Android networking doesn’t sound very radical nowadays. Actually, it’s hard to find apps that don’t have some sort of network dependency. Some of them won’t even start without a stable network. Others may just degrade gracefully […]
I have worked in a few app projects that have been up and running for quite some time. The apps often handle a bunch of error states or seldom visited states that are hard […]
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native “wrapper” for the different […]
In our current project we are using Robolectric when writing unit tests for our Android application and it has been working out really well. Recently I needed to write a test case that performed […]
Robotium is a UI test framework for Android applications. With Robotium, test case developers can in easy fashion write function and system tests for Android applications. Robotium has until now only had support for native […]
This post is part of a series about the framework Deja vu. The previous post examplified the core Deja vu framework. As mentioned the examples did not reflect how it should be done in […]
I was at Agile testing days in Potsdam as a speaker. The conference is quite a nice experience as a speaker. I don’t know the numbers, but I think it was about 500-600 people […]
This years Øredev conference was yet another success. As a part of the program committee I can once more conclude that a great program combined with just awesome keynotes is a steady backbone in […]
Working as a consulting test manager in my latest project, a new website with 20 local sites, I was planning user acceptance testing which would be done by using all project members, reference groups, […]
Testability and the means to abstract away your persistence layer in Windows Azure – two things that you don’t get for free. But you can get it really cheap, you just need some generics, […]
For quite some time now I have struggled with making note taking a natural part of my personal progress while testing. And well, I can say that it has really made impact on many […]
The chaos monkey, a mythical creature. I had actually never heard of it until I read Jeff Atwood’s post (which is excellent and you should read it). Then I realized that I’ve worked with […]
Since november 2010 you may create test user accounts on Facebook for your application, so that you may test your application without creating dummy accounts and possibly break the Facebook EULA. The test users […]