Adidas Micoach Management Analysis
Context
Our Customer — adidas — is one of the most well-known sports goods manufacturers for amateur and professional athletes worldwide.
They produce sports equipment and clothes as well as explore highly innovative business spheres, such as development of smart devices. One of their products from this range is adidas miCoach, an innovative hardware device for tracking fitness activity complemented by software solutions to work together with the gadget.
Adidas miCoach is a product range that includes Speed Cell, Pacer Bundle, and Heart Rate Monitor. These devices gather different activity statistics such as speed, number of steps, calories burnt, workout time, distance, and heart rate. The gadgets are connected to a PC/Mac and an iPod/iPhone to transfer the collected data to the miCoach.com. The back-end of the web portal stores the data, analyses the results, and allows creating individual training plans. One can say that the end user gets a professional virtual coach powered by this system. adidas miCoach device management desktop application was developed by a 3rd party service provider, and it provided poor usability, performance and design due to certain technology limitations.
Thus our Customer was in need of a comprehensive and consistent solution that would be up-to-date as far as …show more content…
Iflexion QA engineers performed testing of adidas miCoach mobile applications on iOS, Android, and Symbian. We were responsible for the full cycle QA, including preparation of acceptance testing documentation, integration testing, automated testing scripts launching, usability testing, and manual testing. The QA team was involved in all the development stages, from verification of design and specifications to uploading the final release on the App Store and Google Play
Our Customer — adidas — is one of the most well-known sports goods manufacturers for amateur and professional athletes worldwide.
They produce sports equipment and clothes as well as explore highly innovative business spheres, such as development of smart devices. One of their products from this range is adidas miCoach, an innovative hardware device for tracking fitness activity complemented by software solutions to work together with the gadget.
Adidas miCoach is a product range that includes Speed Cell, Pacer Bundle, and Heart Rate Monitor. These devices gather different activity statistics such as speed, number of steps, calories burnt, workout time, distance, and heart rate. The gadgets are connected to a PC/Mac and an iPod/iPhone to transfer the collected data to the miCoach.com. The back-end of the web portal stores the data, analyses the results, and allows creating individual training plans. One can say that the end user gets a professional virtual coach powered by this system. adidas miCoach device management desktop application was developed by a 3rd party service provider, and it provided poor usability, performance and design due to certain technology limitations.
Thus our Customer was in need of a comprehensive and consistent solution that would be up-to-date as far as …show more content…
Iflexion QA engineers performed testing of adidas miCoach mobile applications on iOS, Android, and Symbian. We were responsible for the full cycle QA, including preparation of acceptance testing documentation, integration testing, automated testing scripts launching, usability testing, and manual testing. The QA team was involved in all the development stages, from verification of design and specifications to uploading the final release on the App Store and Google Play