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The Best Strategy for Mobile App Testing - 3 Focus Areas for Success

Not testing your mobile application before launching is like not performing your car’s maintenance check before you set out on your family road trip. Testing is important to ensure your app’s quality- for who likes to use an app with umpteen regressions and glitches? A newly launched app with bugs and other issues can hurt not just your business but also your reputation. A test automation strategy and QA testing tools become your essential weapons. Mobile app testing may be time consuming, yet very essential for ensuring that your customers have a positive experience while using your application. Understandably so, you’ve got to ensure from genesis that every experience for every user subscribing to your application is a happy one. Do not expect customers to pose as testers referring you to flaws that they experience. This will surely tick them off. At times, an experienced QA Automation Testing Services provider can also help. Challenges of mobile testing Smartphone applications have increased inexorably in the last decade. With a billion existing apps (and many more being added almost every day), the stiff competition has led to some beautifully designed and executed apps. As a result, users’ expectations of an app experience have reached a new high. To ensure that you meet the bar set by these apps, testing is an inevitable and an extremely crucial part of your app building process. Platforms and software contribute to the difficulty of mobile testing. Unlike PCs that are more or less similar, mobile devices are extensively distinct. The screen size of the device, the mobile carriers of the users, connectivity speed and the OSes are what set the mobile market apart from the traditional devices. Each update of an app means an additional testing cycle. Updates in mobile apps are highly frequent due to the increasing number of apps launched daily. Also, every time a new device or a new version of OS is launched, the app is tested for warrant compatibility. The scope of testing differs for different cycles. Some testing cycles may remain limited to testing the intrinsic features of the app while some require a complete regression and feature test. Thus, a robust test automation strategy becomes the key. Mobile Application Testing Strategy What devices do you want to test for? The devices that your audience uses add a huge challenge to your testing process! Your customers are accessing your apps with hundreds of different devices, not to forget the OSes and their versions. This is reason enough why you should be testing your app’s compatibility for each type of device. You can choose to either test with real devices or emulated devices. Simulators are ideally used in the developmental phase for basic functionality of the app. Testing on physical devices can be done towards the end of the cycle to understand application behavior such as touch response and user experience. Both process have their own pros and cons. while testing with a real devices gives you outputs that is precise to the real devices, they can be expensive. On the other hand you can use simulators as they are cost effective- you can test for multiple devices from a singular platform. However, this may not always return the errors or shortcomings that your user would face. Mobile Networks Another challenge is the connectivity by network providers of your customers. There are more than 400 mobile operators in the world. And these operators support multiple technologies like CDMA, GSM etc. Network operators have their own systems implemented that affect the performance of any app. Not just network operators, their local vendors, too have customized connectivity streamlines. Networks do affect a major aspect of your app’s performance. While testing, you can make use of tools that simulate cellular networks. On location testing can be reserved for specialized applications. Automated Testing With automated mobile testing you can verify application results by automating repetitive test procedures. You can use it to validate whether new features are affecting the performance of your old ones. However, automation requires a significant amount of initial investment. Consider investing in one when you are sure to run multiple test cases and not one-off cases. While automating your scripts, remember to test features that won’t drastically impact the outcome of the app. Also identify the test cases that may be too expensive to automate owing to technical challenges. Knowing which test cases to automate and which ones to exclude out of it, is an important step of this process. Consider automating all features that meet the desired requirements. Key use cases for automation in mobile application testing are – Verifying application compatibility when a new OS version is released and verifying backward compatibility when the application is upgraded. Conclusion The significant challenges and risks involved in mobile application testing can impact production of mobile apps. These risks and challenges can be mitigated by planning and adopting policies that are favorable to your application. The various mobile app testing tools available in market help with testing and also providing a platform to measure security and compatibility compliance. The importance of testing mobile applications before deployment in a live environment must not be overlooked. Automating the process is an alternative that you need to consider. Testing & Automation Expertise by Aziro (formerly MSys Technologies) Mobitaz Software quality assurance and test automation are our major verticals. Aziro (formerly MSys Technologies) has evolved as a leader in providing testing and automation services. Our deep expertise in this domain helped us develop a test automation product for mobile apps – Mobitaz. Aziro (formerly MSys Technologies) provides comprehensive testing and quality assurance services, which include manual testing and test process improvement. Aziro (formerly MSys Technologies) has catered to various testing domains, such as load testing, functional testing, regression testing, user interface testing, etc. Aziro (formerly MSys Technologies) possesses expertise on major mobile platforms, iOS and Android.

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Object Based vs Image Based Identification: An overview

Crucial factors in choosing mobile testing toolsThe object identification technique that is used in the different automation tools offering mobile application testing has proven to be quite a crucial factor in identifying the lucrative choice from amongst the many tools available in the market. Most major tools are based on scripts that are designed to identify objects in the AUT using either the image based identification or native identification technique. While certain tools work using both the aforementioned techniques of object identification concerns of robustness and execution time makes tools based on a single technique of object identification the preferred choice amongst the QA personnel. Upon having ensured that the overall features of the mobile test automation tools are in keeping with the market standards, the final choice tends to be greatly affected by the object identification technique that they utilize.The image based identification techniqueThis technique of object identification is based on the GUI overlay that the application features. This has made the tools featuring this technique the preferred option in instances where the testing processes are required to cover multiple platforms and operating systems. In utilizing the GUI for the identification process, this technique is based on the image processing attributes of the objects in the AUT. Besides, the identification process, in being carried out by means of optical character recognition has ensured that in instances where third party application access is required is compatible with tools that utilize this technique.The drawbacksThe optical character recognition, despite its tendency to increase performance metrics of the device, has proven to be a defining feature in the IBT technique. However, one of the biggest drawbacks in the IBT is its tendency to crash in instances where the process involves dynamic changes in the application. Moreover, tools using IBT for the object identification process tend to take a considerably longer execution time when compared to those using the native identification techniques, owing to its need to process images and to ensure that it remains the same in each instance of recording. Besides, testers not being able to identify the individual steps that are involved in the many complex actions being performed by the Application under Test (AUT) has proven to be a major drawback in this technique.The native identification techniqueThis technique of object identification is based on recognizing the nativity of the objects in the AUT. This nativity recognition process for each individual object in the application is carried out using different attributes that are assigned to the object. This ensures that in cases where one attribute is absent, the other, or a combination of the available attributes is utilized for the recognition process. Some of the attributes that are commonly taken into consideration, for the process of nativity recognition includes the ID, the text or the position assigned to the object. Tools like MTAS, in utilizing the native identification technique and gathering the attributes of the objects in the AUT, have proven to be quite effective in terms of the test execution time involved. Besides, such tools have proven to be quite reliable in instances of an object missing specific data, where the tool is able to recognize the available data and execute the task without any hassles.The drawbacksThe recognition of the individual attributes of the objects involved restricts this technique’s ability to function in test scenarios that require third party application access, which happens to reduce the automation coverage capability of the tools utilizing this technique.Factors to consider in making the choiceIn choosing the tools based on their object identification technique, the QA personnel involved ought to ensure that the tools offer the lowest possible test execution time, and a hassle free test experience, both factors that are crucial in ensuring minimal time to market for the applications being developed.

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