Smart Tips to Boost Mobile Testing Environment!

Nitesh Gupta
A3logics
Published in
3 min readJun 15, 2017

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Every day, new mobile apps are rolled out by businesses. As per the statistics, Google App Store had an overwhelming 2 million apps while the global mobile devices and connections touched nearly 8 million. Thus, there is no doubt that mobility has become one of the top most priorities for enterprises than ever before.

Following a quality and standard mobile app development approach is the real groundwork for any thriving mobile app. No doubt, your testing efforts will be the determining step towards either a roaring success or a howling failure of your product. So, in order to provide users a great user-experience, you need to make sure that the app delivers the best testing results and maintains a good balance between cost, quality, and time-to-market. And for this, you must incorporate latest cutting-edge testing practices in order to give your users a smooth experience.

Here are the few smart tips that will help you implement the best performance and functional testing environment:

Monitor App Usage Patterns:

The User Pattern: You can now easily check and track the app usage patterns. By analyzing them, testers can easily determine what users mainly look for and what major challenges they face while using the app. These may include most visited screens, data loading time, the section that makes the app slow, performance and appearance of website on different devices and much more. This will help you proactively devise and implement corrective measures to eliminate the setbacks and make app more user-friendly.

Adopt Multi-Scenario Testing Approach:

Since your app will work on different platforms and devices across different technologies and networks, you need to test its functionality and performance inside-out. This can be best achieved by taking assistance from testing experts who can apply different scenarios and test cases. Moreover, some cloud-based mobile testing labs can also be taken into use to ensure best performance.

Use Performance Testing For Business Intelligence:

Performance scripts and load testing tools generate tons of data that can be utilized for business intelligence. The product issues and problems can be easily determined and answered with the help of the useful data. The data can further be used to formulate new strategies that may help you improve productivity as well as ROI.

Continuous Testing & Continuous Integration is the Key:

For complete assurance on functionality and performance, continuous testing is a correct approach. To enhance the performance, robustness and scalability of the app, make sure that you follow the CT and CI approach to test and integrate the app again and again so that the errors can be eliminated to the maximum.

To Conclude:

Major reasons for any app failure include as frequent crashes, poor performance, and excessive battery usage. Thus, in order to be successful in the app market and make the user-experience extraordinary for users, businesses need to ensure that the apps are tested using the best of technologies and testing practices in a well-managed testing environment. Above mentioned quick tips can help you make your app a successful one!

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Nitesh Gupta
A3logics

ISTQB & HP QTP/QC Certified Quality Assurance & Testing specialist with expertise in varied domains @a3logics.