We, the XING Android Team are looking for a mobile tester (male/ female) with a strong focus on Android. We are a cross-functional agile team including developers, testers, designers, interaction designers, product owners and some other stakeholders. Every two weeks we are releasing a new Android app version to our customers starting with a beta rollout to check if everything is running OK. Before we go into beta and start the stage rollout of the XING Android app we do lots of stuff in order to make sure that the app is working as expected and to deliver high quality to our customers.
Reading Recommendations # 46
The 46th edition of the reading recommendations contains 7 great blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There is one post from James Bach where he is asking question the question “What is Integration Testing?”. The next post is about outdated testing concepts. Tanmay Vora visualized in his post “Leaders Need Three Kinds of Focus” what focus types are important for leaders. Then there is a nice summary post about weekend testing with the topic “Mobile Website Testing”. On the Spotify blog there is a nice post about “Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve”. Then there is a post with the topic “Am I really a valuable member of my team?”. The last post for this week is from Kim Knup with the topic “Thoughts: Should I stay or should I go now?”.
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.
 | Re-Inventing Testing: What is Integration Testing? (Part 1) | James Bach’s Blog |
| Source: www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/1570 | |
What Mobile Challenges Do Software Testers Face In 2016?
Lately I have been asked by Rosie Sherry the women behind Ministry of Testing, what are the main mobile challenges software testers need to face in 2016. Rosie asked me for only one testing challenge that we have to handle. In the first place the mobile device fragmentation came to my mind, but Rosie mentioned right from start, that this topic is already in the list. The next topic that came to my mind pretty quick is “In the Wild Testing”. And that is what I have written.
Problem:
One of the biggest challenges software testers need to handle in 2016 is manual “In the wild testing”. The problem that I see, is that many software testers, test mobile applications in the same way as they would test web or desktop applications, always on the same place with the same Internet connection. But mobile apps are not the same like web or desktop applications. They are used in a total different environment with different Internet connections. If a mobile app is tested only with a fast and stable Internet connection lots of problems will not be covered during the testing and development phase.
People in Testing Interview with Dan Billing
This time in the “People in Testing” series, I had the chance to interview Dan Billing also known as “TheTestDoctor” on twitter. Dan has been a tester for 15 years, working within a diverse range of development organisations, mostly in the south west of England. He currently works as a test engineer at New Voice Media, where most of his time is spent working on the security testing needs of the business. This includes mentoring, supporting and training members of the team to use these skills also.
Daniel: What is currently your biggest challenge at work?
Dan Billing: Learning and developing skills and strategies in application security are my main challenges in testing. Without talking about technical or business specifics, the issues include ensuring that test design, strategies and processes are created that are appropriate to the organisation and our compliance obligations.
Part of my role is also to enable members of the team to do security testing. I will consult with the other feature teams. I’ll enable mentoring and learning where needed. I often set up internal workshops, one to one sessions, test collaboration, documentation and blog posts on security testing matters. It helps develop skills around the team, so that one person isn’t a blocker to getting things done, and can get started in their personal learning.
Skills development is a huge problem for organisations that are trying to build up their test strategies to include security, usually where it wasn’t considered in the past. Quite often security testing is considered an afterthought in development organisations, or it is outsourced to specialist third party consultancies.
Penetration testing and security experts are generally extremely expensive to recruit into teams, either because of rates of pay, or because the people you want to hire just aren’t easy to find and recurity.
Also recently we have seen a number of high profile hacks that have brought the most basic security vulnerabilities into sharp focus. Both the Talk Talk and the VTech hacks were done using SQL Injection, which is common, easy to identify and exploit. If it is easy for the hackers to find these vulnerabilities, why not testers too?
Reading Recommendations # 45
The 45th edition of the reading recommendations contains 6 blog posts with different topics and one podcast. This edition contains an interesting series on buying your next testing devices. The series was published on uTest by Patryk Raba. Furthermore, this edition contains the following topics: “Testing Challenge Project Balto”, “Talking about Testing”, “Why testers are not taken seriously” and “An approach to refactoring test automation”. The podcast is from the testing podcast “Testing in the Pub” and has the topic “Leaving Testing”.
I highly recommend to listen to the podcast, there are some very interesting insights in it.
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.
 | Buying your next testing device |
| Source: https://www.utest.com/articles/buying-your-next-testing-device | |