2016 Will Be the Year for Wearables So Test Wisely

The following article “2016 Will Be the Year for Wearables So Test Wisely” is a guest blog post by Eran Kinsbruner who is the Mobile Evangelist at Perfecto, one of the leading mobile cloud and automation companies. This article is the introduction to my smartwatch app testing series which will start next week.

You don’t have to look far to see the digital transition in practice. Airlines, banks and retail giants are making their products available on various digital platforms to satisfy their customers, grow their business and compete in a challenging market. Wearable devices such as smartwatches and health and fitness trackers will continue making progress in 2016. According to an IDC report, basic wearables such as fitness trackers are growing by 76% year-over-year, while smart wearables like smartwatches are growing far faster.

Wearables - Adventures in QA

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EuroStar Conference – How to get on Board

EuroStar Conference Call For Paper

The EuroStar conference is one of the software testing conferences in Europe that every tester should try to attend. It is a great conference to meet great software testers from all over the world to exchange and share your own knowledge and to learn something new. Maybe you consider talking at EuroStar 2016 then you have a chance to submit a paper until 05.02.2016. This years conference topic is “Learning to Test, Testing to Learn”. If you consider to send a paper to the conference have a look at the following video where several software testing experts give tips why and how you should send your paper.

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Reading Recommendations # 47

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 And the last but not least posts for this edition have the topics “Outdated testing concepts #2”, January edition of the women testers magazine and “Can agile scale and does it matter?”.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?What Mobile Challenges Do Software Testers Face In 2016? – Ministry of Testing

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The Drawbacks of Being a Mobile Tester

The Drawbacks of being a Mobile Tester

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’.

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Mobile Tester – Android at XING

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.

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