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Reading Recommendations # 44

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Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

Welcome back in 2016 to the first edition of my reading recommendations which has the number 44 in total. Since many people are still on vacation this edition of the reading recommendations contains 8 posts from 2015. However, that doesn’t mean that this blog posts are outdated yet :), no there are again lots of great posts that you should read. Maybe it is in your new year’s resolutions, to read more relevant posts in that case you found a good spot.

This edition contains post with the topics “The New Model and Testing v Checking”, “Five Myths About Automated Mobile UI Testing You Thought Were True”, “Mobile A/B Testing”, “10 Points Checklist for Testing Your Mobile Apps”, “3 Tips To Help Testers Ask Better Questions”, “Pivotal Labs Finds Success With Self-Managed Teams”, “Hiring for skills and team diversity” and “Testpappy’s International Testing Standard”.

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

The New Model and Testing v CheckingThe New Model and Testing v Checking | Gerrard Consulting
Source: gerrardconsulting.com/?q=node/659

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State of Testing Survey 2016

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State of Testing Survey 2016 - Adventures in QA

Time flies and the State of Testing Survey 2016 is coming around the corner. I hope you guys participated in the previous state of testing survey to provide the software testing community with useful insights in our community. In the previous testing survey from 2015 more than 900 people from all over the world participated. In 2013, 600 participants completed the survey and the goal for the 2016 survey is to reach more than 1000 participants. If you like to contribute to this survey and to spread the word about it, you can either blog, tweet or talk about it on the social media platforms of your choice. While helping to spread the word about the survey, your blog will be listed as project collaborator and will show the community that you care about software testing and that you support the community. To get more information about it visit the survey page http://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing/ and send the survey team a message to ask for more information and to inform them, that you are participating in spreading the word.

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One thing not to forget when you are done testing

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The following article “One thing not to forget when you are done testing” is a guest post by Joel Montvelisky, Chief Solution Architect at PractiTest, a test management tool and blog owner of QA Intelligence where he writes about all things related to Testing; the good, the bad and the funny.

OK, so you and your team just completed a full testing project.

You created new tests for it, ran your cycles on multiple devices achieving the coverage you needed for release, you found a bunch of important bugs that were fixed (and some that were set for a later version), and throughout the whole process you provided valuable feedback to the product team on the features that you ended up releasing.

All in all you and your team did a pretty good job – Congratulations!

Now, as it usually happens you are also late to start your next project (or two?!) and you just want to get running with those tests…

But wait!!!

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Blog Review 2015

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Blog Review 2015 - Adventures in QASince 2011 it’s a tradition for me to post a blog review of my blog to give you as my readers some insights. The year 2015 was again a very exciting year for me and the blog. One thing was my absolute highlight this year. It was the release of my book “Hands-On Mobile App Testing” in the printed edition by Addison-Wesley. When I released the book in 2014 on leanpub, I never expected that a book publishing company will ever print my book and this makes me really proud :). But today is not about my book, it’s about my blog which helped me to shape my knowledge in the software testing industry and which led me to write a book at all.

Before I go into details, I want to say thank you to all of my readers. Thanks for checking my blog from time to time and to read the content that I am producing. The feedback I got in the last year was just great and feels really good. It made me proud to see that the numbers of unique users, page impressions and comments have increased also in 2015.

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Today I want to share some numbers and highlights with you. While collecting all the numbers for this post I was kind of surprised by one number which is 104. During the year 2015, I wrote 104 blog posts which is amazing (I would have never guessed this number).
Most of my posts where dealing with mobile testing, people in testing and my reading recommendations.

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Whiteboard Testing

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Whiteboard TestingWhile I was on vacation, Richard Bradshaw (@FriendlyTester) had a problem. He was looking for relevant software testing videos e.g. on YouTube to learn something new. However, he always had two problems either the content was bad or just to long. He was looking for great, not so lengthy, software testing videos that explain a certain topic in a couple of minutes to extend his knowledge. The fact that nothing like this was out there on the Internet made him thinking about a solution. In his blog post, Richard mentioned that he was starting to outline and mind map ideas on how to solve the problem on his whiteboard. While drawing and writing on his whiteboard he had the idea to record the drawings and to upload them to an own YouTube channel called “Whiteboard Testing“.

In the first video of the Whiteboard Testing channel, Richard is explaining the idea behind it. The goal is to create a collection of short software testing videos not longer than 10 minutes from various people who want to share their software testing knowledge with others. Have a look at the introduction video:

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