Mobile technologies are booming, and that’s a good thing! The amount of mobile users is growing every day and, consequently, the number of mobile devices and platforms increases. Nowadays people can’t go without various applications and use them every possible minute for different reasons.
That brings the following question – How can we make sure that our mobile app works correctly and meets our requirements? The answer is simple – Mobile Application Testing Services.
Mobile testing as a service is performed on the mobile devices and includes testing of the mobile application updates, usability testing, multiplatform testing and testing the app capability to run on different devices. Mobile app testing requires a particular set of tools and technologies.
Types of Mobile Testing
There are two kinds of testing that take place on mobile devices:
- Hardware testing.
- Software or application testing.
Significance of Mobile Application Testing
Testing applications on mobile devices are more challenging than testing web apps on desktop due to:
- Different range of mobile devices.
- Wide varieties of mobile devices.
- Different mobile operating systems.
- Different versions of the operation system.
- Different mobile network operators.
- Frequent updates – with each update a new testing cycle is recommended to make sure no application functionality is impacted.
Mobile application testing is crucial because a product with bugs is never appreciated. It often results in monetary losses, legal issue, and irreparable brand image damage. When testing web-application, that is optimized for mobile devices, testers take into account its features and validate the following key moments:
- Support for different screen resolutions and the app performance in various modes – landscape and portrait;
- support of touch-interface;
- the responsiveness of all app elements;
- the correctness of a displayed content – size and quality of the images;
- graphical user interface;
- the correctness of localization;
- the stability of the application when the increased workload;
- the correctness of application performance when using Wi-Fi/GPRS.
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