This article follows up my previous one on the cost of testing mobile websites without any mobile device.
There are less counterpart tools exposed here since testing a native application de facto excludes tools like User Agents or browser development toolset.
This article follows up Stephane’s upon the variety of methods available for testing mobile applications when you lack some of the physical hardware required: ‘How to test on smartphones without smartphones?’
Be careful nonetheless to the relevance of those tests…
“Software testing conferences are so expensive that the best way to attend one is to be selected as a speaker.”: those have been my words for the last years. Having been selected as a speaker, I headed to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, in June 2016, for a promising 2-days conference that I had been recommended by one of my previous managers as being one of the best he ever attended in Europe.”
If you have read my first article about this conference as an audience member, you may have already been convinced that this conference is awesome to attend! You may however still need to be persuaded that it is also a really good experience to be a speaker there; In that case here are few points detailing my feedback as a presenter. …
Software testing conferences have spread up very quickly those last years. With nearly every country in Europe having its own, it can become difficult to make a choice when attending one.
After hearing a very good feedback from the Nordic Testing Days conference in Estonia from one of my previous managers, which compared it to a dozen of others, I decided to follow his recommendation: well, I was not disappointed at all. Let me present you here a summary of what happened.
It is 9 AM on Thursday, 2nd of June, in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia: the public is gathered in the biggest room and waits for the conference to start. The chairwoman comes up on stage, starts her speech, and within the next five minutes she makes a striking announcement: ‘We have plenty of food for the testers gathered here, because we don’t like hungry testers: they may start breaking software!”.
The audience laughs. The context and tone is set up. It sounds promising.