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Reading Recommendations # 61

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What a week! It seems that many great software testers out there had time to write some awesome blog posts. The 61st edition of my reading recommendations contains 10 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There are topics about “The Problem With Best Practices”, “balance between testing activities”, “hiring technical testers”, “The “Mindset” Mindset”, “The craziest bug I have ever seen”, “Why is Manual QA Still So Prevalent?”, “Software Testing Learning MindMap”, “The abysmal state of ‘testing’ in 2016”, “MVP or not?! – A misunderstood pic goes viral” and “Something is off with conference talk selection”.

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.

Best practices don't make you the best. - Reading RecommendationsThe Problem With Best Practices | Fast Company | Business + Innovation Best practices don’t make you the best. They make you the average of everyone else who follows them.
Source: www.fastcompany.com/3052222/hit-the-ground-running/the-problem-with-best-practices

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10 Mobile App Testing Mistakes to Avoid

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This article will cover 10 common mobile app testing mistakes to avoid when you are a software tester working in a mobile app testing and development environment. The 10 points may help you to start your mobile testing activities if you are new to mobile testing or they may help you to recap your existing mobile testing approaches.

1. Miss the platform UI/ UX guidelines

No matter if you are testing an Android, iOS or Windows phone app you as tester must know the different platform guidelines. Those guidelines include the interaction and the design as well as common development patterns. If you don’t know them you can test your app against those requirements. However, every app must be aligned with the different platform guidelines.

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Reading Recommendations # 60

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The 60th edition of my reading recommendations contains 4 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. Unfortunately I had no time to read more blog posts this week but I want to share the following with you: “The Icky and Good Words In Software Testing”, “Using Google Cloud Test Lab with TeamCity”, “What problems do we have with our test automation?” and “Test Automation – Am I the only one?”.

I highly recommend to read the posts from Katrina and Patrick about test automation, both are really valuable and should keep us thinking about the way we automate things and what is the goal of automation.

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 Icky and Good Words In Software Testing - Reading RecommendationsThe Icky and Good Words In Software Testing – Ministry of Testing
Source: www.ministryoftesting.com/2016/04/icky-good-words-software-testing/

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Reading Recommendations # 59

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The 59th edition of my reading recommendations contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There are topics like “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Software Testing Industry”, “Kicking testers out and making developers testers too”, “Do you love your testing job?”, “Where there’s Smoke there’s Fire!”, “An idea that didn’t work” and “Are Test Cases Dead (Yet)? – Ministry of Testing”.

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.

Find a problem you care about and focus on fixing that.Dr. StrangeCareer or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Software Testing Industry | Quality Remarks Enjoy this in the April 2016 issue of Testing Trapeze! “Find a problem you care about and focus on fixing that.” – Scott Berkun Software testing is a strange
Source: qualityremarks.com/dr-strangecareer-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-software-testing-industry/

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Powerful ADB commands for Android Tester

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If you are working as mobile tester in an Android development team you are probably familiar with adb commands (Android Debug Bridge). The tool offers plenty of useful commands that help you to pull logs from the Android device or emulator. Besides pulling log files from the test device there are plenty of other useful commands that every mobile tester in an Android environment must know. Before using adb make sure the Android SDK is installed, a device is connected to your computer or an Android emulator has been started. Note: In order to use the adb commands on your test devices make sure that on every device the developer options and USB debugging are enabled.

Both options are hidden by default. On Android 4.2 and higher you can enable them by tapping seven times the build number in the Settings > About phone section. Once the developer options are enabled open them and enable USB debugging.

ADB commands

Start/ Stop ADB server

If a device is connected start the adb server to be able to interact with the device.

adb start-server

adb kill-server

List connected devices

adb devices
Will list all connected devices.

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