Mobile application testing companies have come up with various solutions to create effective and reliable mobile applications. Challenges that testers face are growing due to the continuously growing type and number networks, devices, and operating systems. The most important point to note down is the difference in user skills. Mobile app developers are finding solutions to meet these challenges and deliver a high performance so that their application can get five-star ratings.
When testers carry out testing on mobile applications, following are the best practices that ensure that an app is reliable:
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Devising a Strategy
Testers should devise a proper strategy before beginning a test. This strategy must clearly list down guidelines for performing tests. This helps testers in following step-by-step tests that ensure nothing is left unattended.
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Performing Tests on Real Devices
Although, testers use emulators and simulators while testing applications in the early stages of development, but testing should be done on real devices as well. This helps in achieving realistic results and getting a better understanding of the app and its usability.
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Testing Often at Early Stages
It is important to test an application as soon as it has reached a logical stage of development. It helps testers in identifying issues and saving the cost of fixing petty bugs and errors. Moreover, testers can utilize tracked test cycle results for introducing further improvements in the app.
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Setting Device and OS Preferences
It is not possible to test on all devices, networks, and Operating System (OS) combinations. Testers must identify the devices and OS that the application under test will be able to cater to and then carry out tests on them.
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Automation Testing
Testers should save their time by using automation testing because it has a higher ROI. On the other hand, they must also require to carry out periodic maintenance of the automation test suite.
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Performance and Security Testing
With the help of performance and security testing, testers can easily make their app robust and prevent it from any glitches to the end users. They can also check the app from all aspects particularly with reference to third party and open source software packages.
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Testing Battery Consumption and Interoperability
Testers should ensure that they check how much battery the app consumes. Due to the high consumption of the battery, most of the users delete applications. Thus, it is important to check how the app adjusts when there is variation in the network strength.
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Global Availability of Application
The application can be appealing worldwide if it is adaptable to different geographies. Testers should ensure that they support various languages and currencies so that the users can make purchases easily.
If an application is slow or crashes too frequently, then it will not be able to remain in the market for too long. Testers should be vigilant in picking their tools and strategy so that they can make their applications successfully accepted worldwide. Mobile application testing companies ensure that they follow the above-mentioned strategies in order to provide excellent testing services for any kind of mobile applications.
Author Bio
Ray Parker is a senior marketing consultant with a knack for writing about the latest news in tech, quality assurance, software development, and travel. With a decade of experience working in the tech industry, ray now dabbles out of his New York office.
