A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Joe Colantonio the founder of www.testtalks.com a weekly podcast about test automation. During the interview we spoke about my book and about mobile testing challenges in general. We spoke about the mobile test pyramid, which mobile test automation tools should be used and what makes mobile testing so special compared to other software like web- or desktop applications.
Adventures in QA
State of Testing Report 2015
In January, I wrote a blog post to announce and to ask for your participation in the new “State http://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing/of Testing Report 2015“. Today, I received a mail from Lalit and Joel that the latest report is now ready and can be shared with all of you. Hopefully, you have participated in this survey and are curious about the results.
In the latest state of testing report 2015, software testers from around the world have participated. Here is a short overview of the countries:
40% Book Discount
This will be the shortest blog post ever. If you want to buy my book you can use this link until 6th of July to get 40% discount http://www.informit.com/promotions/save-40-in-the-informit-fourth-of-july-sale-140681&BYKnottMobileAppTesting or with the following voucher code: JULY4TH #HappyTesting
Reading Recommendations # 23
Times flies, it is already Wednesday and it seams the summer break is coming. The 23rd issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains only 6 blog posts. Nevertheless, the 6 post I mention this week are worth reading and are dealing wit the topics: The 5s Methodolgy of Testing, how to perform your own lean mobile usability testing and how to blog while testing, an experiment of a way to test. There is another post dealing with the hot topic of recruiting users for user testing and there are 2 posts dealing with the same topic on how to use sounds during testing. Richard and Maik where talking about this topic on the testers.io community and both decided to write a blog post about it :).
Enjoy reading the posts.
 | Testing the Waterhouse: The 5s Methodology to Testing |
| Source: www.testingthewaterhouse.com/2015/06/the-5s-methodology-to-testing.html | |
People in Testing Interview with Markus Gärtner
This time in “People in Testing” I had the chance to interview Markus Gärtner, the author of ATDD by Example – A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development and one of the most influential agile testing professional person (Awarded in 2013).
Daniel: Markus, what is currently your biggest challenge at work?
Markus: Right now, I am working with a client on introducing Scrum in both the medical world as well as constructing medical equipment, rather than software development. Although, I we just started, I feel engaged by the amount of things that I learn in order to make this happen.
On another note, I work in a company where we enjoy lots of freedom together with self-direction and self-management. Though the stuff you read about it-agile, if you dive into the background, and are part of it, it’s very hard work. Right now, we are on the edge of hopefully overcoming some of the struggles that come with self-organization.