BrokeYourApp

Thanks to my former colleague @the_qa_guy, I now know the website http://brokeyourapp.com/. The website is presenting nasty bugs in iOS mobile apps.
BrokeYourAppThe team behind the page is checking and testing random apps from the iOS store and is trying to break them. If they broke the app, they write a bug report with detailed steps, screenshots and videos. The whole report will be send to the developer. The bugs are categorized into

  • Crash
  • Freeze
  • UI Glitch
  • Dead End
  • Vanish

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Mobile Page Objects with Robotium-Sandwich

In several blog posts I wrote about the Android test automation framework Robotium. Those articles described the setup of the tool and how to split the whole test suite into smaller parts. Splitting the test suite into smaller parts is sometimes neccessary because building huge test suites can be a real challenge. If you don’t think about the architecture and about an abstraction layer of your test suite, the code will be impossible to mantain, impossible to scale and at the end, you will end up in a nightmare.

The guys from appThwack developed a library called ‘Robotium-Sandwich’ which is built on top of the Android instrumentation and the Robotium framework to solve the problem of unmaintainable test suites. The idea behind Robotium-Sandwich is similar to the page objects from Selenium 2.

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Testing Experience (DE) – Testautomatisierung

The new issue of the german Testing Experience is available. This time the magazine topic is test automation.


Find some really interesting articles about:

  • Testautomatisierung auf dem Vormarsch
  • Testen als Karriere
  • Entwickler entdecken UI-Testing
  • Am Anfang stand das Wort
  • Given When Test

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Bugs in real life

I found the following URL on a blog post from Testing FTW. When I first saw the pictures, I had that special feeling. The same feeling when finding bugs in software applications. The feeling that something isn’t right. Check out the images and go find the bugs! http://dunzo.net/30-infuriating-images-that-will-trigger-your-ocd Image-Source More real life bugs: http://www.ranker.com/list/62-images-that-will-trigger-your-ocd/brian-gilmore Have fun!