iPhone,iPad,Tablet and Mobile Application Testing

Mobile Application Testing

In the present era mobile is widely used in the word. Mobile is the necessary part of daily life in the present scenario. We can’t think our life without mobile.

If you have any business, or you want to the take your business to the common customer, mobile is the bay way to reach door step to the most of the customer.

If, you are building the mobile application or mobile compatible website then application should work perfectly .There are many platform and browser available in the market. Your website or application should be working perfectly for all browser or platform. If it is not working in any specific browser or platform, you may lose thousand of potential customer.

Type of Mobile Devices

   1)   iPhone

   2)   iPad

   3)   Android

   4)   Tablet

   5)   iPod

There are many type of mobile application available in market that needs testing

1 Mobile social networking App

2 M-Commerce app

3 Mobile hardware related app like Camera App, Mobile Theme App

4 Mobile Games

5 Mobile Website

6 Mobile Native app

Why Testing required for mobile app:

Now a day’s mobile is a multi tasking device. At a time we are doing lots of work in the mobile like: when we are surfing net ,In between we get a call and SMS.

At present smart phone does not have enough ram for handling the entire thing at same time due to which your mobile may hang or your application may crash. The crash of the application is pathetic for the end user. As a result user will not be interested in using your application or website.

To prevent such situation, Testing is necessary part of any application either mobile desktop or website.

In the mobile so many things needs to resolve before releasing the App or website.

Now a day’s mobile application is not a small development task. Proper testing is necessary and app should be passing from different type of testing.

Type of Testing for mobile Application

1 Functional Testing- Functional testing ensures that the application is working as per the requirements. Most of the test conducted for this is driven by the user interface and call flows. Its application should be able to handle these interruptions by going into a suspended state and resuming afterwards.

2. Network carriers Testing- If your application is related to the mobile network provider of location wise. It should be tested well in all geographic location with multiple service provider. In this testing is performed to find out any glitches when a mobile application uses voice and/or data connection to perform some functions.

3. Performance Testing- In this testing we will check the how much me memory is consume by the application during using the app. Also check the  behavior of the application under certain conditions such as low battery, bad network coverage, low available memory, simultaneous access to application’s by multiple user.

4. Memory Leakage Testing- Memory leakage happens when a computer program or application is unable to manage the memory it is allocated resulting in poor performance of the application and the overall slowdown of the system. As mobile devices have significant constraints of available memory, memory leakage testing is crucial for the proper functioning of an application.

6. Compatibility testing- In the compatibility testing, we will test the application into the different browser or platform available into the market. In this testing verifies that the installation process goes smoothly without the user having to face any difficulty. This testing process covers installation, updating and uninstalling of an application.

All the APP or website should be backward or forward compatible of different version of browser or platform