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Reading Recommendations # 54

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The 54th edition of my reading recommendations contains 7 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There is a post with the topic “Mapping lean princples to testin”, “What are the types of penetration testing”, “Predatory Testing”, “Announcing “Dear Evil Tester” coming soon, and why I wrote it”, “How to apply the 80:20 rule to Performance Testing”, “A checklist for making better decisions” and the last post is about “Get 5% better”.

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.

Awesome Testing: Mapping lean principles to testingAwesome Testing: Mapping lean principles to testing
Source: awesome-testing.blogspot.de/2016/03/mapping-lean-principles-to-testing.html

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Smartwatch App Testing Ideas

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Smartwatch App Testing - Adventures in QA

In the previous posts you have read and hopefully learned something new about Tizen OS, watch OS, Pebble OS, Android Wear and what is important to know when start testing on one (or more) of those mobile platforms. Smartwatches may not be on everyone’s wrists yet, but that time can change very quickly in the next upcoming months and you must be prepared for the new way of interacting with your apps and devices. As you have seen in this series, smartwatches offer a complete new set of interactions, features and challenges for mobile testers and developers. The guys from gizmag did a great job in comparing the different smartwatch platforms from a software and hardware point of view and is a nice summary to the watches I used for this series.

However, the last post in the series is about smartwatch app testing ideas. Before I go into the smartwatch app testing ideas I want to briefly remind you about the 4 key areas of smartwatch app testing.

4 Key Areas of Smartwatch App Testing

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My Testbash Experience

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Testbash

I am just back home in Hamburg from one of the greatest testing conferences in the world which was taking place this week in Brighton /England and I am talking about Testbash. Last year I already had the chance to attend the conference and to provide a workshop about mobile testing. This year I was in the luxury situation of just listening to all the great speakers which were talking about testing. If you don’t know testbash or have never attend the conference you should really try to get there once. Testbash is not like any other software testing conferences out there. Testbash is all about the people and the testing community. There are no big sponsor booths, trying to sell you any kind of products you may not need, no the breaks are for you to meet and to talk to other software testers. The coffee breaks are used to make new contacts, to share experiences and to make new friends. However, there are not just the breaks to talk to people, there are so many pre testbash meetups at pubs, restaurants or in any other places where you can meet the conference people.

Testbash

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Reading Recommendations # 53

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The 53rd edition of my reading recommendations contains 7 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. This time there are post with the topics “Real Life Leadership”, “8 Tips for Successful Independent Consulting”, “Rhythm of Testing”, “What makes them Leaders I want to work with”, “Finding the best bug reporting tool”, “Is your testing well spread” and “Android Smartphone Test Farm”.

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.

Real Life LeadershipReal Life Leadership – 6 Ideas That Really Work – Leadership Speaker David Dye
Source: trailblazeinc.com/real-life-leadership/

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Smartwatch App Testing – Android Wear

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Android Wear Watch Lineup - Adventures in QA

This is the 4th and last post of my smartwatch app testing series. However, there will be one more post with lots of testing ideas coming next week, so stay tuned for that. In this post I will write about Android Wear and the important features to know about this platform. Android Wear, as the name already suggest is based on Android and is developed by Google. The platform was launched at the Google I/O 2014.

Android Wear is written in C, C++ and Java and is open source like Android. The latest version based on Android 5.1.1 aka Lollipop (Version 6.0.1 aka Marshmallow is currently in roll-out stage). Since Android Wear is open source many manufacturers already produced their own Wear based watches. Some of you might think, yet another fragmentation challenge is coming up, but this is not the case for Android Wear. Google build this platform in a way that the UI is not customizable like Android for smartphones. The main goal is to get a common look and feel as well as features on different watches, produced by various manufacturers. This is a great step for all people working with wearable apps based on Android Wear, because it downsizes the amount of work.

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