palinQA workshops: Basic Mobile Testing

Practical tips & tricks is the best way to learn, so this time palinQA will have an event which will allow participants not only to listen to great speakers, but as well have hands-on walk-throughs.

EPAM's team of testers was great at helping us to organize this meetup: not only they will provide us venue with pizzas, but as well... all speakers.

Basic Mobile Testing workshop will have short workshop type talks. No prior knowledge is required. You will just need your phone. Please do easy setup before coming to event (details are below in Important information).

1. Importance of field testing – Balázs Márk Molnár (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bal%C3%A1zs-m%C3%A1rk-moln%C3%A1r-85607584)
   How critical the field tests are when it comes to testing mobile applications or can we simulate the lifelike environment?I'll briefly summarize the importance of field testing and walk you through the potential workarounds using a fitness application as an example.

2. Practical mobile tips – Péter Földházi (https://hu.linkedin.com/in/p%25C3%25A9ter-f%25C3%25B6ldh%25C3%25A1zi-492434a7) / Balázs Kékes (https://hu.linkedin.com/in/balazskekes)
   Testing mobile applications and services is a challenging task. A fast growing area of IT with so many different factors makes our work more time consuming.In this session we would like to show you tips and tricks that will help your daily life as a mobile tester, and will effectively increase the useful time spent on test execution, bug tracking and monitoring with hands-on practices.

3. Aspects of mobile web, hybrid and native app solutions – Árpád Hegedűs (https://hu.linkedin.com/in/arpad-hegedus-12a582105) / Erik Fenekes (https://hu.linkedin.com/in/erik-fenekes-02505b2)
   Industry adopted multiple solutions to deliver content to customers on mobile devices. Using an example application we will walk you through the capabilities and various considerations of each approach, provide you with insights on what testing challenges you might likely to face and let you try the look’n’feel differences.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Preparation is needed upfront for the practical exercises

To make this event a bit more interactive we'd like to ask you to perform the below steps. Although Wifi access will be granted on the spot, we’d like to limit the amount of potential distractions and keep the sessions as efficient as possible.

In case you miss to carry out the below steps or you don’t have a suitable phone, you’ll have a chance to see how your neighbor carries out some of simple tasks.

Android - Download

QR code reader: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=la.droid.qr

Lockito fake GPS app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.dvilleneuve.lockito

Hotels.com: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hcom.android (will be used for demonstrational purposes)

Enable developer options on Android: http://www.androidauthority.com/enable-developer-options-569223/

IPhone - Download

Hotels.com: https://itunes.apple.com/hu/app/hotels.com-hotel-booking-last/id284971959 (will be used for demonstrational purposes)

QR code reader: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/qr-reader-for-iphone/id368494609?mt=8