Open Device Labs

Open Device Labs - Adventures in QA

I often see posts on twitter or software testing communities where people asking for help regarding mobile device fragmentation and how to handle all those different devices. Usually my answer to this is, that you don’t need to test on that many mobile devices.

There are several ways to go. One way to go, is to gather user information from tracking statistics of the released app version. If the app is not yet released, statistics from the Web page (if in place) can help to gather information about the target customers and the devices they are using. If this kind of information is available you can start thinking about how to get at least the top 10 – 15 devices of the customers.

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[Infographic] QA Mistakes and how they were solved

Udemy Infographic - Adventures in QA-header

The company Udemy, send me the following very interesting infographic about major QA fails and solutions from the last 25 years. It is pretty interesting to see what kind of bugs occur and how they were solved. The infographic contains bugs from companies such as AT&T, Pentium, US Navy, NASA, Airbus, Lookheed and many more. … Read more

Interview on TestTalks.com

Test Talks Logo - Adventures in QAA couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Joe Colantonio the founder of www.testtalks.com a weekly podcast about test automation. During the interview we spoke about my book and about mobile testing challenges in general. We spoke about the mobile test pyramid, which mobile test automation tools should be used and what makes mobile testing so special compared to other software like web- or desktop applications.

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State of Testing Report 2015

In January, I wrote a blog post to announce and to ask for your participation in the new “State http://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing/of Testing Report 2015“. Today, I received a mail from Lalit and Joel that the latest report is now ready and can be shared with all of you. Hopefully, you have participated in this survey and are curious about the results.

In the latest state of testing report 2015, software testers from around the world have participated. Here is a short overview of the countries:

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40% Book Discount

This will be the shortest blog post ever. If you want to buy my book you can use this link until 6th of July to get 40% discount http://www.informit.com/promotions/save-40-in-the-informit-fourth-of-july-sale-140681&BYKnottMobileAppTesting or with the following voucher code: JULY4TH #HappyTesting