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Reading Recommendations # 50

May 7, 2018February 17, 2016 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

Amazing, this is already the 50th edition of the reading recommendations. I hope you liked them so far. This week there are 7 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. This time there are articles from Markus Gärtner, Lisa Crispin and Richard Bradshaw just to name some of the great bloggers in this series.

There are posts about “Testing Beyond the UI”, “It’s not all about the devices”, “Few Best Practices Around Mobile Testing Agility”, “What Flaky Tests Can Tell You”, “Testing inside one sprint’s time”, “Helping a large team focus!” and “Why Was This Check Created?”.

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.

	Adventures in Automation: Testing Beyond the UI: The Testing Pyramid
Source: www.tjmaher.com/2016/02/testing-beyond-ui-testing-pyramid.html

Smartwatch App Testing – Tizen OS

May 7, 2018February 15, 2016 by Daniel

In the first blog post of the smartwatch app testing series I will write about Tizen OS. Tizen is an open source operating system built from scratch, developed and supported by a community of developers under open source governance. The main purpose of this new operating system is to address the needs of all different kind of stakeholders of the mobile and connected device world. This includes mobile device manufacturers, mobile operators or application developers. Tizen OS can be used for different use cases and scenarios, so called Tizen profiles. There are profiles for Tizen Mobile, Tizen TV, Tizen IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) and Tizen Wearable. For my series I will focus on the Tizen Wearable profile and will provide you with useful information to get to know this section of the Tizen operating system.

Tizen OS is a pretty new operating system and there are not as many manufacturers out there using Tizen Wearable on their smartwatches as Android Wear for example. Therefore, I will focus in this post on the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch. If you want to get started with Tizen OS, I recommend you to read about the operating system on tizen.org. If you want to install and use the development SDK download it from here. In the getting started section you get all the details about the SDK. If you want to get more information about the architecture of Tizen, read more about here.

Reading Recommendations # 49

May 7, 2018February 10, 2016 by Daniel

The 49th edition of the reading recommendations contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. The first post is a really nice one, it is about a man who’s surname is Null which lead to funny problems. The second post is from Katrina Clokie about Introverts in Agile which I really like and you should read it, too. Then there is the white paper from James Bach & Michael Bolton about a context driven approach to test automation which I recommend everybody to read and to share with non-testers, too.

The other posts are dealing with the topics “What Do Software Testers do?”, “How to get started with conference speaking” and “The Ultimate List of 100 Software Testing Quotes”.

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.

	Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers \| WIRED My last name is “Null,” and it comes preloaded with entertainment value.My last name is “Null,” and it comes preloaded with entertainment value.
Source: www.wired.com/2015/11/null

Smartwatch App Testing

May 7, 2018February 8, 2016 by Daniel

Smartwatches are available since a couple of years and they are becoming more and more important in the wearable industry. In 2015, more than 24 million smartwatches were sold worldwide and this number will likely increase in the next upcoming years. The first editions of the different smartwatches weren’t that mature and offered not that many apps and functionality. However, this might change in the near future and smartwatches can become the next big thing and will extend smartphones and tablets with useful functions. It may happen that you or your company decides to write an extension for your existing Android, iOS app also for the different smartwatch operating systems.

This extension to the mobile apps add more complexity to your environment from a development and testing perspective. In order to handle the new complexity and the challenges this series will help you to understand the different smartwatch platforms and provides you with useful testing ideas to handle this situation.

In the upcoming series I will focus on the following smartwatch platforms:

Reading Recommendations # 48

May 7, 2018February 3, 2016 by Daniel

The 48th edition of the reading recommendations contains 8 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. The first post was published on Ministry of Testing and is about “10 Great Questions from tester to Architect”. Another post is about Teaching = Learning which was very interesting to read. Then there is the second part of James Bach interview about integration testing. Another very interesting post is about “What on earth can just 2 days of testing do for a project?”. Then there is a post about automated tests with A/B testing. The last 2 posts are about mobile testing and have the topics “Mobile testing in an IoT world” and “Five myths about automated mobile UI 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.

	10 Great Questions from Tester to Architect – Ministry of Testing
Source: www.ministryoftesting.com/2016/01/10-great-questions-from-tester-to-architect/