There are two types of people in this world, the ones who make things and the ones who break things. Likewise, organizations are. Most businesses start their operations and think of developing mobile apps as a major product for gaining market shares. No doubt app development has many more opportunities for businesses than anything else. Mobile apps bring a pool of revenue gaining opportunities for businesses that can also easily enable a business to face failure if it’s not liked by the user or has some technical errors in it.
Mobile apps are unusual beasts. They should be intuitive in a narrow space, run fast on limited hardware, look good on many different devices, and stand out from the fierce competition. One of the things that can help you get rid of these contradictions is the ruthless quality assurance process. In order to tackle the fierce mobile app competition and to ensure that your mobile app stands out among the market, mobile app testing companies are playing a significant role to carefully evaluate your app before you go live with it. Now it’s your responsibility what measures you should take to ensure the quality of your mobile application.
When testing mobile applications, there are a lot of things to keep in mind. Keeping this in mind we are exposing some of the best-known principles for a successful mobile application. Here are some of them;
Use More Than One Device – Preferably, you must use more than one device for testing a mobile application. Because your apps will not be running on emulators. You should test your application on every device. Since this is not possible, especially in the case of a heterogeneous ecosystem such as Android, you have to plan carefully, prioritize, and cover the largest market share. You want your application to look good, feel good, and perform well on large samples.
You will need to check interface consistency and general backward incompatibility.
Functional Review Of Application – When performing functional tests, you should evaluate whether the application runs successfully under the pre-defined conditions, and consider the possibility that future users may deviate from the routine, breaking these functions and the developer’s weekend.
When testing complicated applications, it is always a good practice to walk through a set of carefully written use cases. There is no need to relearn the app every time, just consult the documentation and update when needed. Your future self will applaud you, and any other testers or project managers trying to understand all these features will also applaud you.
Must Review User Experience – Usability testing is another important foundation of mobile application testing, involving parameters that are difficult to measure or classify. Mobile devices are small and have almost no physical buttons, so applications require extra effort to look and feel pleasant and usable. Ask yourself following important questions;
- Is the application quick and intuitive?
- Navigation is simple or not?
Look Out For The Details – Rushing will always lead you to suffer. And being lazy would lead you to face massive destruction. So its better to stay calm and give attention to each and every detail. Especially ask these following questions;
- Is an important scenario missed?
- Am I just skimming the app or looking closely?
- Can I differentiate between a bug and a feature?
Consider Hardware Along With Software – Nowadays, most applications will communicate with the server and therefore require some form of Internet connection. This is critical and requires thorough testing. On average it is most likely for some of the users to use your application on everything from the excellent fast Wi-Fi to the extremely slow EDGE (the network named so). Some people may launch applications offline; some may sneak into tunnels or basements and lose connectivity; others may be stubborn and continue to connect and disconnect from the Internet. In any case, your application needs to work properly in all situations. If there is no connection, the user should pay attention to the problem. There should be no crashes, and there will never be a loading animation.
Great Success? Implement Automation – For a better testing outcome and if you want to incur minimum efforts then go for any relevant automation testing tool that adheres to your business requirements.
Conclusion
Nothing in this world comes for free. Either it demands heavy financial cost or else requires extra efforts, good planning, a clever strategy, a unique idea (in case of the success of a mobile application). If an organization becomes successful in paying attention to these factors eventually it is more likely to achieve its mobile app success very soon. Just a bit of patience is required.
