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Mobile Testing Cheat Sheet

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This is the first post in 2016 related to mobile testing and I think that new and interesting mobile testing challenges will come up this year for all of us. We all know that mobile apps are becoming more and more important for nearly every section of our lives and that the mobile market is still on the rise. More and more apps for smartphones, tablets and smartwatches are coming to the market to solve any kind of problem for the mobile user.
However, many mobile apps are still not well developed and tested and sometimes it is very hard to remember all those important areas during our testing activities. In order to change that, I created a mobile testing cheat sheet which you can use to print out and to stick it to your office walls to not forget important areas while developing and testing your mobile app. Maybe the mobile testing cheat sheet will help you and your colleagues in the daily app development business.
The mobile testing cheat sheet contains various areas that are really important in order to submit a high quality app to your customers.

Mobile Testing Cheat Sheet

The mind map contains 32 sections that you and your team should consider while the development and testing phase. There are areas such as:

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93 Most Popular Software Testing Blogs In 2015

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93 Most Popular Software Testing Blogs In 2015 - Adventures in QASince 2014 TestBuffet is creating a list of the most popular software testing blogs from the last year. TestBuffet defines itself like this:

“Our goal is to bring structure in this web of information. We gather software testing related blogs from around the world, assign them a category and rank those blogs by their popularity. This could be a good place for testers to start reading.”

And TestBuffet is a great place to find various software testings from around the world. In order to be considered in the ranking a blog has to meet specific entry criteria. The criteria are:

  • At least three blog posts between 1st of January to the next year January.
  • The blog is offering a feed and can be accessed without any errors.
  • The blog is about software testing.

Last year 114 blogs were ranked to be worth reading and my blog www.adventuresinqa.com was ranked on position 29, which was a huge success for me. For the best blogs in 2015, 353 software testing blogs participated in the ranking, but just 93 passed all the criteria and this list is now available here.

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Reading Recommendations # 44

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Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

Welcome back in 2016 to the first edition of my reading recommendations which has the number 44 in total. Since many people are still on vacation this edition of the reading recommendations contains 8 posts from 2015. However, that doesn’t mean that this blog posts are outdated yet :), no there are again lots of great posts that you should read. Maybe it is in your new year’s resolutions, to read more relevant posts in that case you found a good spot.

This edition contains post with the topics “The New Model and Testing v Checking”, “Five Myths About Automated Mobile UI Testing You Thought Were True”, “Mobile A/B Testing”, “10 Points Checklist for Testing Your Mobile Apps”, “3 Tips To Help Testers Ask Better Questions”, “Pivotal Labs Finds Success With Self-Managed Teams”, “Hiring for skills and team diversity” and “Testpappy’s International Testing Standard”.

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

Reading Recommendations

The New Model and Testing v CheckingThe New Model and Testing v Checking | Gerrard Consulting
Source: gerrardconsulting.com/?q=node/659

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State of Testing Survey 2016

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State of Testing Survey 2016 - Adventures in QA

Time flies and the State of Testing Survey 2016 is coming around the corner. I hope you guys participated in the previous state of testing survey to provide the software testing community with useful insights in our community. In the previous testing survey from 2015 more than 900 people from all over the world participated. In 2013, 600 participants completed the survey and the goal for the 2016 survey is to reach more than 1000 participants. If you like to contribute to this survey and to spread the word about it, you can either blog, tweet or talk about it on the social media platforms of your choice. While helping to spread the word about the survey, your blog will be listed as project collaborator and will show the community that you care about software testing and that you support the community. To get more information about it visit the survey page http://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing/ and send the survey team a message to ask for more information and to inform them, that you are participating in spreading the word.

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One thing not to forget when you are done testing

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The following article “One thing not to forget when you are done testing” is a guest post by Joel Montvelisky, Chief Solution Architect at PractiTest, a test management tool and blog owner of QA Intelligence where he writes about all things related to Testing; the good, the bad and the funny.

OK, so you and your team just completed a full testing project.

You created new tests for it, ran your cycles on multiple devices achieving the coverage you needed for release, you found a bunch of important bugs that were fixed (and some that were set for a later version), and throughout the whole process you provided valuable feedback to the product team on the features that you ended up releasing.

All in all you and your team did a pretty good job – Congratulations!

Now, as it usually happens you are also late to start your next project (or two?!) and you just want to get running with those tests…

But wait!!!

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