Powerful ADB commands for Android Tester

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ADB commands - Adventures in QA

If you are working as mobile tester in an Android development team you are probably familiar with adb commands (Android Debug Bridge). The tool offers plenty of useful commands that help you to pull logs from the Android device or emulator. Besides pulling log files from the test device there are plenty of other useful commands that every mobile tester in an Android environment must know. Before using adb make sure the Android SDK is installed, a device is connected to your computer or an Android emulator has been started. Note: In order to use the adb commands on your test devices make sure that on every device the developer options and USB debugging are enabled.

Both options are hidden by default. On Android 4.2 and higher you can enable them by tapping seven times the build number in the Settings > About phone section. Once the developer options are enabled open them and enable USB debugging.

ADB commands

Start/ Stop ADB server

If a device is connected start the adb server to be able to interact with the device.

adb start-server

adb kill-server

List connected devices

adb devices
Will list all connected devices.

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Reading Recommendations # 58

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Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 58th edition of my reading recommendations. This time the edition contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There are topics like “When Product Management Goes Wrong – Part 2”, “Repetition in testing “, “How to Address Flaky Tests”, “Put down the pitchforks and pick up a keyboard”, “The 9 Coaching Roles” and “How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes”. This episode has a nice mixture of testing, product and coaching posts.

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 Product Management Goes Wrong – Part 2 – the DinosaurJonathan Kohl | When Product Management Goes Wrong – Part 2 – the Dinosaur
Source: www.kohl.ca/2016/when-product-management-goes-wrong-part-2-the-dinosaur/

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ADB Idea

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If you are working as mobile tester in an Android team or you are an Android developer you know the pain of installing apk files to your test devices and you should have a look at ADB idea, which may solve your pain. Next to installing or uninstalling apk files from test devices, it is somethings necessary to kill your app, start it or even to clear the app data in order to have a fresh version of it. Usually you are using the known adb commands for that and execute them in the console or you open the device settings to clear the app data. However, this is time consuming if you are doing this several times a day.

If you are using Android Studio or Intellij IDEA you can use a very nice plugin called ADB idea to speed up your testing and development time. ADB idea is written by Philippe Breault and can be installed via the IDE plugin section, e.g. Preferences/ Settings -> Plugins -> Browse Repositories or you can download it manually from the JetBrains plugin page and install it via Preferences/ Settings -> Plugins -> Install Plugin from disk.

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Reading Recommendations # 57

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Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 57th edition of my reading recommendations contains 8 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There are topics like “Software testing is not…”, “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Management”, “Why I still like pyramids”, “Discussing the Needs of Testing a Mobile App”, “When Product Management Goes Wrong – Part 1”, “Writing Tests Doesn’t Have to Be Extra Work”, “Testing activities BEFORE and AFTER release” and “Mobile Scale London Recap”.

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.

Software testing is notSoftware testing is not… – Mr.Slavchev()
Source: mrslavchev.com/2016/03/28/software-testing-not/

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State of Testing Report 2016

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State of Testing Report 2016 - Adventures in QA

It’s here, the results of the latest state of testing report from 2016. I just got the information from Joel and Lalit that the results are ready to share with the whole world and the testing community. I hope you participated in the survey to see how the whole software testing community is evolving and improving.

In 2015 more than 900 people (2013: 600 people participated), software testers, from all over the world participated in the survey and the insights where just great. If you want to see 2015 results read my blog post from last year. For the 2016 survey the goal was to reach even more software testers out there and the results is just awesome. More than 1,000 software testing professionals from more than 60 countries participated in the survey. Here is a short overview of the top 4 countries:

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