2. Windows Phone: Developer Best Practices and How to Maximize Performance
Stefan Wick
Principal Test Manager
Windows Phone Developer Platform
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3. Agenda
Performance
Quality
Reach

4. Performance Memory Image memory optimizations Leak detection Execution
Screen redraw optimizations
Scrolling performance
Tools
Store test kit
Memory profiler
Performance counters
Debug properties

5. Demo Maximizing performance. Focus on: Optimizing memory usage.
Reducing CPU/Battery usage.
Increasing scrolling performance.

6. Quality Unit Testing Other Tips New support in VS 2012 Update 2.
For managed and native code.
Test more configurations in less time.
Other Tips
Beta testing.
App test plan.

7. Demo Phone unit testing. Focus on: Integration into VS 2012.
Practical examples.

8. Reach Devices International Support mid-tier segment.
Optimizing memory is critical.
International
Globalization.
Localization.
 Multilingual App Toolkit.

9. Demo Localization/Globalization Focus on: Tools support
Finding international bugs early

10. Reach Versions: Upgrade to 8.0 for best experience.
Maintain 7.1 version for max reach.
Share the code base, manage differences.

11. Demo Versioning. Focus on: Upgrade to 8.0.
Code sharing between and 8.0 apps.

12. Recap Unit tests in place for regression control.
Memory/performance improved.
App ready for mid-tier devices.
App ready for the world.
App ready for Windows Phone 8.

13. Recap
Your ratings and reviews after this talk.
“Works great as advertised. Smooth and reliable. Only thing missing is feature xyz…”
“Thanks for localizing to my native language.”
“Runs great now on my new Lumia 521.”

14. Resources Multilingual App Toolkit:
Windows Phone Toolkit:

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