My Interview on the uTest Blog

A couple of weeks ago the uTest blog started a new series called Authors in Testing. In this series several testing experts have been interviewed about certain testing topics and the book they wrote. There were interviews from Dorothy Graham Peter Kim Lisa Crispin And since today I am also part of this great series and it’s an … Read more

Hands-On Mobile App Testing

A guide for mobile testers and anyone involved in the mobile app business. This book contains lots of insights about the challenging job of a mobile tester from a practical and pragmatic perspective.  >>Start Mobile Testing now

Hands-On Mobile App Testing is available

It’s done! My book “Hands-On Mobile App Testing” is available since today. Further information can be found here: http://www.handsonmobileapptesting.com/.

Why I wrote this Book

It all started in 2010 when I had the opportunity to work on my first mobile project. The mobile team I worked in was responsible for developing a mobile web app, a native Android app and a native iOS app. This was the company’s first mobile project and a completely new testing environment for the quality assurance department. Together with a colleague, I had the chance to build up a mobile testing strategy from scratch. We evaluated several test automation tools to see which one fits best in our software development lifecycle. At that time, mobile testing tools were few and far between, and at an very early development stage. We then tried several testing approaches and tools. Of course we failed with some of them, but in the end the whole team, the company and our customers were happy.

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Common Apple App Store Rejections

Since a couple of days (at least I never saw that page before) Apple provided a page with the most common app store rejections. On the page several categroies are listed, providing information on how to prevent your app from being rejected. When testing and/or submitting an iOS app have the following points in mind. Crashes … Read more

uTest is starting “Tester of the Quarter”

uTest announced a new theme similar to the uTester of the year, it is called Tester of the Quarter. They introduced the program to recognize and to award software testers who participate to the global testing community. If you are a uTester and want to nominate a tester that fits to one of the following categories, submit your nominations here. … Read more