It’s time to give back

Dear testing community, it’s time to give back. Yesterday, late evening I saw the following tweet from Kristoffer Nordström a fellow tester of our awesome testing community. Last week we got the worst possible news. My precious Linnea has DIPG. Our last hope now is asking you to help us: https://t.co/ZmJMnt34O2 — Kristoffer Nordström (@kristoffer_nord) … Read more

[Reblog] How to convince your colleagues to write Automated Tests or why would you use Cucumber as an Automation Tool

Ways of Testing - Cucumber

This post is a reblog from Serghei Moret, who is my colleague at XING. Serghei is an awesome test automation engineer developing really helpful solutions for our mobile app environment for iOS and Android. Lately he started to write on his own blog http://www.waysoftesting.com/. In his first post he is writing about “How to convince your colleagues to write Automated Tests or why would you use Cucumber as an Automation Tool”.

I really like the first post from Serghei and I want to help him spread the word about his blog and about his work and effort he is putting in mobile test automation. If you haven’t seen his blog, check it out.

Here is a short excerpt of the blog, the full article can be found here.

How to convince your colleagues to write automated tests? I think that a lot of people have asked this question and probably already found a dozen of correct and incorrect answers. In this article I’ll try to describe the way, how the automation framework was successfully implemented for several teams in different companies. Also I’ll speak about the reasons why you might use Cucumber in a wrong way. […]

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Reading Recommendations # 80

Reading Recommendations

This is the 80 issue of my reading recommendations contains 6 very interesting blog posts. This time with “How to Monitor Mobile App Traffic With Sniffers”, “One Year Software Quality Page – Behind the scenes”, “Continuous Delivery for Mobile Apps using Fastlane”, “What You Need To Know When Planning Your Test Lab in 2017”, “Open Sourcing Bluepill: Run iOS Tests in Multiple Simulators” and “Introduction to Android Espresso Testing and Spoon”.

Enjoy reading the posts and send me new ones that are worth reading and I will mention you and link to your social links or blog.

How to Monitor Mobile App Traffic With Sniffers - Reading RecommendationsHow to Monitor Mobile App Traffic With Sniffers

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33 Test Automation Leaders to Follow on Twitter

What a nice start into the day, when you take a look at your smartphone and seeing a tweet like this Congratulation @dnlkntt to be one of 33 test automation leaders you need to follow on Twitter. https://t.co/rDZH1IcCKe What a start for 2017 — Dirk Meissner (@dirkmeissner) January 12, 2017 I somehow missed this list … Read more

Reading Recommendations # 79

Reading Recommendations

This is the 79 issue of my reading recommendations contains 6 very interesting blog posts and one video about mobile app security. Please watch this video! Thanks to all the bloggers out there writing the great content. This issue include the topics: “The Testing Pendulum: Finding balance in exploration”, “How to Efficiently Test Your Mobile App for Battery Drain?”, “Android Test Sharding on Genymotion Cloud Virtual Devices”, “Should test automation be left to developers?”, “Test Automation Leadership” and “More than just Ranking — The Different Stages of App Store Optimization”.

Enjoy reading the posts and send me new ones that are worth reading and I will mention you and link to your social links or blog.

The Testing Pendulum: Finding balance in exploration - Reading RecommendationsKatrina the Tester: The Testing Pendulum: Finding balance in exploration

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