bugTeaser!!!

Love teasing bugs!!

It is my passion to get my hands on the gadgets and try to explore them. Obviously, I will not ask friends, or relatives to lend their gadgets to me as if something goes wrong it will be me the culprit. I was scold by my father in my childhood for using my uncle's gadget and something went wrong with it [it was a lesson for me]. Since that day it was his teaching that kept me out of these possibilities. I do not have any regret for this and I happily appreciate the advice that he gave me in those earlier days of my life.


However, I enjoy the exploration on my smartphone and practice various testing activities. It took a while to understand everything but it was not that much time though. It is always fun when you explore on your own rather than following some set of well outlined instructions. This way you get to hit the spots where the outlined instructions might not want you to go [for good or bad reason]. It is just like not to follow the scripts but to use exploration, and learn more about the product. [What the instructions would not have taught me, if I have followed them?] Things are really fast when something has to be checked and the mobile plays a vital role. It may take time to put on your system, connect to the internet but by that time if you have access to internet on mobile, you're almost done. There is indeed wide range of things that can be checked on a go.


Mobile testing is an area where you need to have access to various devices as that gives you clear idea of a problem you might come across. It is also important as it helps in broader coverage for testing of the application. Having few devices with me it is at times becomes difficult but then I try to spend some time on investigation on web whether this is a problem with the set or not. Different devices have different capabilities when it comes to the support for features. So, in my case having access to the smart phone that I have, I need to try out various options, ways to conclude that I have come across a bug.


Simulators or the testing for mobile sites on web does not give the real, accurate information, and at times it performs totally different for various reasons. It is always good to test something that is supposed to test on real devices and these option can be tried out to double check. The decision is very important when you come across some problem on your device, this may cause for various reasons connectivity, features not supported on the device, there is some problem with the application you are testing currently. The best way to tackle this problem though to make use of available resources like take the screen shot of the problem or try to make a video. Once you have this information then you can again try out the same set of steps to make sure that there is indeed a problem, and if you do not figure or do not come across the problem again, that does not mean that there is no problem though. Here the earlier videos or screen shots you have plays the vital role and you can search for the problem on the web to see what all results it displays. If you see the problem you come across has been reported then there is indeed a problem but now you need to make sure that you have to reproduce it. Patience is the key.

Best Regards,

Amit

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