How to Build Your Own Android Device Cloud

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How to Build Your Own Android Device Cloud - Adventures in QA

In this post I will describe how to build your own Android device cloud in the office. You may think this is expensive and will take lots of time and work, but I promise it isn’t. After installing the device cloud you are able to control the real Android devices from your web browser no matter how far you are away from the real device. For all iOS testers and developers out there, I must say sorry, this post is only handling Android devices until know the tool I will use is not supporting iOS. Before I get started with the installation and setup I list shortly the hardware and software I used to setup the whole system.

Hardware and Software

Lets start with the software that is managing the Android devices. The software is called openstf, where STF stands for Smartphone Test Farm. The software is open source and is maintained by Simo Kinnunen and Günther Brunner. STF offers a plethora of really cool features like

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Reading Recommendations # 64

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The 64 issue of my reading recommendations is fully packed with 8 very interesting blog posts and a video about Selenium 3. Thanks to all the bloggers out there writing the great content. This issue include the topics: “Test engineering”, “Applying software design patterns to your test automation code”, “API Testing – Getting Started with SoapUI – Assert.This”, “The danger of the technocrat tester”, “Recreate Building Quality in with Distributed Teams”, “The importance of testability, or how to avoid the nastiest xpath selector known to mankind”, “Flaky Tests at Google and How We Mitigate Them” and “Let’s Test 2016”.

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.

When you have finished reading the recommended blog posts think about leaving a comment. The author of the blog will love to see your comment and it will start a nice discussion about the topic that may help others to understand the topic even more.

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Smartwatch Testing Cheat Sheet

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In one of my last posts I published my mobile testing cheat sheet. The reactions I received from social media and other channels was just great. The cheat sheet was very well received by you and I think it will help you to not forget the important parts when it comes to mobile app testing.

Maybe you have read my blog series about smartwatch app testing including the different watch platforms as well as several testing ideas that might help you to tackle this new technology stack. Wearables and especially smartwatches are becoming more and more important in our life and may be the next big challenge for you as well. Eran Kinsbruner wrote a great guest blog post about wearables in 2016 and if you miss that post I highly recommend you to read it here. The post will provide you with lots of useful insights in the wearable world.

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Get a 15% EuroStar Discount

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Until end of May 2016 you have the chance to get a 15% EuroStar discount for the conference which will take place in October/ November 2016 in Stockholm. If you are not sure if you should attend, take a look at the following video to get an impression and to make your decision. The discount … Read more

Reading Recommendations # 63

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The 63 issue of my reading recommendations includes 5 very interesting blog posts with various topics and one podcast. This time the are the following topics: “Testing When You Don’t Have Enough Testers”, “Why you should be Gray Box Tester”, “Changing culture through testing transformation”, “An Intro To Cynefin”, “Thoughts: Encouraging change when you are the only tester” and “Lessons Learned Navigating the Conflicting Schools of Software Testing”.

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.

When you have finished reading the recommended blog posts think about leaving a comment. The author of the blog will love to see your comment and it will start a nice discussion about the topic that may help others to understand the topic even more.

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Source: https://testingpodcast.com/testing-when-you-dont-have-enough-testers

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