Open Device Labs as a strategy to enhance the undergraduate and postgraduate student learning experience of software quality assurance and usability for mobile devices

Open Device Labs (ODL) are a resource where users can test their applications on a growing range of internet-connected devices. Quality assurance across real devices is vital to ensure a pleasant user experience. From an educational perspective the Tralee Institute of Technology goal is to provide students with the skills they need to become competent software developers. They should have an appreciation of the end users' experience. This papers looks at using an ODL to enhance student learning of quality assurance and usability.