The document outlines the author's journey in building and evolving a mobile test team, detailing the challenges faced, processes introduced, and lessons learned. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration between developers and testers, the need for automation, and iterative improvement in testing practices. Key takeaways include scaling testing efforts accordingly, embracing CI/CD practices, and the integration of testing into development processes.

1. HOW DID I BUILD UP A MOBILETESTTEAM,THEN
BREAK IT DOWN?
OR THE EVOLUTION OF THE TEST TEAM
Csaba Szabó
Senior Test Engineer

2. WHERE AREYOU? WHAT’STHIS?
• Story, learnings, retrospective
• How (not) to test mobile apps
• Who is it for?
• What won’t be?
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3. WHY ME?
• BME - LogMeIn - Distinction - Skyscanner
• I wanted to be a mobile app developer
• From zero, with lots of failures
• Team leader: 1 → 6 → 3 → ?
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4. THE BEGINNING
• My first task - manual testing
• Little projet - unit test?
• I had to introduce processes
• You can be the bad guy (if you do it badly)
“Developers and testers should be friends.”
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5. WHAT DID I INTRODUCE?
• JIRA: bug, workflow
• Test documentation (NO)
• Continues builds and version numbering
• Fiddler, the Swiss-Knife (Dixie)
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6. WHAT’S NEXT?
• Innovation!
• “Ask, don’t predict”
“One sentence”
• What not? UI testing, unit test writing, static code analysis
• Then what?
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7. • CI/CD - what’s the goal?
• Gitflow, pull request, build script
• Jenkins vs ?
• Show, ask, iterate
• Test → DevOps
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8. UITESTING
• (!) you can lose months
We had > 500 UI tests
• Process, maintenance, close to the code
• Side effect: screenshot
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9. THE CODE ANDTHETESTER
• “I'm an engineer”
• Catch the bug at the end (app)
Catch the bug at the beginning (code)
• Change the roles
• Test → Dev
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10. WHERE WE DID MISTAKES
• Too much manual testing
• Scaling problems
• “Automation will solve it”
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11. HOW WE FIXED IT
• Test + Dev = Engineer
• Focus on Pull requests
• Bigger developer responsibility
• Crowdsource and beta testing
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12. HOW BIGS ARE DOING IT?
• Scaling - they have different problems and solutions
• Google: SE > SET >TE
• Facebook: dogfood and internal crowdsource
• Spotify: model-based testing
(funfact: iOS-Test-Generator)
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13. IF I WOULD HAVE MORETIME
• Scale the testing for your project
• More CI / CD
• RCA
• More UI testing
• Release management and monitoring
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14. SUMMARISING
• Manual testing is important, but can be too much
Scale it to your project
• Testing is complex and far-reaching
• Good developer tests
• Introduce automation iteratively
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15. THANKYOU
• Questions?
Csaba Szabó - Skyscanner
csaba.szabo@skyscanner.net
http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/
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