Adventures in QA

ADB Idea

May 7, 2018April 11, 2016 by Daniel

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.

Reading Recommendations # 57

May 7, 2018April 6, 2016 by Daniel

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

State of Testing Report 2016

May 7, 2018April 4, 2016 by Daniel

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:

Reading Recommendations # 56

May 7, 2018March 31, 2016 by Daniel

I hope you had some nice easter vacation days and enjoyed the free time with your family and friends. Right after easter there is the 56th edition of my reading recommendations. This time the edition contains 5 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There are topics like “Use your stand up to make testing visible”, “How to Use EarlGrey Framework for iOS Functional UI Testing”, “How do you create a friendly conference?”, “Top 5 traps of test automation” and “Learning pathways for testers”.

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.

	Katrina the Tester: Use your stand up to make testing visible
Source: katrinatester.blogspot.de/2016/03/use-your-stand-up-to-make-testing.html

Accessibility Scanner

May 7, 2018March 29, 2016 by Daniel

Google just released a new Android app that helps you to identify accessibility problems in your Android app. The app is called Accessibility Scanner and can be downloaded from Google Play. Once the app is installed on your test device, it will guide you through the setup process, to activate the scanner in the accessibility settings of the phone.

When the setting is active you will see the blue accessibility scanner app button on your home screen of the device (floating button).