Check Out The Best Mobile App Testing Strategies
With each passing day, smartphones are becoming an inseparable part of each one of us. The same is also applicable to corporates. Having a mobile app or a mobile website is mandatory for any business. Moreover, there are many new businesses emerged which are based on the mobile app. Many of us believe that smooth functioning of the app depends on the kind of platform used and the features developed. The fact is that users are likely to uninstall the app if it is creating problems, regardless how promising or cool it may seem. On the contrary, even the simplest applications can gain the attention of the user and bring in more business if it works flawlessly.
Mobile App Testing
Testing is the Answer to all the Mobile App Concerns
Mobile testing is the answer to all the mobile woes and helps developers prevent failure of a program. However, knowing that testing should take place and determine what to test are different things. It is a challenging task to find out the specific elements that need to be tested, if in case any vital aspect is missed out, the application can turn out to be erroneous. There are various areas that should be tested, and different features under every category as well.
Mobile Application Testing is more challenging than the web application due to the various factors which affect the functioning of the application. Some of these factors include different operating systems and their versions, different screen sizes and different networks. In this challenging phase of planning and testing a mobile application, to ease down the process, follow the below mentioned useful strategies:
DEVICE TESTING – In this arena of advanced technology, there are available a lot of mobile devices with the different types of screen sizes and operating systems. As per the statistics, there are somewhere around 24,000 devices which have different screen sizes. In any case, it is next to impossible to make an application optimized for all of these devices. Therefore, the expert professionals always create a list of the devices it is going to support. In this way, QA follows the rules and ensure that the application supports all of the listed devices.
OS VERSION TESTING AND SUPPORT – Broadly speaking, the two OS available for mobile devices in the market are iOS and Android. Testing the applications would have never been a nerve wrecking task if we had only ONE operating system in the market. As compared to iOS, Android is taking the lead in releasing new versions of their operating system.
For QA team, testing application for all of these versions is a nightmare. The organizations abide by the testing policy which clearly states all versions of these operating systems are supported. This also enables the QA team to test each functionality on supported platforms.
NETWORK CONNECTIVITY TESTING – Different mobile operators provide various types of network connections which range from 1G to LTE. For an efficient mobile app testing, the tester tests the application on all the network speeds available broadly considering 4G, 3G and LTE. Moreover, the behavior of mobile application varies when used on Wi-Fi and 4G network. The tester also makes sure to test the app performance when there is a sudden transition of a network from 4G to 2G. Cases like what a user is supposed to do in case of loss of connectivity should also be covered.
INTERRUPT CONDITIONS – What are interrupt conditions? Interrupt condition is referred to any condition when there’s an incoming call or SMS while you’re using the application. This is the vital part of testing in which many organizations fail while setting the testing standards. Due to interrupt conditions with time the applications loses its in-progress activities. A tester needs to determine how an application reacts to any interruption, and resumes to its previous state.
SECURITY TESTING – For any given mobile app testing, security testing is the most crucial part. While performing security testing, the testers include the following three points:
• Data flow vulnerability – Testers need to look for the flow of data and where the data is stored.
• Check for data leakage – In this, testers ensure that the data does not get leaked between the logs.
• Data protection – Testers use automated tools to ensure there aren’t any loopholes in the software that may cause data loss, privacy concerns, and identify possible threats and vulnerabilities.
• Check for data leakage – In this, testers ensure that the data does not get leaked between the logs.
• Data protection – Testers use automated tools to ensure there aren’t any loopholes in the software that may cause data loss, privacy concerns, and identify possible threats and vulnerabilities.
There are several other strategies as well, but the testers always try to abide by the aforementioned ones. In this way, they are able to achieve a bug-free mobile release to an extent.
