mobile devices

My Year 2014

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Today, I want to say thank you. Thank you to all of you, who are reading my blog and my posts, who comment on them and who share them in different social networks! The year 2014 was a great year for me. Personally it was awesome, I had great time with my family and my … Read more

The World by Screen Size – Mobile Overview Report

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Last week I stumbled upon the following tweet by @lukew. The World by screen size…http://t.co/oypSt8EhzG pic.twitter.com/icTzfYLDK2 — Luke Wroblewski (@LukeW) November 19, 2014 Where Luke shared a mobile overview report from the company scientiamobile. The report contains some very interesting numbers and information. For example it contains: Different screen sizes used in Asia, North America and … Read more

ilos Mobile Screen Recorder to Record Mobile Bugs

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ilos_logo1A couple of posts ago, I blogged about “How to File Mobile Bugs“. One part of this post was a screen recorder video that can be attached to a bug report in order to provide more useful feedback to the developers.  If you search the app stores for screen recorder apps you will find lots of them offering recording features. However, nearly all apps require a rooted device in order to use the screen recording function but using a rooted device for mobile testing is not recommended.

With Android 5 (Lollipop) the situation has changed. Android 5 is offering an API for the developers to add screen capture capabilities within an app without rooting the device.

One of the first companies who provide a mobile screen recorder that requires NO device rooting is ilos. ilos is providing an Android and iOS app. However, only the Android app can be used to record the current screen to capture bugs in your app. The iOS app is only able to get access to already taken videos from your account. As soon as Apple provide such a feature in iOS ilos will also offer the screen recording feature for the iOS version.

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How to File Mobile Bugs

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mobile_bugIf you find a bug within a mobile app, you need to report it in order to get it fixed. Filing mobile bug reports requires some additional information that the developers need in order to reproduce and fix the bug.

But what is important when filing a mobile bug? What should a bug report look like?

Before I answer those two questions, I want to raise another one: “Why even send a bug report?”

Bug reports are very important for the product owner, product manager and the developers. Firstly, a bug report tells the developers and the product owner about issues they were not aware of. They also help to identify possible new features no one has thought of and, last but not least, they provide useful information about how a customer may use the software. All of this information can be used to improve your software.

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GTAC 2014 Day 2

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And here is the second day and video from the Google Test Automation Conference. At the second day there were again talks from Google, Facebook, American Express, Adobe or Comcast. This day was again just great, with great topics and great speakers. Check out the attached video and enjoy the various topics about test automation. Happy Testing!