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Reading Recommendations # 47

May 7, 2018January 27, 2016 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 47th edition of the reading recommendations contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. Rosie Sherry posted an article on Ministry Of Testing with the topic “What Mobile Challenges Do Software Testers Face in 2016?”. The post contains challenges and solutions from various mobile experts. Another post is dealing with the topic of automate Amazon. The third post has the topic “Become Certified Book Reading Tester” which is intereseting to read. And the last but not least posts for this edition have the topics “Outdated testing concepts #2”, January edition of the women testers magazine and “Can agile scale and does it matter?”.

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.

	What Mobile Challenges Do Software Testers Face In 2016? – Ministry of Testing
Source: www.ministryoftesting.com/2016/01/what-mobile-challenges-do-software-testers-face-in-2016/

The Drawbacks of Being a Mobile Tester

May 7, 2018January 25, 2016 by Daniel

This post is not about mobile fragmentation (f-word) or any other technical challenges that we as mobile tester have to handle in our daily work life. No, this post is about health, our health while we are working all day long with mobile devices and this post should show you the drawbacks of that.

While testing mobile apps our neck and our eyes are under extreme burden. While looking down to the devices our neck is forced into an unnormal position which puts high pressure to our neckbones and may lead to a headache, neck pain or even more back problems.
There is even a term for that problem, it’s called ‘text neck’.

Mobile Tester – Android at XING

May 7, 2018January 21, 2016 by Daniel

We, the XING Android Team are looking for a mobile tester (male/ female) with a strong focus on Android. We are a cross-functional agile team including developers, testers, designers, interaction designers, product owners and some other stakeholders. Every two weeks we are releasing a new Android app version to our customers starting with a beta rollout to check if everything is running OK. Before we go into beta and start the stage rollout of the XING Android app we do lots of stuff in order to make sure that the app is working as expected and to deliver high quality to our customers.

Reading Recommendations # 46

May 7, 2018January 20, 2016 by Daniel

The 46th edition of the reading recommendations contains 7 great blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There is one post from James Bach where he is asking question the question “What is Integration Testing?”. The next post is about outdated testing concepts. Tanmay Vora visualized in his post “Leaders Need Three Kinds of Focus” what focus types are important for leaders. Then there is a nice summary post about weekend testing with the topic “Mobile Website Testing”. On the Spotify blog there is a nice post about “Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve”. Then there is a post with the topic “Am I really a valuable member of my team?”. The last post for this week is from Kim Knup with the topic “Thoughts: Should I stay or should I go now?”.

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.

	Re-Inventing Testing: What is Integration Testing? (Part 1) \| James Bach’s Blog
Source: www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/1570

What Mobile Challenges Do Software Testers Face In 2016?

May 7, 2018January 18, 2016 by Daniel

Lately I have been asked by Rosie Sherry the women behind Ministry of Testing, what are the main mobile challenges software testers need to face in 2016. Rosie asked me for only one testing challenge that we have to handle. In the first place the mobile device fragmentation came to my mind, but Rosie mentioned right from start, that this topic is already in the list. The next topic that came to my mind pretty quick is “In the Wild Testing”. And that is what I have written.

Problem:

One of the biggest challenges software testers need to handle in 2016 is manual “In the wild testing”. The problem that I see, is that many software testers, test mobile applications in the same way as they would test web or desktop applications, always on the same place with the same Internet connection. But mobile apps are not the same like web or desktop applications. They are used in a total different environment with different Internet connections. If a mobile app is tested only with a fast and stable Internet connection lots of problems will not be covered during the testing and development phase.