The increasing usage of smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices have fueled the growth of mobile applications thereby creating a strong need for mobile application testing. Mobile devices have become the predominant medium for communication worldwide. The main goal of testing is not only to find errors, instead, it should be used to check whether the app works well, whether it meets the function as expected and it meet all the needs of users. In mobile application testing, you need to consider a mix of different techniques and methods as it provides unique challenges. Also, you will need to think of various testing strategies that links different testing options that as a whole, delivers the best overall testing result, which matches the tradeoffs between cost, quality, and time-to-market. In this blog post, we examine various testing options for mobile applications which you need to consider in determining your testing strategy.

Testing Plans:

Emulators vs. Physical Devices:

Device fragmentation:

Cloud-based testing is a needed option for testing mobile applications. Cloud computing offers a web-based mobile testing environment, where applications can be deployed, tested, and managed effectively. Cloud-based application testing delivers the following benefits, Cloud testing environments have the ability to support complex applications. It helps the problems of testing dynamic, complex, and differing applications in an in-house environment. One of the main benefits of cloud testing is the amount of scalability it provides to control an application’s capacity threshold. It offers real-time testing results through which, the defects can be analyzed while the tests are running.

Most of the mobile applications depend on network connectivity to deliver rich functionality. Therefore, testing mobile apps in real network environments is very much important, to get the real picture and to evaluate the performance of the app. Several network simulation tools are available to test mobile apps in various network speeds, bandwidths variations, etc., which can add great value to the testing activities. In addition to testing the app in a full internet connectivity scenario, some of the other factors should also be considered by the testers.

The factors are,

We hope that the testing strategies we highlighted above will be helpful in overcoming some of the obstacles of mobile application testing and also that it might help build quality mobile apps for your customers.