Adventures in QA

How to File Mobile Bugs

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mobile_bugIf you find a bug within a mobile app, you need to report it in order to get it fixed. Filing mobile bug reports requires some additional information that the developers need in order to reproduce and fix the bug.

But what is important when filing a mobile bug? What should a bug report look like?

Before I answer those two questions, I want to raise another one: “Why even send a bug report?”

Bug reports are very important for the product owner, product manager and the developers. Firstly, a bug report tells the developers and the product owner about issues they were not aware of. They also help to identify possible new features no one has thought of and, last but not least, they provide useful information about how a customer may use the software. All of this information can be used to improve your software.

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GTAC 2014 Day 2

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And here is the second day and video from the Google Test Automation Conference. At the second day there were again talks from Google, Facebook, American Express, Adobe or Comcast. This day was again just great, with great topics and great speakers. Check out the attached video and enjoy the various topics about test automation. Happy Testing!

GTAC 2014 Day 1

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On 10/28/2014, the first day of the 2014 Google Test Automation Conference took place in Kirkland. For those who can’t attend the conference, Google provided a live stream and has now published the talks in a youtube video.

The video includes very interesting talks from various companies such as Google, Mozilla, Adobe, HP, Dropbox, Netflix or Facebook. The complete schedule can be found here.

All talks from the first day are included in this video.

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[Video] Breaking the Matrix – Android Testing at Scale

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Today, I want to share a video with you. The topic of the video is “Breaking the Matrix – Android Testing at Scale” and shows a talk from Google employees explaining how to scale your Android test automation using emulators. Testing Android apps manually on emulators is not my first choice, however at some point it … Read more

Hands-On Mobile App Testing is available

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It’s done! My book “Hands-On Mobile App Testing” is available since today. Further information can be found here: http://www.handsonmobileapptesting.com/.

Why I wrote this Book

It all started in 2010 when I had the opportunity to work on my first mobile project. The mobile team I worked in was responsible for developing a mobile web app, a native Android app and a native iOS app. This was the company’s first mobile project and a completely new testing environment for the quality assurance department. Together with a colleague, I had the chance to build up a mobile testing strategy from scratch. We evaluated several test automation tools to see which one fits best in our software development lifecycle. At that time, mobile testing tools were few and far between, and at an very early development stage. We then tried several testing approaches and tools. Of course we failed with some of them, but in the end the whole team, the company and our customers were happy.

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