Merixstudio blog posts

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February 6, 2024

How to build a sales-accelerating platform for residential and commercial PV installers?

They say that a salesperson without enthusiasm is just another clerk. While making deals is a craft in its own right, there’s more to it than meets the eye. The 'how' of the sales process matters tremendously. And just like enthusiasm powers the efforts, good tools make for a smoother ride. If you’re in a solar photovoltaic (PV) niche, performant software should be as important for you as talented salespeople. So, let’s look at how to build a sales-accelerating platform for residential and commercial PV installers.

May 9, 2025

How to keep a mobile app stable as it grows?

When your users rate your mobile app low on the stability scale, it’s not only the question of technical issues that is brought to the fore. Low app ratings affect your business acutely, making the extent to which your users can rely on the product at hand a crucial issue for tech executives and their developer teams. How to develop technically stable mobile apps that are worthy of user appreciation and support your ROI at the same time? Let’s find out!

March 19, 2025

How to secure Flutter apps? Key insights

Feeling that you and your developer teams could do a better job of securing your platforms from attacks? You’ve come to the right place! Explore our security tips for Flutter apps as well as native Android and iOS apps.

2019-10-02

REST API testing with Cypress

Cypress bursts into automated tests as an exciting alternative to well-known Selenium WebDriver. What is so unique in Cypress? Frontend developers created Cypress for frontend developers, but QA specialists can also take benefits from using it. This tool allows us to write JavaScript e2e tests, run them in the Chrome browser, and use Mocha test runner.

2019-09-30

Real devices vs simulator vs emulator in mobile testing

According to GSMA real-time intelligence data, over 5.13 Billion people worldwide own mobile devices (cell phones, tablets or cellular enabled IoT devices). If we consider only these from 3 top producers - Samsung, Apple and Huawei there are more than 1500 models and every year we get a new ones. So it’s obvious that when it comes to mobile testing we are facing problems related to fragmentation of the market - how many devices we need to test our mobile application with? How other testing tools could help us in this process? In this article, we will focus on differences between testing on real mobile devices vs. simulators and emulators.

2019-09-26

Test-driven development in React applications

Tests in software development are a set of small, independent pieces of code that could be run to ensure that part of our system is working properly. They have no impact on application functionality or performance because they are separate from the main application. Testing is the key element in a popular software development process called Test-driven Development. In this article, I’ll introduce its main features and explain how we approach this process in Merixstudio.