Adventures in QA

Reading Recommendations # 91

May 7, 2018December 12, 2017 by Daniel

The 91 issue of my reading recommendations contains 7 very interesting blog posts and one YouTube video. The topics of this issue are “American Airlines ‘glitch’ allows all pilots to take vacation over Christmas week; cancellations possible”, “How We Reorganized Instagram’s Engineering Team While Quadrupling Its Size”, “On Why the “Testers Should Know How to Code” Mantra could Hurt Us All”, “Interviewing Programmers for Quality Mindset”, “Only Verify State-Changing Method Calls”, “How to overcome the challenges of testing in the cloud” and “When you try to stop testing…..you end up testing anyway”.

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.

	American Airlines ‘glitch’ allows all pilots to take vacation over Christmas week; cancellations possible
Source: http://fox6now.com/2017/11/29/american-airlines-glitch-allows-all-pilots-to-take-vacation-over-christmas-week-cancellations-possible/

Reading Recommendations # 90

May 7, 2018November 27, 2017 by Daniel

The 90 issue of my reading recommendations contains 6 very interesting blog posts with topics about “The missing link between testing and automation”, “What is Agile Testing?”, “RiskStorming – Mapping Risks with TestSphere”, “Community Boss So Far”, “Recruit People, Don’t Fulfil Roles” and “How I Learned to Build a Test Suite”.

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.

	The missing link between testing and automation – Mr.Slavchev The missing link between testing and automation – Mr.SlavchevI think there’s a missing link between testing and automation – we simply are after different goals. Read and find out where we fail to align.
Source: mrslavchev.com/2017/11/23/the-missing-link-between-testing-and-automation

[Reblog] iOS Calabash Launcher for MacOS

May 7, 2018November 13, 2017 by Daniel

This is a reblog, of my blogpost iOS Calabash Launcher for MacOS from tech.xing.com. I want to share the post with you, because it might be of interest.

#HappyTesting

Today, the XING mobile releases team want to give something back to the Open Source community. At XING, using Open Source software in our projects is natural. For our mobile apps (iOS and Android) we use Calabash to write end-to-end automated checks, to verify that the user flows are covered before going live. For those people who worked with Calabash for iOS and Android they know that it’s sometimes really hard to define screens, to detect the ID as well as the text behind an element. The default Calabash installation provides a console based element inspector, which makes it not easy to work with. Furthermore, the default installation from Calabash doesn’t offer any visual device detection, test execution, element inspection or setup possibilities.
But this will change today! We are proud to Open Source our Calabash Launcher.

Reading Recommendations # 89

May 7, 2018October 10, 2017 by Daniel

The 89 issue of my reading recommendations contains 7 very interesting blog posts with topics about “Barcamp experience – Sessions and outlook for 2018”, “Dev*Ops”, “9 Communication Habits That All Successful Leaders Have”, “Writing Automation is Easy”, “When Do You Stop Testing? “, “Conducting Security Testing for Web Applications” and “What sets exceptional QA testers apart?”.

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.

	Barcamp experience – Sessions and outlook for 2018 – A Testers Odyssee An QA barcamp experience report as an attendee, insight into some sessions. And will there be a barcamp 2018? (Spoiler: Yes, it will be)
Source: hanseatictester.info/barcamp-experience

Mobile Testing Checklist

May 7, 2018September 28, 2017 by Daniel

Every new feature that is implemented on a mobile app must be tested. Of course, software testers can write long test cases and test plans but we all know that the requirements of feature can and most likely will change during the development phase. Sometimes new requirements are showing up or requirements are not important or valid anymore. If a huge test plan have been written it needs to be adapted and this is time consuming. A couple of blog posts I published the mobile testing cheat sheet, to help you not to forget to test important aspects of mobile testing. In this blog post I want to share a quick mobile testing checklist which may help you to concentrate on 10 very important things to test. Besides that I recommend you to create mind-maps instead of long test cases to outline your tests against the requirements.