Key Challenges in Mobile Testing
The constant endeavor of organizations to provide creative solutions to real-world problems has led to the digital space being flooded with mobile apps. Naturally, market competition has created multiple challenges for QA teams when it comes to testing these applications fast, to enable on-time release. While doing so, teams want to ensure that the release is bug-free.
With end-user experience being the topmost priority, let’s explore four major mobile app testing challenges faced by teams.
1. Delivering faster in a competitive landscape
Competition among the tech firms to maintain the edge has brought a whole new set of challenges to the testing world.
QA teams now face the pressure of delivering stable releases in ever-shortening timelines. These strict deadlines might impact the mobile app testing process as it requires considerable requirement planning, designing, development, and extensive testing. As a result, QAs need to be well prepared with the test plan well in advance.
2. Maintaining On-premise device labs
As the market trends evolve with time, organizations need to ensure that their on-premise device labs are upgraded at regular intervals. This is because teams need to ensure that their applications are thoroughly tested and optimized enough for working flawlessly on the latest devices.
Maintaining an on-premise device lab involves activities such as purchasing new mobile devices, updating the software of existing devices, security checks, etc. Maintaining on-premise device labs involves huge investment. Small organizations can not afford such huge expenditure.
3. Insufficient access to multiple mobile devices
Testers need to test their apps on a variety of mobile devices as per the market trends. At times, it is possible that one or more QAs might need access to the same mobile device at once for testing purposes. In such a case, either of them needs to wait for the other teammate to finish their tests. As a result, teams need access to an extensive set of devices to ensure they test their apps comprehensively.
4. Delivering robust apps for seamless user experience
It is obvious that end-user experience plays a critical role in the success of any mobile application. There’s a high probability that a user may find it difficult to access the key features of the app or might face a bug in the key functionality itself.
Flawless user experience always has a direct impact on the business. Given this, teams should leave no stones unturned in ensuring the apps are bug-free.
These were the key challenges in mobile testing that teams face majority of the time. Teams must consider cloud testing for real devices as an alternate solution to address the problems above. This will ensure teams have sufficient resources to perform extensive and thorough testing on real devices.
