Problem: There are not many good tutorials on Android unit testing Android applications are written in Java. So you probably think if you know JUnit, you can unit test Android applications. Surprise! JUnit is not sufficient for unit testing Android applications. Junit works when the code runs within a JVM. Android applications interact with the Android OS. So you need […]
Android unit testing: Android testing framework and Robolectric
JUnit: For beginners by a beginner
Problem: JUnit tutorials are often written by testers with a reasonable amount of unit checking expertise Why this post? There are plenty of JUnit tutorials available online. They are often written by testers with a reasonable amount of unit checking experience. The problem is that experts and beginners see things differently. I began noticing that beginners often read these JUnit […]
Two habits to improve the image of testers
Problem: “Manual testers” are often treated as second class citizens in the world of software. I wrote a long post about the ideas of the leading testing minds and Qxf2’s own thoughts on solving the perception problem around “manual testing”. Turns out that 1800+ words of my writing is a poor way to capture attention. Since the problem is near […]
Sign up: ‘State of testing’ survey
Wondering what the current state of testing is? Want to identify trends in our profession? Do you know what testers around the world identify as their top challenge? Joel Montvelisky (PractiTest, QA Intelligence) and Lalit Bhamare (Tea Time with Testers) are conducting a survey on the current state of testing. They plan to conduct a yearly survey – please join […]
Latest software testing blog posts
Stay in touch with the latest software testing blog posts: http://www.news.qxf2.com WHY? Its been a pet peeve of mine that testers do not read enough. The biggest and brightest names in the software testing space regularly share their thoughts and only a motivated few follow them. I have interviewed a hundred plus software test engineers. Only a handful of them […]