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Mobile application testing – Quick Tips (Tea-time with Testers)

admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:44:00 +0000

The mobile applications are continuously
changing. Every week, you could get cool mobile apps and now it is so easy to
interact with the world around us with these mobile apps. Day by day, it
becomes very difficult and challenging to perform mobile application testing.
Through the mobile application industry is changing continuously but there is
nothing to get discouraged at all.

The mobile application boom has brought change
in almost all the industry. There are magazines and newspapers that have become
100% digital, many retail business are performing well online, mobile bookings,
check-ins through mobile, tablets and mobile apps (Read more...)

TESTHEAD Gives Props to Tea Time (TESTHEAD)

admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:00 +0000

This may seem an odd title, but I assure you, it’s appropriate, and well deserved.

A few weeks ago, Lalit Bhamare, the editor-in-chief of Tea Time With Testers, an online magazine that I have contributed to, asked me if I’d be willing to offer some commentary for a video clip that they wanted to produce, I said “Sure!”

Below is the result:

Bernice Niel Ruhland, Jay Philips, Keith Klain, Rajesh Mathur and I contributed audio interviews to the clip.

Bottom line, I’m happy to see this voice for the software testing world getting more press and notice, and I (Read more...)

Dear Google (Dancing in the Wilderness)

admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:38:27 +0000

I don’t think you did it. Now, how do we make it better? There are these things called apps. They run on the smart phone, and everybody has one. The smart phone has a radio, and gps software runs on that radio. Is the data that runs through those apps put into queues and kept forever? Interesting question. What kinds of apps can you make to fix this little problem? What kinds of apps can we make such that we have a better world?

Guru99: Aiming to be the NetTuts of Software Testing? (TESTHEAD)

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:30:00 +0000

One of the more interesting aspects of working on this site over the past few years is the fact that people reach out to me to ask them to take a look at what they are doing and to comment on it. I’m honored to get these requests, but lament the fact that I don’t have enough time to really get in and do sites like this justice. I decided to change that and take a look at a site recommended to me called Guru99.

Guru99 bills itself as a site that aims to help testers learn concepts and (Read more...)

A new teams encounter with DET/TET as a framework for testing – Part 1-Context (Happytesting)

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:27:30 +0000

Over the last year I have been asked many times about how to implement DET/TET at a new company. Since most of my experiences have been within Jayway where the concept is accepted, I have not been able to answer that question in a good way. This is my story of implementing DET in a company which had not been using it before or very much any other formal testing. Since i got the question, this company is not Atlassian, but my last assignment before my move.

In this first post I want to give some context about the assignment, (Read more...)

Two Easy Steps to Success! (Sowing Seeds)

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:23:31 +0000

I’m tired of whiners.

I hear people complaining about the way “things” are. They come and vent about how they don’t like something, and then… silence. They just stop talking just when the story SHOULD get good. They don’t have a “and this is what I want to do about it” portion of the story, let alone a “this is what I AM GOING TO DO about it” part. Why is that? Can’t they see that if you don’t try to fix the problem you have, it’s not going to go away on it’s own?

I’m also tired of people (Read more...)

Oslo TestPub #6 Mobile Test Automation (+1 Testing)

admin — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:42:20 +0000

Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Odd-Arne Bjørklund (@bjorklo) it has now been held no less that six TestPubs in Oslo over the last year. It seems like the crowd is growing steadily and this time the topic was Mobile Test Automation. Although it had very little to do with automating testing while on the […]

Popular books for testers (Magnifiant: exploring software testing)

admin — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:31:08 +0000

I love to read and I own many books on testing, software, management and other stuff that relates to my work.

But what should a tester read? On this blog I recommend several books in my great resources list. And what do other testers recommend? My curiosity kicked in and I sent out an email to my tester friends around the world.

Every year the Dutch association for software testers TestNet organizes two one-day conferences. This year TestNet has chosen context-driven testing as the theme for their autumn event in October (call for papers is here). To help (Read more...)

On Testing Purpose and Documented Requirements (Rhythm of Testing)

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:37:00 +0000

It has been a really crazy busy four weeks at the day job. Somehow, I ended up with several “challenged” projects in my lap. Yesterday was rather strange, in fact. I got in at my new “normal” time of 7:45 and realized that there was no reason for me to be there that early. All the troubled projects were sorted out, there were no emergencies or top-priority bugs waiting further investigation. There were no outstanding tasks to do before getting my first coffee of the morning. Everything was kind of… dull.

The cool thing was a comment that a Project (Read more...)

The Wit in Twitter (Hiccupps)

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:58:00 +0000

The joke was funny enough, but you’ve gotta love the punchline Twitter produced when I tried to add the tweet to my Favorites (click to enlarge):

Image: http://flic.kr/p/4ZSZPc