Am I Successful with my Software Testing Content?

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Some time ago, I got asked by some of you, from the software testing community, the following question: Daniel, how can I become as successful as you are?” This question triggered many things inside my brain and body. In today’s video, I want to talk about my “success”. Am I successful with all the software … Read more

Mobile Testing Challenges to overcome with Tricentis Testim

Mobile Testing Challenges

Ad | Mobile testing presents numerous challenges for both software testers and mobile developers. One major hurdle is the diverse range of devices, each with its unique hardware and software combinations. Managing these devices becomes crucial, especially considering their multitude of sensors and hardware capabilities (e.g. WiFi, GPS, etc.). The integration of these sensors into … Read more

[Reblog] Android Smartphone Test Farm

This post is a reblog from the XING developer blog. In the last week we had our quarterly HackWeek at XING. During the week I was working with some colleagues on a project to setup a Android Smartphone Test Farm based on openstf.io.

Excerpt from the original version:

Mobile is becoming increasingly important for companies that build web applications, and that also includes XING. Over 50% of our platform traffic comes from mobile devices. This in turn leads a constant increase in the complexity and amount of testing work required on mobile devices.

Our challenge

At the beginning of 2015 XING launched a new internal initiative called “Unleashing Mobile”. The idea behind it is to upscale mobile development from a single mobile team to multiple teams within the company. The previous team setup was simply not able to keep pace with the development speed of the web platform and bring more and more features to the Android, iOS and Windows Phone mobile platforms. As things stand, we have 5 mobile feature teams developing features like profile, jobs, content or messages. Besides that, each platform has a central core team divided up into a platform and framework sub-team. The core platform team works on features that haven’t yet been passed on to the domain teams. As well as building its own app features, the core team has adopted more of a consulting role in helping to keep the whole app consistent and clean. Another key task of the central core teams is to integrate all of the code changes every two weeks to make sure that a stable app version can be released to our users.

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