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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.

Android M Testing with Doze and App Standby

May 7, 2018October 7, 2015 by Daniel

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:

Reading Recommendations # 37

May 7, 2018October 7, 2015 by Daniel

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/

Reading Recommendations # 36

May 7, 2018October 1, 2015 by Daniel

The 36th issue of the reading recommendation contains again 8 posts. There are topics about Women in Testing, Testing Skills, learning and what kind of skills helps you to built quality in. Furthermore, there is another episode from Stephen Janaway’s podcast series Testing in the Pub with the topic of security testing. There is another interesting post about the topic How I stopped hating QA. And Katrina Clokie provided yet another awesome testing pathway this time about security testing. And last but not least there is a topic about mobile testing.

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.

	A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball: Women (like me) in Testing
Source: visible-quality.blogspot.de/2015/09/women-like-me-in-testing.html

Mobile App Europe Summary and Slides

May 7, 2018September 30, 2015 by Daniel

I am just back in Hamburg from the Mobile App Europe Conference and I am still excited about it. I had 2 great days in Potsdam meeting several mobile experts from all over the world to exchange on the latest mobile topics. I had the chance to talk to Dan Cuellar, the creator of Appium which was really great. I talked to people from booking.com, Groupon and other cool companies out there.

Another great thing was that I met Stephen Janaway and Richard Bradshaw again. We had some nice talks and at the end of the first day we were recording another episode of Testing in the Pub together with Denys Zelenchuck, Sergej Mudruk and André Gorzel.