Once again, we are announcing a new tutorial series on the Mobile Testing Tutorial series. You will learn challenges and solutions on this testing, how to define the Testing Strategy for Mobile Application testing, what are the different types of testing perform on mobile devices, an overview of Automation testing tools for mobile and many more.

We have created this tutorial series to learn basic and advance concepts of Mobile application Testing. We are going to cover the following topics in this tutorial series. For your convenience below we have listed all tutorials on this page.

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Mobile Testing Tutorial

Tutorial 1. Mobile Application Testing Strategy

Tutorial 2. Introduction to Mobile Application Testing

Tutorial 3. Mobile Testing Challenges and Solutions

Tutorial 4. Types of Mobile App Testing

Tutorial 5. Top 5 Automation Tools to Test Android Applications

Tutorial 6. Beginning guide of iOS testing

Tutorial 7. Real Device Vs. Emulator Testing

Tutorial 8. Overview of mobile Automation APPIUM

Tutorial 9. Overview of mobile Automation Selendroid

Tutorial 10. Overview of mobile Automation Calabash

Tutorial 11. Overview of mobile Automation IOS-Driver

This Tutorial series is simple and easy to understand and to a better understanding, we recommend going through sequentially.

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Tutorial 1. Mobile Application Testing Strategies

In recent years, the mobile market has come with an increasing number of mobile devices, smartphones, tablets, and many other mobile applications. It has become a primary resource of communication for business owners, consumers, and clients.

The increasing number of mobile app businesses is totally into consumer’s hands; consumers decide which mobile application to rock or which to throughout.

Many applications come in the market; application failure and success totally depend on consumers like and dislike. However, the big question arises – What all things can make a mobile app appealing to influence consumer behaviors and make them connected with your brand and products?

The hidden secret of successful mobile app is its strong mobile app development strategy. A strong strategy becomes a key component of app development and decides whether the mobile app is going to meet customer expectations and business goals or not.

Mobile application testing is a gateway to test the quality of a mobile app before reaching their target audience and app stores.

1#. Selection of Device Model

Choosing a mobile device to test a mobile application is the most leading thought, before initializing the mobile app testing process. It’s a very difficult decision because the mobile you choose for testing an app will be represented to millions and billions of customers.

Various things to be considered before selecting the mobile device for testing,

• OS Version– Testing of a mobile app should be done on all major versions of the mobile OS.

• Screen Resolution– Although, users play with different screen resolutions while using the app, testing should be done on various screen resolutions.
• Compatibility Factor– A mobile application may behave in a different manner on a smartphone, tablet, and any other mobile device, so the mobile application should be tested on all devices with which it is compatible.

While choosing the device model, if necessary, memory size, connectivity, etc         can also be taken into account.

2#. Beta Testing process

The beta testing process is an excellent and very effective method of mobile app testing. This process meets you to real-world testers, developers, real devices, real communicating network, and extensive geographic exposure.

By implementing beta testing on the mobile app, testing facilitates these many things,

• Network density
• How well the particular app is behaving on specific devices
• Networking of real-world users with the app
• How well other equipment related to the particular device behaves.
• Compatibility of the device with multiple networks (Wi-Fi, 4G, 3G, etc.)

3#. Cloud Mobile App Testing process

Cloud testing is another helpful selection to test mobile applications where it delivers a web-based testing environment to deploy, test, and manage the mobile application. One of the biggest benefits, it reduces the project cost too.

Let’s see, what all benefits users get by using his testing process,

• Although, Cloud testing provides synchronized and pre-configured test environments; very capable in reducing defects associated with mistakenly designed test environments to improve the quality of application to a great amount.
• By using this testing process, you no need to invest in any other advance testing tools, various types of configurations, licensing, and testing resources. It saves the testing business from setting up an on-premise test environment which is time-consuming and causes the project delays. Moreover, cloud testing process reduces the cost, time, and increases the testing efficiency.
• It is much more capable of solving the problem of the complex, dynamic, and dissimilar app in an in-house environment.
• A cloud-based testing process delivers real-time testing results where defects are analyzed while running the test.

4#. Network Connectivity

All mobile applications deliver rich functionality on outstanding network connectivity. So, to get the real result, it is necessary to test the mobile application of a supported network environment.

Various network imitation tools are accessible to test mobile apps which offer a great assessment to the testing activities. These tools test mobile applications in different network speeds, bandwidths variations, etc. In addition to testing the app in a full internet connectivity environment, cloud computing keeps other factors in the account during testing like; testing in limited connectivity, high speed, without connectivity, and metered connectivity.

So, to make a mobile app successful in the various network environments, it is necessary that the mobile apps should perform consistently on the various network environments.

5#. Manual Vs Automated Testing

Automation testing is really helpful and effective while doing regression testing (repeating test procedure again and again) and testing while developing and updating an application.

An effective automation testing tool is costly when you purchase it the first time, but how much it returns is more than its cost. Automation testing is really helpful in the case of regression testing.

But, all applications and their functionality can’t be tested by automation tools. For those applications and their functionality, the manual testing process is suitable to test the mobile application effectively. Let’s see in which scenarios we can use automation tools,

• When an application grows and develops frequently.
• When the frequency level of regression testing is high
• When an application carries the maximum number of functionality and test cases.
• To confirm application compatibility with new OS version
• Ensure backward compatibility when the application is promoted

Conclusion:

To make the mobile application successful, we can’t ignore the importance of mobile application testing strategy, but it is uncertain that a good strategy can deliver quality mobile app and can increase the performance of the mobile application. With a good testing strategy, good target devices and testing methodologies should be there. In the next Mobile Testing Tutorial series, we are going to see “Introduction to Mobile Application Testing“. If you like this article then please share with your friends and colleagues and stay tuned for the next article in this Tutorial series.

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