Top 4 Mobile Application Development Trends and How it is Impacting Application Testing
The number of mobile applications downloaded globally in 2021 stood at around 230 billion and is projected to reach above 275 billion in 2023, as per Statista.com. Another popular website techcrunch.com reported that mobile users are spending around 4–5 hours per day on their mobile applications. These statistics are enough to highlight the growing importance of mobile applications for users. The stats also reflect that users want more and better mobile applications and so the application development industry is molding itself to cater to the rising demands of customers. However, the industry needs to build quality applications that can make a difference, or else users would not hesitate to abandon the application after an unsatisfactory experience.
To highlight the changing industry trends and challenges faced in mobile applications testing, in this article, we will be discussing four mobile app development trends and how it is affecting the application testing methods in the industry.
So let’s begin
- Speedy application development will lead to accelerated testing
With the need to build mobile applications at a faster rate, testing activity will not be left behind. Apart from factors like DevOps integration and the use of cloud infrastructure, there will be other accelerating factors like the use of a 5G network, codeless development platform, and artificial intelligence that will change the speed of application development and testing activity will be in line with the development process. Many companies are now offering such development and testing solutions assuring faster execution.
2. Use of Cloud platforms in application development and testing
More and more IT teams are now using cloud platforms to help address the increasing demand for new business applications on a daily basis. Cloud platforms are effective in accelerated product development as it removes infrastructure distractions and enables greater efficiency in the development stack. This is also affecting the testing methods and although the testing strategies would remain the same, there will be a huge intervention of cloud platforms in the testing process. Cloud testing platforms offer a faster, more scalable, and more secure testing solution and can be accessed anytime anywhere.
3. Building secure and accessible applications
Users are now more aware of security and accessibility and so applications are developed keeping the security and accessibility standards in mind. Secure and accessible applications can help in increasing the user base and in providing a great user experience and so applications will have to be tested using these standards.
4. Newer technology integration
As more and more services are being offered through mobile applications, modern applications are now developed to handle voice, chatbots, immersive augmented reality, virtual reality, improved live-streaming, and various other advanced features. Designing a Test methodology to test these newly added features needs an advanced approach as the applications need to be tested for interoperability, interactivity, and usability.
Conclusion:
While there has been a number of challenges in the mobile application development industry, there is an increased number of applications in the market all over the world. An unprecedented number of users are downloading and using mobile applications on a daily basis. In the above article, we saw the different trends in mobile application development and how it is affecting application testing methods.
Keeping a track of changes in the industry and their impact on the testing process can be challenging and this can be addressed by building a Testing Center of Excellence at your organization. Testrig Technologies is a leading Mobile app Testing company and we have a team of over 100 QA experts who are a part of the Testing Center of Excellence which helps us in helping our clients provide the required and accurate solutions for their QA needs. Our Mobile App Automation testing services comprise functional, compatibility, usability, performance, and security testing of mobile applications.
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