The Testing Map

Last week I found a nice interactive testing mind map called: http://thetestingmap.org/. The mind includes testing topics like: Methodology Usage of Methodology Process Tools Support Activities Principles Soft Skills Social Technology Currently the mind map is in progress. As you can see on the map, there are lots of ‘in progress’ and ‘help wanted’ signs. I really … Read more

Mobile App Europe Program is Online

Today, the program of the Mobile App Europe Conference was published. The conference will take place from 29th September till 1st October. Have a look at the program, it is really awesome. There are so many interesting talks about mobile development, testing, design and marketing. Besides the talks, there are some really interesting keynotes with … Read more

I SLICED UP FUN by Jonathan Kohl

While attending the first CMAP (Certified Mobile App Professional) course in germany, I stumbled up on “I SLICED UP FUN” by Jonathan Kohl. Jonathan created a mnemonic for mobile app testing and named it “I SLICED UP FUN”. This mnemonic should help you to generate test ideas especially for mobile apps.

Here is a short look at the mnemonic.

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Quality Tools for Android

This week I found the nice github page from Stephane Nicolas named Quality Tools for Android. He provided a sample Android app using several test frameworks, to see how to use them.

bugdroid-duke-armor

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Do it yourself – Build your own mobile cam holder

In the last couple of months my colleagues and I struggled with mobile presentations. We had always two situations/ problems. Either we showed our apps during the sprint review meeting just to the client on the real device and all others could not see what we were presenting. Or we were fighting with HDMI/ VGA cables to connect the device to the projector, but we never get the perfect setup up and runing, so that everyone in the meeting was happy. So we thought about a mobile cam holder for the presentations, where the app is presented on the real device. The installed web cam should be connected to a laptop and the interactions from the device are visible on the projector.

The whole team agreed, that we need such a cam holder. We checked the internet for cam holders to buy, but the solutions we found are really expensive and not what we wanted. So the next logical step was to build our own cam holder.

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