{"id":2536,"date":"2016-02-16T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T09:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallop.net\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2022-07-28T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T10:16:00","slug":"how-to-overcome-4-top-challenges-of-mobile-application-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/how-to-overcome-4-top-challenges-of-mobile-application-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Top Challenges of Mobile Application Testing & How to Overcome Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today, every day, thousands of new apps are uploaded. With apps integration now possible into cars, wearable tech and home appliances, people download them by billions on their smart devices – tablets, smartphones, vehicles, watches, kitchen appliances, etc. \u2013 only to move on to download an alternative if the app is not up to their standards or doesn\u2019t fulfil their needs. This increasing intolerance towards below-par performance, device compatibility issues, functional defects, or poor user experience makes mobile testing of apps a business critical function.<\/p>\n
The need to launch the perfect app, and then to continuously keep on upgrading it to match the wants of consumers is creating a tremendous, continuous pressure on the professionals responsible for quality and testing \u2013 not to forget the developers. The testers need to stay upskilled to be able to manage the ever expanding number of configurations, OSs, devices, OSs, user interfaces, etc., QA departments are trying to catch-up with innovative methodologies like Agile and DevOps, along with testing apps properly before releasing them. Add this to the challenge of insufficient and inefficient mobile testing tools that do not allow testing apps to the maximum levels.<\/p>\n
As per the Cap Gemini Quality Report (Mobile Testing), almost 18% companies state lack of time to test mobile apps, 65% say they do not have the right tools, and 52% cite lack of devices as reasons for not performing mobile testing. To overcome some of these challenges of mobile testing, per the World Quality Report 2015-16, 35% of the QA and Testing Budget for new development is being spent on mobile and front office (customer channel) solutions.<\/p>\n
4 Mobile Testing Challenges and Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n Most organizations are neither ready, nor able to manage the ever growing complicated web of multiple OSs, devices, platforms, or services. Even if they are, they have to face the challenges of:<\/p>\n The following solutions may be useful in solving the issue:<\/p>\n While a provision of testing early and testing often sounds gratifying, and may also enhance usability, testing the apps on a secure and private cloud may help provide the required access to testing teams which will ensure avoidance of data breaches. The above activities will identify security issues quicker and fixing them before production will not only save from any potential harm, but also help the organization save a lot of costs as a bug fixed before production saves about 20 times cost than that after production.<\/p>\n While Smart phone testing challenges may be many and overwhelming, but there\u2019s nothing that resolves a challenge faster than the correct partner. \u00a0Cigniti’s state-of-the-art mobile test lab uses the latest and best in mobile testing<\/a> to bring you better quality and quicker time-to-market. Reach out<\/a> to us today and we will be happy to help you with right mobile app testing strategy.<\/p>\n\n
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\nBecause all apps face regular mobile testing challenges, the simplest solution to avoid the additional complexity (that will arise due to multiple app architectures) is to eliminate one or both of the alternatives.<\/li>\n
\nA lot of organizations try using device emulators along with an operator\u2019s web or test proxy to reduce\/avoid airtime charges along with an instrumented test stack. Though Cloud-based network test services may prove to be the best testing scenario, most of them have to shell out remote carrier coverage. While performing testing using a WiFi Network, the following aspects can also be checked:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
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