. Now, one year later, Flutter is available for both mobile and web apps, and can be used to make desktop applications too! For example, Google announced at this year’s I/O conference that they are offering a technical preview of an early version of Flutter for Web where you can run pure Flutter apps straight from the Google Chrome browser without having to modify your source code.

Even though everything except the mobile part of the framework is not considered production-ready, an experienced Dart developer can make a pure Dart app run on any major platform today using Google Cloud Pub/Sub, including Android, iOS, Web browser, Windows, macOS, Linux, and even embedded devices. And the app will function properly with no changes to Dart code.

Is Flutter a Good Solution From the Business Perspective?

Some things positively influence your business model in a significant manner. These are most often the stability of the platform, its performance, a wide talent pool – it’s relatively easy to hire Flutter developers - and the guarantee of successful further tech/product development and improvement. The reason is that technology issues provoke the occurrence of risks, along with direct financial losses for your company.

From this point of view, Flutter lowers risks for your business: 

no problems with product development are likely to occur since Google is creating Fuchsia OS, which works with Flutter just fine 

using Flutter won’t cause you trouble finding engineers because there are already so many fans among Android developers in the community (check feedback here and here) 

ease of integration: Alibaba, Google Ads, AppTree, Reflectly, My Leaf - these are only a few of the global companies currently working with Flutter.

All these aspects make Flutter a solution for any and every business to prevent obstacles to seeking specialists, adjusting to new technologies and integrating the tool into the system. Compared to the alternative cross-platform approaches available, Flutter poses minimal risks to a business and therefore is worth considering as an option if one needs a viable way of reducing risks as much as possible for one's particular project.

Let’s cover the greatest advantages of the framework: your app UI & logic don’t change depending on the platform, faster code development, increased time-to-market speed, close to native app performance, enormous UI customization potential, separate rendering engine, no reliance on platform-specific UI components, appropriate for any target platform

Simply put, Flutter is an open and easy-to-use mobile UI framework. Given how much time and effort we all devote to apps nowadays, I’m confident that Flutter will soon become the global standard for mobile development.

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In Agile development, release planning is crucial. Without it, the delivery of your features can be unpredictable. This is why as a software product manager you may feel like you're spending a lot more time on the details of the software build process in general - there are so many steps and without a proper plan, it can be difficult to know how best to get all your built features out the door! One way you can help ensure release planning happens properly is by building some of your own templates or checklists that clearly detail important tasks that need doing continuously throughout this phase of development, the key milestones in terms of testing, release and post-release marketing that needs investing in too and even what questions lead times must be factored into for discussion.

There are multiple definitions of what software release planning is. Let’s define it most simply. Release planning can be defined as both setting up a schedule for several sequential software releases and doing your best to meet that schedule.

Setting and clarifying objectives: Product Managers can help achieve this by matching product objectives with those of their team and ultimately the business itself when it comes to needs, wants, and insights on the target audience.

Creating a killer high concept. All team members need to clearly understand the vision before they can take it to the next level, where prototyping can help flesh out and refine any details in your project that might have been harder for other people to see.

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