My Testing Sticker

Stickers - Adventures in QA

Since a couple of years every laptop has at least one sticker on its lid. Stickers became very popular in the tech industry and every developer, designer, product manager or software tester has stickers on the back of the laptop. Either to show which company they are working for or which tools they are using or just to decorate them.

I have also several stickers on my laptop lid, mainly mobile related ones. Just yesterday, I had the idea to create my own sticker to spread the word about my book. I came up with 4 versions and I want to ask you guys for some feedback. Three stickers are showing the text “KEEP CALM and Perform Hands-On Mobile App Testing” but every version has some slight differences. The fourth sticker is showing “Eddy”, a bug carrying a mobile device (I draw him myself).

Which version do you like most? Please leave a comment. I am looking forward to them.

And here are the sticker prototypes.

My Testing Sticker

Version 1: Just Text

My Testing Sticker - Adventures in QA

 

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User Interface Testing by Apple

UI Testing by Apple - Adventures in QA

On this year’s WWDC 15 Apple presented a new way of user interface testing within Xcode 7. With the new version of Xcode Apple introduces user interface testing as a brand new feature of the existing XCText framework. The great thing about the new ui testing approach is that it is an extension to the existing APIs and concepts in XCTest. Developers who are familiar with XCode’s testing features will have no problems to adopt ui testing in their daily working life.

Apple introduced UI recording to Xcode where developers and testers are able to capture the current activities on the iOS simulator directly into the test method. Also interaction with the app will be recorded and added as test steps. The tool is using the accessibility labels in order to recognize the elements within the app. UI testing can be used with Swift and Objective-C, there is no need for JavaScript testing anymore. However, UI testing is only working with iOS9 devices.

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Reading Recommendations # 20

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 20th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 9 blog posts. There are posts dealing with the following topics, how a nasty bug iOS message bug can crash the whole phone by just receiving a message, there is the announcement post for the Google Test Automation Conference 2015 in Cambridge (greater Boston), a post about the real world, a very interesting post about where software testers should go for vacation and why eBay rejects ISO 29119. Furthermore, there is a post from Markus Gaertner why you should attend CAST 2015, how to think like a tester. There is a post about the topic test all or test small and how Atlassian moved from Quality Assurance to Quality Assistance.

Enjoy reading the posts.

iOS bug causes Messages to crash, iPhone to reboot when a certain text is received | 9to5Mac

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Win a Copy of Hands-On Mobile App Testing

Hands-On Mobile App Testing Cover - Adventures in QA

Since May my book is available in the printed edition in different online and offline stores and I got lots of great feedback from readers. Just this week a very cool package arrived with some free copies of my book that I can use to give away to other people. Some of the copies are … Read more

Writing for Mobile-Zeitgeist

Mobile-Zeitgeist Logo - Adventures in QAMaybe some of you, especially the german speaking readers of my blog, have noticed it. I am now writing blog post from time to time also on Mobile-Zeitgeist. Mobile-Zeitgeist is a known german blog about the mobile world which covers topics like mobile marketing, mobile advertisement, mobile commerce, mobile web & apps, mobile markets, mobile solutions, mobile development and any kind of mobile technologies. Besides that mobile-zeitgeist is also providing a mobile job section.

Since years, I am a reader of this blog and in the beginning of this year I thought, why not writing for them to add some mobile testing topics to this great blog. I contacted Heike Scholz, who is the creator of this blog and she really liked my commitment to contribute to the blog.

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