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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 # 22

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It is Wednesday again and the 22nd issue of my software testing reading recommendations is available with 8 recommended blog posts. There are posts dealing with the topics: Introducing the Software Testing Cupcake a new anti-pattern which I highly recommend to read. There is a post with the topic “Lessons learned on avoiding testing” which is also very interesting. Furthermore, there are post about talking on conferences and what a blogger learnt from it. How to mock the current mobile device location with testmunk. How to improve quality and syntax of your Android code. A post about good and bad disruption, a post about a new theory of distraction and a last post which is dealing with white box testing vs. black box testing.

Enjoy reading the posts.

fabio-cupcake-new1_0Introducing the Software Testing Cupcake (Anti-Pattern) | ThoughtWorksI believe that the Testing Pyramid is one of the best analogies to help a team develop a strategy for writing tests in a reliable and scalable manner. I have used it many times, and have found its application to be immensely helpful.” name=”description

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Top 10 Best Practices for Mobile App Testing

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I recently wrote an article for InformIT to give some more insights into mobile app testing. The article I wrote is called “Top 10 Best Practices for Mobile App Testing“. The complete article can be found here, the following post contains only an excerpt of the article. Top 10 Best Practices for Mobile App Testing … Read more

User Interface Testing by Apple

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On this year’s WWDC 15 Apple presented a new way of user interface testing within Xcode 7. With the new version of Xcode Apple introduces user interface testing as a brand new feature of the existing XCText framework. The great thing about the new ui testing approach is that it is an extension to the existing APIs and concepts in XCTest. Developers who are familiar with XCode’s testing features will have no problems to adopt ui testing in their daily working life.

Apple introduced UI recording to Xcode where developers and testers are able to capture the current activities on the iOS simulator directly into the test method. Also interaction with the app will be recorded and added as test steps. The tool is using the accessibility labels in order to recognize the elements within the app. UI testing can be used with Swift and Objective-C, there is no need for JavaScript testing anymore. However, UI testing is only working with iOS9 devices.

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Win a Copy of Hands-On Mobile App Testing

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Since May my book is available in the printed edition in different online and offline stores and I got lots of great feedback from readers. Just this week a very cool package arrived with some free copies of my book that I can use to give away to other people. Some of the copies are … Read more