Peculiarities of mobile app testing
The market of mobile apps is rather blooming and profitable in spite of severe competition. These days app stores are overloaded with the most diverse apps. Ones serve to entertain users, others help to solve the most varied business and routine problems and tasks. Still, whatever a goal of an app, it must be of high quality and provide an excellent user experience.
Top software testing companies in Auckland conduct different tests in order to check various aspects of the app running and make sure that it will be well accepted by the end-users. So let’s consider the main challenges and peculiarities of mobile app testing.
Challenges related to mobile app testing
- Consideration of the variety of Android and iOS versions;
- Compared to a PC display, the screen of mobile devices rotates.
- The necessity to test an app on devices with various screen sizes.
- The necessity to verify the app work with various types of Internet connection (2G, 3G. 5G, Wi-Fi).
- The necessity to test app stability on diverse rates of data transfer.
- The necessity is to make sure that an application does not affect direct smartphone functions (e.g. incoming calls).
- Finally, one of the main challenges of mobile app testing is a great variety of mobile devices with their own peculiarities. As long as it is strongly advised to execute testing on real devices and avoid the use of emulators, the stock of your test mobile devices must be indeed extensive in order to make sure that whatever device your user leverage, he will enjoy your app.
- In this context, we recommend you study the market and identify the most widely used models of mobile devices in order to use them for your app testing.
Main peculiarities of mobile app testing
Let us take a closer look at the main aspects of mobile app testing.
Pay attention to the touch interface and screen size:
Tapped in one touch button and icon of appropriate size that can be easily and fast found on the device screen.
Item response rate, a button that has been tapped should get highlighted.
Check app work on different devices:
- Different items are displayed properly on high-expansion screens.
- Smooth and correct procedure of app installation on different mobile devices
- Correct work of various device functions: camera, autofocus, GPS, correct mapping
- Functioning of the retina and non-retina elements
- Check different methods of the app update
- Check whether the previous OS versions support the updates.
- Check whether elements work equally well and without crashes on the new and previous versions.
Check whether helpful toast messages and popups appear:
- Messages during downloading
- Network access error message
- Warning message during an attempt to delete essential data, etc.
Check the app reaction to interruptions:
- Incoming calls or messages
- Battery discharge or removal
- Disconnected network/WiFi
- Charging cable connection
- Memory card removal
Check ad display in an app:
Make sure that the ad is displayed in the right place and does not overlap app UI elements.
Check power consumption:
Check whether an app considerably affects power consumption. It is very important as high power consumption is one of the most common reasons for app removal.
Check compliance with the app store guidelines:
Either iOS or Android provides official recommendations (Android Design Guidelines, Human Interface Guidelines, Mobile OS Guidelines) which define how an app should look like on particular Operating Systems. Moreover, your app will not be released until it is reviewed by the App Store and/or the Google Play Market for compliance with these guidelines.
All in all, whatever application you have - desktop, web, or mobile - top software testing companies in Auckland from our list are able to provide you with the best services.
