WHAT ALL FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED WHILE TESTING THE MOBILE APPLICATION
The global mobile application market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.5% from 2020 to 2027 to reach USD 366.34 billion by 2027.
We are a part of the 21st Century, If I talk about the services that mobile applications are now offering are very vast from booking a cab to ordering food and so on.
“Mobile Applications are inarguably the most disruptive technology invention in recent times and have had a very huge impact on human lives like no other. “
List of Contents:
(1) What is Mobile Application Testing?
(2) Why is Mobile Application Testing Needed?
(3) List of factors to be considered for Mobile Application Testing?
(4) Popular Tools Available in the market for performing Mobile Application Testing?
(5) Conclusion.
Explanation of Each Content are as Follow:
(1) What is Mobile Application Testing?
In layman’s terms, if I have to define mobile application testing, It is the process by which mobile application is tested for its functionality, usability, and many factors.
Mobile app testing is the process of running tests against a mobile application to make sure that its functionality and usability meet the requirements and the application is ready for launch.
General types of testing on mobile applications we perform (functional, performance, usability, security, load) as well as mobile-specific ones (interruption, memory leakage, location, certification, installation, and so on.)
As you can imagine, mobile app testing is a very complex and tedious procedure: ’n’ numbers of screen resolutions, different versions of operating systems, all kinds of connection types like 2G, 3G, 4G, etc. But you know we can’t hope for a perfect or I will say successful release of the mobile application without testing all these criteria. Mobile app testing guarantees that an app released through a marketplace is of superb quality and working as expected.
Mobile application testing is the process every application developed for handheld devices has to go through.
This, obviously, is to assure a certain level of quality before an application is released into the marketplace like (App Store -> For iOS Application/ Play Store-> For Android Application).
(2) Why is Mobile Application Testing Needed
Consider a real-life scenario, where a person is running a business, and while running a business, his/her main agenda should always be to provide the best and ultimate experience to its target audience. So that the audience/user should be able to use any mobile application very smoothly without any crash, the particular app's happy flow should also work very fine.
The following key Points Demonstrates that we need mobile Application Testing:
(1) Reputation of the Organization: If your Application is perfect, it ultimately
Increase the goodwill and pride of any organization.
(1) Increase the Loyalty of Customer: There are many types of customers who are using your app out of which few are not happy with your app, few are very happy, few are satisfied. But satisfied customers will always refer to or recommend your app in his/her network. With the help of this App download size or reach automatically increases.
(2) Revenue Factor: If your Customer reaches a high level and your user base is increasing day by day. The ultimate result is the growth of your business in terms of monetary factors.
(3) User Experience is the Key: If Your application is very good in terms of UI/UX. Users automatically like your application.
(4) Real Life Usage: As a user, the expectation of every user is always that the product or service I am using should be very easy to use and user-friendly. And if your application is tested fine, we can only achieve this thing by covering all the scenarios.
(3) List of factors to be considered for Mobile Application Testing?
(3.1) Network Connectivity :Mostly, users don’t wait for longer than 4 to 5 seconds for an app page to load. Hence, mobile testing should be taken up to check the impact of interruptions and network fluctuations.
(3.2) Security : Data leakage is one of the major problems every organization is facing or trying to overcome from it. Recently 2 giants, one is fast food brand Dominos, have faced this issue and linked also faces the same issue. It is very essential to get them thoroughly tested in terms of security. Users demand their personal data safety, and secure transactions.
(3.3) Compatibility: There are numerous types of mobile devices, and the mobile application should perform as expected across a combination of mobile devices and browsers. In order to check how compatible is your application is.
(3.4) Performance: The app performance is generally measured by how responsive your application is, how fastly it starts up, how well it uses its device memory, and how efficiently it uses its device power, and so many other factors.
(4) Popular Tools Available in the market for performing Mobile Application Testing?
There are ’n’ number of tolls that are available in the market for testing the mobile application
(1) Appium: This is a cross-platform test automation tool for native and hybrid Android & iOS. This open-source tool supports various programming languages such as Ruby, C#, Java, etc.
(2) Calabash: This is also a mobile application testing framework working across multiple languages. Calabash has a list of libraries that help a test-code to technically interact with the hybrid and native apps. The latest version of Calabash is available in the market is 0.9.22
(3) Selendroid: It’s Also a test automation framework that drives off the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps) and the mobile web.
(1) What are the tips to select the best Mobile Application Tool?Conclusion.
There is no doubt that it is very critical considering that today’s world has undoubtedly become mobile-first with an exponential increase in the usage of connected devices.
So in order to achieve the experience that users actually want while using any mobile application. Following things we have to keep in mind like usability testing, performance testing, Acceptance testing , Functional and non functional scenarios should be very well covered at the time of testing any mobile application.
I hope you enjoyed my blog.
In the end:
“Software testers do not make software; they only make them better.” — Anonymous.
#happy Testing #MakeTestingEasy #MobileApplicationTesting #Testing.
Author: Gandharv Madan
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