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Reading Recommendations # 31

May 7, 2018August 26, 2015 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

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

Reading Recommendations # 29

May 7, 2018August 12, 2015 by Daniel

The 29th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 7 blog posts. There is a very interesting article on Hiring Testers and on Interview questions for possible new software testers. Furthermore, there is a blogpost from Uber and how they build their own mobile test automation framework called Octopus. There is another post from Richard about Testability Question. Lisa Crispin wrote an article about confidence which is really worth reading. Then there is a post about Personas and another with the topic “Amazon and Testing in Production”.

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.

	Friendly Tester – Testability Question at CAST 2015
Source: www.thefriendlytester.co.uk/2015/08/testability-question-at-cast2015.html

People in Testing Interview with José Díaz

May 7, 2018August 10, 2015 by Daniel

This time in the “People in Testing” series, I had the chance to interview José Díaz the creator of the famous software testing conference in Europe, the Agile Testing Days.

Daniel: What is currently your biggest challenge at work?

José: Due to the great job of my colleagues during the last years we are growing extremely fast. The challenge is to find the right people that fit into the company’s culture and are able to work in the innovative projects of our clients.

What do you think is the most important skill software testers should have?

I don’t think that there is only one. It is a combination of a few. In my eyes, you do not need to be the best tester ever to help your team. I think that respect for the work of the people involved in the project and also the ability to be a team member and contributing your individual strengths are very important. The skills should match with the project and the team and therefore may change from project to project.