May 2015 - Adventures in QA

Cloud Test Lab by Google

May 7, 2018May 29, 2015 by Daniel

Cloud Test Lab Google - Adventures in QA

Google is going to launch a new product called Cloud Test Lab which will be available this summer for developers and testers within the Google Play Developer Console. Google will provide the twenty most popular Android devices from around the world that can be used to test your app on real devices. Besides that, there … Read more

Reading Recommendations # 19

May 7, 2018May 28, 2015 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 19th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 9 blog posts and one video. There are posts dealing with the topics if agile teams don’t need testers, what a grandma can teach you about programming and automation, a very interesting post from Neil Studd about testing for dark patterns. There is another post about the evolution of the error, a post about mistakes. Another post is describing a leader’s framework for decision making, Mark Miller is writing about great leadear’s serve. A very interesting article from Maaret Pyhäjärvi about on how wait times improved her testing. The last article is from John Stevenson about technical vs. non-technical testers.

Enjoy reading the posts.

	Agile teams don’t need testers – They need Quality Coach \| Scandinavian Coder
Source: henrikandersson.rocks/?p=241 Author: Henrik Andersson

People in Testing Q&A with Tobias Geyer

May 7, 2018May 26, 2015 by Daniel

This time in “People in Testing” I had the chance to interview Tobias Geyer, who is a former colleague and one of my hardest proof readers of my book. Tobias has a very good testing knowledge and is this kind of guy who is catching the really nasty bugs. If you are on twitter you have to follow him @the_qa_guy.

Daniel: Tobias, what is currently your biggest challenge at work?

Tobias: My biggest challenge right now is to get a better understanding of the domain I’m working in to provide a more valuable testing to my team. The application we’re building is not that complex but it deals with the complex AUTOSAR standard. Each new version has a few features which I can test with my current knowledge and a lot of features where a detailed AUTOSAR knowledge is needed.
Luckily there are other people which support us with testing the AUTOSAR features but I’d really love to have this knowledge in the team as well.

What kind of test automation tool are you using during your workday?

Apart from the omnipresent Jenkins server I’m working with JUnit and froglogic Squish GUI Tester.

Reading Recommendations # 18

May 7, 2018May 23, 2015 by Daniel

The 18th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 7 blog posts. There are posts dealing with the following topics. A post about Kolb’s testing cycle, how to improve your test language for automation, 5 qualities to avoid, a tester’s life from Lisa Crispin, a pair testing article from Katrina Clokie, how to provide a native experience with web technologies and a post from Jurgen Appelo about Backlogs are not waste.

I highly recommend to read the article from Chris about “Improving Your Test Language – Automation“, this is a really good one.

Enjoy reading the posts.

	Kolb’s Testing Cycle
Source: https://enquiretst.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/kolbs-testing-cycle/ Author: Berenvd

Printed Edition of Hands-On Mobile App Testing

May 7, 2018May 22, 2015 by Daniel

My book Hands-On Mobile App Testing is now available in the printed copy edition in all online and offline bookstores. If you visit the book landing page http://handsonmobileapptesting.com/ you get further information about the book as well as a free chapter.

If you are interested in some more details about each chapter you can have a look at the rough cuts on safari books online.

I am very happy and proud that I was able to write this book. While writing the book I improved some of my personal skills. For example, I improved my english writing skills (at least I hope so :)). I learned that it is very important to be focused on a certain topic instead of jumping through chapters. I improved my organizational skills, I learned to be patient, critical to myself and to be tenacious.