Adventures in QA

Smartwatch App Testing – watchOS

May 7, 2018February 22, 2016 by Daniel

This is the second post of my smartwatch app testing series. In this post I will write about Apple’s watchOS. Apple introduced watchOS together with the first Apple Watch in April 2015. WatchOS is already available in the second version watchOS 2. If you are new to this smartwatch app testing series, in the first post I wrote about Tizen OS and the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch.

Together with the watchOS release, Apple also released the watchKit for developers, an SDK to develop apps for the smartwatch. Apple Watch apps can either be written in Objective-C or Swift, the new open source programming language from Apple. If you want to get started with watchOS, I recommend you to read the following links:

If you want to setup watchOS on your system, you can download the latest version from here. To get an overview about the architecture and the application life cycle of watchKit apps read this link.

Reading Recommendations # 50

May 7, 2018February 17, 2016 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

Amazing, this is already the 50th edition of the reading recommendations. I hope you liked them so far. This week there are 7 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. This time there are articles from Markus Gärtner, Lisa Crispin and Richard Bradshaw just to name some of the great bloggers in this series.

There are posts about “Testing Beyond the UI”, “It’s not all about the devices”, “Few Best Practices Around Mobile Testing Agility”, “What Flaky Tests Can Tell You”, “Testing inside one sprint’s time”, “Helping a large team focus!” and “Why Was This Check Created?”.

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.

	Adventures in Automation: Testing Beyond the UI: The Testing Pyramid
Source: www.tjmaher.com/2016/02/testing-beyond-ui-testing-pyramid.html

Smartwatch App Testing – Tizen OS

May 7, 2018February 15, 2016 by Daniel

In the first blog post of the smartwatch app testing series I will write about Tizen OS. Tizen is an open source operating system built from scratch, developed and supported by a community of developers under open source governance. The main purpose of this new operating system is to address the needs of all different kind of stakeholders of the mobile and connected device world. This includes mobile device manufacturers, mobile operators or application developers. Tizen OS can be used for different use cases and scenarios, so called Tizen profiles. There are profiles for Tizen Mobile, Tizen TV, Tizen IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) and Tizen Wearable. For my series I will focus on the Tizen Wearable profile and will provide you with useful information to get to know this section of the Tizen operating system.

Tizen OS is a pretty new operating system and there are not as many manufacturers out there using Tizen Wearable on their smartwatches as Android Wear for example. Therefore, I will focus in this post on the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch. If you want to get started with Tizen OS, I recommend you to read about the operating system on tizen.org. If you want to install and use the development SDK download it from here. In the getting started section you get all the details about the SDK. If you want to get more information about the architecture of Tizen, read more about here.

Reading Recommendations # 49

May 7, 2018February 10, 2016 by Daniel

The 49th edition of the reading recommendations contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. The first post is a really nice one, it is about a man who’s surname is Null which lead to funny problems. The second post is from Katrina Clokie about Introverts in Agile which I really like and you should read it, too. Then there is the white paper from James Bach & Michael Bolton about a context driven approach to test automation which I recommend everybody to read and to share with non-testers, too.

The other posts are dealing with the topics “What Do Software Testers do?”, “How to get started with conference speaking” and “The Ultimate List of 100 Software Testing Quotes”.

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.

	Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers \| WIRED My last name is “Null,” and it comes preloaded with entertainment value.My last name is “Null,” and it comes preloaded with entertainment value.
Source: www.wired.com/2015/11/null

Smartwatch App Testing

May 7, 2018February 8, 2016 by Daniel

Smartwatches are available since a couple of years and they are becoming more and more important in the wearable industry. In 2015, more than 24 million smartwatches were sold worldwide and this number will likely increase in the next upcoming years. The first editions of the different smartwatches weren’t that mature and offered not that many apps and functionality. However, this might change in the near future and smartwatches can become the next big thing and will extend smartphones and tablets with useful functions. It may happen that you or your company decides to write an extension for your existing Android, iOS app also for the different smartwatch operating systems.

This extension to the mobile apps add more complexity to your environment from a development and testing perspective. In order to handle the new complexity and the challenges this series will help you to understand the different smartwatch platforms and provides you with useful testing ideas to handle this situation.

In the upcoming series I will focus on the following smartwatch platforms: