Month: November 2011

How to re-sign a Android apk file for testing

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In the last days I got some questions about how to resign the apk file you want to test. And here is the answer. First some basic about the signatures in Android development! A signature is needed to identify the author of the Android application. A signature mostly contains information like:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Name of the organization
  • City
  • State
  • Country Code

For more information please have a look at the Android SDK developer guide http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html

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Agile Testing Days 2011

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Last week from November 14th to November 17th I was attending at the Agile Testing Days 2011 in Potsdam! If you are working in an agile software development team in different roles e.g. tester, developer, agile coach or product owner, I really recommend to go to the next Agile Testing Days 2012 to meet great people and to exchange on certain test topics.

My conference started on Monday with a tutorial from Michael Bolton with the topic: “Critical Thinking Skills for Testers”. To make it short: This tutorial was AWESOME!

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Robotium 3.0 is out there!

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Since November 16th the latest version of Robotium 3.0 is released. This new version of Robotium provides several new and improved methods to test your Android app. As Renas Reda in the jayway blog says: “Robotium is now faster, lighter and more stable then ever!” I hope that is true because the previous versions of Robotium were really slow in the execution, even on real devices. So let’s see what’s new!

The following two methods are new to wait for views:

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Mobile Developer Conference 2012 Hamburg

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Last week my paper for the Mobile Dev Con 2012 (Feb) in Hamburg was accepted. The talk is about mobile test automation using the tool robotium. In the next weeks I will start preparing some facts about robotium and also a really cool Live Demo Session that show the possibilities of the tool. For more information about robotium check http://code.google.com/p/robotium. Or read a recent blogpost of how to setup robotium http://dnlkntt.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/how-to-setup-a-test-environment-for-android-using-robotium/

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