Testing of hybrid mobile applications
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 platforms...
View ArticleTesting hard to reach app states with a custom debug shell
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 to test manually. Often I...
View ArticleAndroid Networking: How to Mock the Internet
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...
View ArticleCross platform testing example for Android and iOS using Appium
I have been working in a couple of projects where we have created the “same” application in both Android and iOS. In most cases they look and behave the same way (except for the platform specific...
View ArticleContinuous Deployment of AWS Lambda behind API Gateway
In two previous blog posts I started by introducing scripts for Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda and then I continued to experiment with Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway. This blog...
View ArticleHone your craft: approaches to making code testable
I recently read a blog post about using shims to unit test without interfaces. It looks really compelling, so I thought I’d explore some ways to create testable code to determine if I like the idea of...
View ArticlePettson & Findus Testing
At one point I calculated that less than 2% of my work time was test execution. There is so much more to the test profession than meets the eye, and I would like to illustrate this with a classic...
View ArticleWho’s testing in your team?
There’s no denying it. Testing is awesome and the most fun and amazing part of any product development! Strangely enough, I have found that most people look at me weird when I exclaim something like...
View ArticleCorona Pair Testing
Some years ago, I had been talking at an awesome test conference and brought home a deck of playing cards designed to help get your team excited about quality. In full optimism I tried to bring up the...
View ArticleBad Testing is Worse than No Testing
Thus far I have written about how great test and quality work is. This is not the whole picture – far too often, quality work is not a pleasant experience. It is soul crushing to do a job that you know...
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