Reading Recommendations # 38

by
Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 38th issue of the reading recommendation contains five interesting posts. This issue is mainly about learning, test automation and how to select the right mobile test devices for your team. There are posts with the topic “Audio Testing”, “Remote Experiential Learning”, “5 Things Your Boss Doesn’t Understand about Test Automation”, “Automated Verifications are Special, and Why This is Important” and an article about “How To Decide Which Devices to Buy for Mobile Testing” from Karen Johnson.

Enjoy reading the posts and send me posts that are worth reading and I will mention you and link to your social links or blog.

Google Testing Blog: Audio Testing – Automatic Gain Control
Source: googletesting.blogspot.de/2015/10/audio-testing-automatic-gain-control.html

Read more

People in Testing with Katrina Clokie

by

Adventures in QA - Katrina ClokieThis time in the “People in Testing” series, I had the chance to interview Katrina Clokie. Katrina is a very passionate software testing expert in various testing fields. She is an active contributor to the software testing community and the editor of the Testing Trapeze magazine. If you have any kind of question to Katrina, you can contact her on twitter.

 

Daniel: What is currently your biggest challenge at work?
Katrina: Since April I’ve been working in a test coaching role. My biggest challenge has been establishing good individual relationships with all the testers I work with. I spend a lot of time thinking about the number of interactions we have and what they are, as I know their primary responsibility is to their delivery teams and in some ways my work is a distraction from that. I am aiming to be approachable and helpful, without being overbearing and annoying. I hope I’m finding the right balance.

Read more

Android M Testing with Doze and App Standby

by
Adventures in QA - Android M Testing with Doze and App Standby

You probably all know that Google has started with the rollout of Android M (Marshmallow). Android app developers and testers must know the new features that are coming with the latest version of Android M. Next to the brand new permission system, Android M also introduces Doze and App standby to save battery.

If a user leaves a device unplugged and stationary for a period of time, with the screen off, the device enters Doze mode. In Doze mode, the system attempts to conserve battery by restricting apps’ access to network and CPU-intensive services. It also prevents apps from accessing the network and defers their jobs, syncs, and standard alarms.
Periodically, the system exits Doze for a brief time to let apps complete their deferred activities. During this maintenance window, the system runs all pending syncs, jobs, and alarms, and lets apps access the network. (Source: Google documentation)

In order to be sure that your app is able to handle Doze and app Standby, Google provided some documentation on that. Here are the steps to make sure your app handles Doze (instructions copied from the documentation):

Testing your app with Doze

You can test Doze mode by following these steps:

Read more

Reading Recommendations # 37

by
Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 37th issue of the reading recommendation contains 6 posts. There is a great blog post from Rob Lambert about “Follow the work – bad news for Test Managers?”. Another posts are dealing with the topics “Test Early, to not fail often”, “Bugs are so yesterday”, “Measuring success in Testing”, “How do you surprise your team members during their next review?” and “The Tester Type Box – Why We Need To Break Out of It”.

Enjoy reading the posts and send me posts that are worth reading and I will mention you and link to your social links or blog.

Follow the work – bad news for Test Managers? – Rob Lambert Bad news for test managers
Source: thesocialtester.co.uk/follow-the-work-bad-news-for-test-managers/

Read more

Testing in the Pub – Live from Mobile App Europe

by

Last week I attended the Mobile App Europe conference in Potsdam, where I met several mobile experts from all over the world. I already blogged about this in one of my last posts. In the evening of the first conference day, Stephen Janaway, Richard Bradshaw, Sergej Mudruk, Denys Zelenchuck, André Gorzel and I recorded another episode … Read more