Challenges involved in Mobile testing services

• Posted by Serena Gray February 16, 2023 Filed in Technology #Mobile testing services  #Mobile testing service  #Mobile testing  356 views
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  The global market for the mobile device domain is growing at a steady pace and as per research, there are billions of mobile users around the globe. With such huge demand for mobile devices and applications, it becomes obvious to ensure that the quality of the mobile device and mobile applications are the best in terms of quality, performance, functionality, user experience and scalability. With mobile testing, there will also arise certain testing-related challenges that need to be strategically dealt with by the mobile testing team to derive optimal and feasible testing outcomes. The only criterion required is to clearly understand the underlying challenges and come up with rewarding testing solutions. In this article, you will get to know the challenges that are involved in mobile testing services.

  What is Mobile testing?

  It is a testing method where a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) is tested and thus the quality assurance is thoroughly assessed. The mobile applications contained in smartphones are also tested using a well-defined mobile testing framework. There are professional mobile application testing companies that provide expert mobile testing services.

   

  The following are the challenges involved in mobile testing services:

  1. Conditions of the network: Websites and mobile apps are used on different mobile data networks including edge, 4G, 3G, 2G, LTE and also the Wi-Fi networks. The applications and websites’ performance can get impacted by the speed of network and signal strength. This will in turn affect KPIs like conversion rate and churn rate.

  As people move from one place to another, hence, changes may take place in these network conditions. The application should be able to perform well across different conditions. It is also challenging to simulate a variety of network conditions.

   

  2. The issue with fragmentation: There is a huge diversity in the mobile market. It is similar to the diversity of books found in a huge library. This diversity is obviously because of “choice.” With a plethora of models, devices, manufacturers and OS versions available in the market, the success of the organizations’ websites and apps all comes down to how well they work across different configurations or combinations.

  Mobile Applications should be designed in such a way that they can easily work across different configurations. This is important because an application’s UX or application can differ in various models of the same device but also the different OS versions being used by users. Hence, it becomes significant to test the application across configurations so that the risks associated with fragmentation can be properly covered.

   

  3. The size of the screen: The application’s functionality may be at par with client expectations, but, equally important is the application’s visual richness, which can in turn provide a rich user experience to the users. These requirements can be properly dealt and solved by developers who can analyze the diversity in screen sizes amongst the tablets and smartphones available in the market.

   

  4. The application type: There are different ways to build mobile applications, hence, it also becomes obvious to test the application in different ways. Whether the application is built as a hybrid app, web app or native app, it needs to be scrutinized properly by the team.

   

  5. The features of Geolocation: Geolocation features are used by both applications and websites. There will be a certain level of difficulty in testing these features because it needs to be executed in a specific place. When it comes to sending the QA team across different countries to test performance related features then it can prove to be time-consuming and expensive.

   

  Conclusion: If you are looking forward to implementing mobile testing for your specific project, then do get connected with a professionally acclaimed software testing services company that will provide you with a methodical testing roadmap that is in line with your project specific requirements.