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Android vs. iPhone. The State of Mobile App Quality

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uTest published a really nice Infographic about the State of Mobile App Quality comparing Android and iPhone. The graphic compares the user happiness and the complaints. In total 77,136 Android Apps and 62,093 iPhone Apps are considered for this infographic. Take a look at it, it really interesting!  

Invited as Speaker to Scandinavian Agile Conference 2012 in Helsinki

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Great news! During my vacation I received an invitation as a speaker to the Scandinavian Agile Conference 2012 in Helsinki. My talk will be about mobile testing in general. Stay tuned, I will update this post, if I have more information about my talk and the conference. Please visit the conference page: http://scan-agile.org/ http://scan-agile.org/program/  Here is … Read more

iPhone test automation using KIF (Keep It Functional)

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In my last posts I dealed a lot with Android and how to implement automated regression tests using tools like Robotium. This post describes how to implement automated tests using the tool KIF (Keep It Functional, http://corner.squareup.com/2011/07/ios-integration-testing.html). KIF is an open source test framework developed by the company square (https://squareup.com). It is an iOS integration test framework that allows you to implement test cases with objective C that can be executed currently only against the iPhone/ iPad simulator. The KIF tests are integrated to your workspace, there is no need for additional servers or services that must be started.

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iOS App Store Submission Checklist

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Have you ever wondered how Apple checks your submitted app? I asked me several times, “What are they doing during their submission phase?” and today I found a checklist of things Apple is doing.

BUT, no warranty that this checklist is officially from Apple. Here some points from the list. The rest can be found in the provided source.

Checklist:

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Agile Testing Days 2011

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Last week from November 14th to November 17th I was attending at the Agile Testing Days 2011 in Potsdam! If you are working in an agile software development team in different roles e.g. tester, developer, agile coach or product owner, I really recommend to go to the next Agile Testing Days 2012 to meet great people and to exchange on certain test topics.

My conference started on Monday with a tutorial from Michael Bolton with the topic: “Critical Thinking Skills for Testers”. To make it short: This tutorial was AWESOME!

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