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Reading Recommendations # 31

May 7, 2018August 26, 2015 by Daniel

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The 31st issue of the reading recommendation contains again 7 posts. This time I collected different kind of topics for you. There are mobile and wearbale testing topics, hiring, blogging and conference related topics. My favorite this week is the post from Katrina Clokie. Katrina wrote the post “Mobile Testing Pathway” where she collected very useful mobile testing topics. Furthermore, she provided some really nice exercises for people to start with mobile testing.
There is another post with the topic “What is Mobile First?” and a interesting one about “The Apple Watch won’t change Testing”.

Then there is a post about naughty strings and how they can be used during testing. Other posts are dealing with the topics “How to write a great talk proposal for a tech conference”, “9 Habits of Bloggers Who Have Huge Audiences” and “Differences Between Hiring a Contractor or Consultant”.
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.

	QA Hates You » Blog Archive » Extra Naughty Strings
Source: qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2015/08/extra-naughty-strings

Rotation Tour in Mobile Testing

May 7, 2018August 24, 2015 by Daniel

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:

Reading Recommendations # 30

May 7, 2018August 19, 2015 by Daniel

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

Beta Testing for Android Apps

May 7, 2018August 3, 2015 by Daniel

Since a couple of years Google is offering beta testing for Android apps. With this feature companies or developers have the chance to release Android beta apps to mobile testers via the Google Play Store. This feature is integrated into the Google Play Developer Console and is very easy to use. All you have to do is to upload your beta apk file to the developer console and to publish the app to the known beta testers.
Mobile development teams are able to create their own beta testing community with the help of G+ communities or Google groups. Since last week, Google is offering two more options to improve the beta testing even further. With this update, mobile tester and developer are able to create a public beta tester group without the need of the G+ community or a Google group. All you have to do, is to enable this option in the developer console and to send the beta testing URL to possible testers.

The URL has the scheme: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.package.name. Whenever a tester is clicking this link he or she can become a beta tester of the app. After clicking the link, the beta tester will get an update of the app in the Google Play Store and is able to download the beta version.

Open Device Labs

May 7, 2018July 27, 2015 by Daniel

I often see posts on twitter or software testing communities where people asking for help regarding mobile device fragmentation and how to handle all those different devices. Usually my answer to this is, that you don’t need to test on that many mobile devices.

There are several ways to go. One way to go, is to gather user information from tracking statistics of the released app version. If the app is not yet released, statistics from the Web page (if in place) can help to gather information about the target customers and the devices they are using. If this kind of information is available you can start thinking about how to get at least the top 10 – 15 devices of the customers.