Win a Copy of Hands-On Mobile App Testing

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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

Cloud Test Lab by Google

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Google is going to launch a new product called Cloud Test Lab which will be available this summer for developers and testers within the Google Play Developer Console. Google will provide the twenty most popular Android devices from around the world that can be used to test your app on real devices. Besides that, there … Read more

Reading Recommendations # 19

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The 19th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 9 blog posts and one video. There are posts dealing with the topics if agile teams don’t need testers, what a grandma can teach you about programming and automation, a very interesting post from Neil Studd about testing for dark patterns. There is another post about the evolution of the error, a post about mistakes. Another post is describing a leader’s framework for decision making, Mark Miller is writing about great leadear’s serve. A very interesting article from Maaret Pyhäjärvi about on how wait times improved her testing. The last article is from John Stevenson about technical vs. non-technical testers.

Enjoy reading the posts.

Reading Recommendations Daniel KnottAgile teams don’t need testers – They need Quality Coach | Scandinavian Coder

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Printed Edition of Hands-On Mobile App Testing

Hands-On Mobile App Testing - Adventures in QAMy book Hands-On Mobile App Testing is now available in the printed copy edition in all online and offline bookstores. If you visit the book landing page http://handsonmobileapptesting.com/ you get further information about the book as well as a free chapter.

If you are interested in some more details about each chapter you can have a look at the rough cuts on safari books online.

I am very happy and proud that I was able to write this book. While writing the book I improved some of my personal skills. For example, I improved my english writing skills (at least I hope so :)). I learned that it is very important to be focused on a certain topic instead of jumping through chapters. I improved my organizational skills, I learned to be patient, critical to myself and to be tenacious.

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Reading Recommendations # 15

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The 15th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 7 blog posts. There are posts dealing with the topics responsive website testing, what time means to us, dark fears of a software tester, sketchnotes from the TestBash conference in Brighton. Furthermore, there are great posts about the topic “What do you think testers need to do to be taken seriously”, “Overcoming test automation challenges” and “Inattentional Blindness” which is my favorite for this issue.

Enjoy reading the posts.

TestSheepNZ: Developing an approach to responsive design website testing

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