What Is Mobile Testing? Strategies for App Testing on Devices

The Growing Significance of Mobile Testing

Understanding and applying the right strategy and tools for mobile testing is increasingly vital. This section provides an overview of mobile testing, offering essential knowledge to master this area.

Defining Mobile Testing

Mobile testing of applications involves assessing mobile apps for their functionality, usability, and consistency. This can be conducted manually or via automated processes on mobile devices.

The Necessity of Mobile App Testing

Testing mobile apps is crucial for numerous reasons. Mobile apps play a key role in business operations, and ensuring their proper functionality through rigorous testing is essential.

Mobile Testing Landscape in 2024

Smartphones have become a fundamental part of daily life by 2024, with 6.85 billion global users making up 86% of the world's population. As a result, mobile testing is critical in development plans for maintaining competitiveness by guaranteeing app and smartphone security, stability, and usability. This part also goes over updating test coverage for mobile app success.

Different Types of Mobile Testing

Mobile device testing encompasses three primary categories:

Functionality: This includes testing business flows, user interface aspects, and cross-platform compatibility.

Real Environment Conditions: Tests in this category cover network conditions, interruptions (like calls, texts), background and foreground operations, and gestures.

Non-Functional Aspects: This involves security, accessibility, performance, availability, and API testing.

The section also highlights various approaches to these testing types, including manual, automated, and continuous testing.

Choosing the Right Devices for Testing

Determining the optimal combination of devices for testing depends on the user base, location, and risk tolerance. This part provides guidance on balancing data and analysis, mapping coverage to the test pipeline, and optimizing lab configuration.

Distinguishing Mobile and Web Testing

Mobile app testing is more complex due to a larger user base and a broader range of devices, as compared to web testing. The section elaborates on the nuances and complexities of testing mobile apps.

Enhancing Device Testing with Perfecto

Perfecto offers comprehensive solutions for mobile test planning, accommodating all app types and testing varieties. It provides access to real devices and emulators/simulators in the Perfecto Cloud, along with integration with various open-source test automation frameworks. This section invites readers to experience Perfecto’s offerings for effective, maintenance-free testing, secure and scalable test cloud, and extensive test coverage.