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People in Testing with Viktor Johansson

May 7, 2018October 26, 2015 by Daniel

Viktor Johansson - Adventures in QA This time in the “People in Testing” series, I had the chance to interview Viktor Johansson. Viktor is currently working in New York City for a tech startup called Axial. Viktor is very passionate about mobile testing and likes to build devices labs with lego. If you have any kind of question to Viktor, you can contact via twitter.

Daniel: What is currently your biggest challenge at work?

Viktor: To keep up with our several, weekly releases. As an embedded tester in an agile team, there is a lot to test. New features are constantly being built. I need, together with the team, prioritize my testing and try to identify risk areas quickly. I am a strong believer in dogfooding. Everybody in an organization can test and bring value to a product. I have received good support from different stakeholders across the organization. Building those relationships, bridging channels of communication has been invaluable. It has not only helped increase the quality of our product, but has also given me a greater understanding of the business in order to be a better tester. Communication with the end users has also been essential.

Reading Recommendations # 39

May 7, 2018October 21, 2015 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

Winter is coming at least here in Germany. The dark autumn and winter time is perfect for reading interesting articles. Therefore, the 39th issue of the reading recommendation contains six interesting posts that are worth reading. The first post is deailing with the topic “Avoid Common Testing Metric Pitfalls” and is very interesting to read. Another very interesting post is about “Women Who Test”. Then Katrina Clokie wrote another great post about “Changing the conversation about change in testing”. Other posts are dealing with the topics “Get Automated Testing “Done”” and “Speaking the language of business”. The last post is a teaser for a new testing book which might be of interest for you. The book is from Mike Talks and has the title “How to Test“.

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.

	Avoid Common Testing Metrics Pitfalls – Software Testing Blog Regardless of the size of its software development operation, every organization should be taking advantage of testing metrics.
Source: blog.utest.com/2015/10/19/avoid-common-testing-metrics-pitfalls/

Mobile Test Pyramid

May 7, 2018October 19, 2015 by Daniel

Anyone who is involved in software testing and software test automation should know the test automation pyramid introduced by Mike Cohn (http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/).

This article contains excerpts from my book „Hands-On Mobile App Testing“ published with Pearson Education.

As you can see in the following image, the typical pyramid consists of three layers. At the bottom, there is the automated unit-testing layer, in the middle the automated integration testing layer and at the top there is the automated end-to-end testing layer (including the user interface tests). Each layer has a different size, indicating the number of tests that should be written within each stage. Manual testing is not part of the test pyramid, hence it is shown as a cloud for additional testing work.

But this pyramid is not applicable to mobile apps and mobile test automation. Mobile testing requires a totally different set of testing activities like movement, sensors, different devices and networks compared to other software like desktop or web applications. Lots of manual testing is required to be sure that a mobile app is working as expected in the different usage scenarios.

Reading Recommendations # 38

May 7, 2018October 14, 2015 by Daniel

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

People in Testing with Katrina Clokie

May 7, 2018October 12, 2015 by Daniel

This 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.