Mobile Testing

If you are performing testing on a Mobile App, you perform all the tests that you would ideally perform on the web application. However, there are few more factors that you may want to perform on your Mobile App.

Emulators are used during the initial stages of an apps development and later with software testing real devices are used. I have concluded that the use of real world devices are necessary for maintaining strong standards and quality assurance.

1.       Interrupts – How the app behaves when there is a call/text/notification from other apps.

2.       Access points – How your application behaves when it moves from one internet access point to another when it is connected on WiFi.

3.       Signal – How your application behaves when you switch from WiFi to mobile data, mobile data to WiFi, different WiFi connections.

4.       Push Notification – How your App behaves with push notifications.

5.       GPS – If you have a GPS feature on your App, you may want to check if the App polls GPS with different internet source.

6.       Screen orientation – Changing the screen orientation.

7.       Different versions of iOS and Android compatibility tests.

8.       Sound tests from the App.

9.       Different screen size tests.

10.    Performance/ responsiveness of the App.

11.    Most mobile apps will have web version. You may have to check the integrity of the data on both.