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Android Tool for Mac

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Android Tool for Mac - Adventures in QA

If you are a mobile tester or a mobile developer you may not have the problem to create screenshots or videos from the current develop state of your app. You will probably use tools like adb for Android or QuickTime for iOS in order to capture a video. However, this is not the case for prodct owners, scrum master, mobile designer or any other non-technical colleague on the project. They may have not installed the mobile development tools like Android Studio or Xcode.

Thanks to my colleague, Daniel Guse, who pointed me to the tool Android Tool for Mac. With the help of this tool it is very easy to capture screenshots or videos from Android applications right from the desktop.

Features of Android Tool for Mac

The tool is offering the following features:

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Reading Recommendations # 32

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Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 32nd issue of the reading recommendation contains 6 posts. This issue contains again an article from Katrina Clokie about “Accessibility & Usability Testing Pathway”. Katrina collected again very useful information about the topic of accessibility and usability testing. Her post is similar to Mobile Testing Pathway (katrinatester.blogspot.de/2015/08/mobile-testing-pathway.html) which was part of the last reading recommendations. I really like this format and I hope there will be more posts like this.
Furthermore, this issue contains post about topics like “Rhythm of Testing: Hanging with the Cool Kids and Self-worth”, “Software Testing is not for Attention Seekers”, “How a bug in Visual Studio 2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500 in a few hours” and there is a post from the Google Blog announcing that Android Wear now works with iPhones.

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.

Reading Recommendations Daniel KnottKatrina the Tester: Accessibility & Usability Testing Pathway
Source: katrinatester.blogspot.de/2015/08/accessibility-usability-testing-pathway.html

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[Reblog] Scaling Mobile at XING: Platform, Framework and Domain Teams

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At XING, my current employer we had to handle some exciting challenges. We had to scale the whole mobile development as well as mobile testing from two small mobile teams (Android and iOS) to the whole software development department at XING. My colleague Alexey Krivitsky wrote a great blog post about “Scaling Mobile at XING: Platform, Framework and Domain Teams” at InfoQ. … Read more

Rotation Tour in Mobile Testing

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Rotation Tour in Mobile Testing - Adventures in QA

When I plan my mobile testing efforts and activities, I always plan to perform some special testing with the help of heuristics/ mnemonics. I use the heuristics to concentrate on a specific part of the app to find different behaviors and bugs. I hope you are all familiar with the touring heuristics within software testing. If not, here is a short overview of very known and popular heuristics/ mnemonics.

There is the touring heuristic FCC CUTS VIDS from Michael D. Kelly. Where FCC CUTS VIDS should remind you of several testing tours you can perform on your software. FCC CUTS VIDS stands for:

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Reading Recommendations # 30

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Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

Time’s flying, this is already the 30th issue of my software testing reading recommendations. So far I recommended over 150 links to blog posts, podcasts or videos. I got lots of great feedback from my readers about this format on my blog. This issue contains again 7 very interesting posts about different topics. Lisa Crispins describes her learnings from the Agile 2015 conference. Neil Studd is writing about how to motivate testers. Furthermore there are posts about “Where do Testers go with Agile”, “Barcode detection in Play Services”, “Testing early vs. late”, “10 Ways to hire niche employees” and another post about “Automated tests do not improve your testing process”.

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.

(Some of) what I learned at Agile 2015 – Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin
Source: lisacrispin.com/2015/08/09/some-of-what-i-learned-at-agile-2015

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