4 Innovative Testing Strategies For Elevating Mobile App Testing In Business
The increasing use of smartphones and user engagement in mobile applications has led to a boom in the mobile application market. Mobile applications are intensively used for gaming, music, fitness app, social networking, and other purposes. As users now get a variety of choices for their applications, there is increased competition in the market. Therefore, ensuring the application meets the required standards and quality becomes imperative for the organization.
The Growth Of Mobile Applications
The growth of mobile applications has been significant in recent years such as;
1. According to a report by App Annie, global consumer spending on mobile apps reached $111 billion in 2020, a 15% increase from 2019.
2. With over 2.7 million apps available in the Apple App Store and over 3 million apps available in the Google Play Store as of 2021.
3. The mobile app market is expected to be worth over $935 billion by 2023.
4. According to a recent study, 21% of Millennials use apps 50 or more times per day.
However, in this article, we will be discussing four varied Testing strategies for Testing your mobile application such as functionality, performance, security, and various other factors that can add value to your application.
So let’s begin…
What is Mobile Application Testing?
Mobile Application Testing involves testing mobile applications for analyzing mobile applications for the right functionality, usability, visual design, and consistency across multiple mobile devices.
Following are the 4 Mobile Application Testing Strategies that can help improve the quality of mobile applications.
Cross-platform testing
Users today, can access mobile applications from a number of devices and operating systems. This is why it becomes important that organizations build flawless applications that is working fine on all combinations of devices and operating systems. At the initial phases of application development, testing can be done by taking the help of Simulators and Emulators, and once the application is ready it can be Tested on a set of real devices.
Testing for privacy and security
Another important mobile application testing strategy includes testing the application to ensure that users’ data is safe and secure. To do this we need to ensure that there are data regulation policy violations by the application and the tester needs to test for the same. As a Tester, we need to think like a user. If the application is not using users’ data then there is no point in storing this information in the application.
Testing across multiple screen dimensions and specifications
As per various online research data, the total number of mobile phone devices has crossed the mark of 14.9 billion in 2021. These devices are now available with different specifications and dimensions and this is why a Tester needs to test the application across different devices and platforms. While doing so, the tester needs to check for underlying bugs if any are present in the application while testing the application on different screen sizes. An application can behave differently n different screen sizes and so we need to ensure that the customer does not receive any surprise when he opens the application on his device.
Testing for an optimized application
Once your application is tested for functionality, security, and other parameters, you must execute a thorough test for testing your application’s performance. A Tester can check if the application is optimized for performance. Optimizing the size of the application to a possible extent can help users. Also, we need to check if the current network coverage is able to support the application at peak, average and minimum user levels.
Conclusion:
The quality of your mobile application can be a crucial factor in deciding the growth of your business and so it becomes necessary that the application delivers quality results when tested on several parameters. In the article, we saw the need to have an optimized mobile application and test your application for ensuring the privacy and security of customers. Although, traditional testing methods can ensure the basic quality of your application, testing the application for the above parameters can provide you an edge in the business.
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