Types of Mobile App Testing
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Types of mobile app testing include functional testing, performance testing, memory leakage testing, interrupt testing, usability testing, installation testing, operational testing, and security testing. Functional testing ensures the app works as intended, while performance testing checks how the app handles various mobile challenges. Memory leakage testing checks for optimized memory usage and interrupt testing confirms the app can handle interruptions. Usability, installation, operational, and security testing round out the testing types.
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Types of Mobile App Testing
- 1. Types of Mobile App Testing As how life is becoming faster, technologies are also becoming wider, faster and enriched. In this fast growing life, everyone wants to adept mobile phones that can resolve the purpose of mobile and laptop both. Most of the mobile phones are enriched with advanced applications & features that are much more capable in resolving all purpose of the users need. Those applications are tested by many different type of testing methodologies. Let’s see, which all testing process are involved in testing mobile application. Functional Testing Functional testing performs on the functional behavior of the application to ensures that the application is working as per the requirements. Mostly, testing performs on the user interface and call flows of the application. As like other UI applications mobile applications also require lots of human consideration. If, functional testing performs on mobile devices manually, not automatically, it is going to be extremely complex, exhaustive and time-consuming task due to various mobile-specific challenges like; various mobile devices, mobile operating systems, and functions & applications involve with mobile devices. Functional testing automation process also
- 2. requires lots of human resources, money, and time then too testers are ready to automate the testing process by using many tools due to its strong market value and user demand. Teams can then combine automated tests with selected manual test scenarios to balance the coverage and efficiency of the functional testing. To test some functionalities of the application tester go for manual testing process, later on tester combines manual testing and automation testing for better result. Performance Testing The testing process is carried out by tester to test the performance and actions of the applications that pass through various mobile device challenges like; low battery power due to heavy battery uses, network out of coverage area/poor bandwidth/changing internet connection mode (2G, 3G, or WiFi)/changing broadband connection (Airtel, Relience or Tata Docomo), transferring heavy file, less memory, concurrent approach to the application’s server by various users, etc. Application’s server and client both strongly affect the performance of the mobile application, so testers perform testing on both side of the application. Memory Leakage Testing Memory leakage is one of the bad issues of the mobile application that directly affect on performance of the mobile devices. Due to memory leakage, process might slow down while transferring the file or in-between accessing any application mobile device might switch off automatically. Thus, Mobile devices come with limited memory as compare to computer system, and by default, most of the mobile OS stop applications those are using extreme memory for processing; memory leakage testing becomes essential to check the performance of the mobile applications to ensure that each application of the mobile device is using optimized memory for processing. Interrupt Testing Interrupt testing is a process of testing a mobile application that functions may get interrupted while using the application. Those interruptions can be; incoming and outgoing SMS/MMS/calls, incoming notifications, battery/cable insertion and removal for better uses, network outage and recovery, switch off/switch on of the media player and other connecting devices, Low memory warning,anddevice powercycle(like;low batterynotification). An application should be capable to hold these interruptions by going into a suspended state and restarting afterwards. Usability testing
- 3. Usabilitytestingisusedtotestthe mobile applicationsintermsof usability,flexibility,andfriendliness. The testingprocessmakessure thatthe mobile appisnow easyto use andoffersa suitable user experience tothe customers. Installation testing Mobile devices hold two types of applications; the one which automatically comes with mobile OS (while installing OS, it automatically get installed), and another one you have to install specially from the store to use the particular application. Installation testing is used to test the particular application is installing, uninstalling, and updating properly without any interruption (user is smoothly and flexibly installing the application). Operational testing Any mobile OS and desktop OS provides in-built back-up and recovery operational functions that save or recover all files or doc of mobile devices or applications that had been lost due to some reason. Operational testing is used to test that the particular back-up and recovery process is working properly and responding as per the requirement. Security Testing The purpose of securitytesting totestthe application’sdataandnetworksecuritytocheck the application’sdataandnetworksecurityisrespondingasperthe given requirement/guideline. Conclusion All above testing methodologies prove that users can trust on applications that come with mobile devices, all applications are completely tested with many testing methodologies. But, be careful before using applications on mobile devices, if mobile applications involve internet connection then make sure that the device is already carrying antivirus. If, you don’t have antivirus on your device then it won’t be a fault of the applications installed on the mobile device; it is just a fault on you mobile system.