User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps

re: User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps

Lachlan01 — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:47:10 GMT

Hi, not sure this is the right forum, but I have a question re. testing a Win 8 app. I have written a game using VB/XAML, which uses rotate/scale/translate transforms to move sprites around. It runs nice and smoothly on my x86 dev machine, with minimal CPU usage.

Is there any way to find out how this will run on ARM, without actually getting hold of an ARM device to test it on? This seems like an oversight and would have been useful to include in the simulator (even if it was as basic as throttling).

I don't want to publish my game to the store only to find out that it is unplayable on ARM. Thanks.

re: User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps

Matt — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:42:35 GMT

The first link in the "Rotation" section is incorrect -- this points to the rotation gesture, not the screen orientation page.

re: User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps

pmbAustin — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:06:21 GMT

@Ed Warren, have you used the Remote Desktop app?

The only thing the Remote Desktop app is missing is the ability to work across the internet (i.e. if you're away at home) the way the old Windows Live Mesh utility allowed.

re: User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps

Ed Warren — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:16:35 GMT

The Killer app for Surface would be to be able to use it as a 'remote control' for a win8 machine. The use case I have is a "Media center" computer I would like to run win8 on but would like to be able to control it from across the room. So go guys write it and I will buy it. :)