Identifying Right Mobile Application Testing Strategy

Today, people are increasingly using smart-phones, tablets and other mobile devices. It led software companies to produce quality mobile applications by performing mobile application testing.  Mobile applications are helping people to drive personal and professional interactions. However, to have a fully functional, high performing, and fully protected mobile application needs highly effective, reliable functional, performance and security testing. Companies also need to ensure that testing covers customer expectations and business objectives. Moreover, mobile applications are used on multiple devices, platforms, and browsers, so testing needs to compatibility aspect as well.  Amidst tight budgets and short deadlines, companies go for in-housing or outsourcing their required testing activities. While outsourcing can provide a company with access to an extensive pool of required talent and testing tools; however, it might be difficult to find right outsourcing partners who can adhere to scheduled deliverables.

 Unlike in-house testing which might fall short of the right tools, guidelines, industry standards, best practices, efficient methods, and resources; outsourcing will help a company to reduce costs. It will enable a company to focus on the core activity, spending more time in marketing campaigns, customer services, and more. And also approaching a Cloud-based mobile application testing strategy would be very beneficial in terms of time, cost and effort. It provides a web-based mobile testing environment where applications can be deployed, tested, and managed. Besides providing on-demand access to the diversity of mobile devices, platforms, browsers with required type of testing, cloud testing environment helps cut down the project costs while improving ROI. One thing to remember, approaching Manual testing processes can be tedious, error prone and time consuming in the proliferation of devices, carriers and platforms.

Furthermore, Manual testing never can be replaced with automation testing, so companies need to identify right testing strategy for their multiple mobile applications. One thing to remember, approaching Manual testing processes can be tedious, error prone and time consuming in the proliferation of devices, carriers and platforms. However, Manual testing never be replaced by automation testing, so companies need to identify right testing strategy for their multiple mobile applications. However, Testing under real conditions for real end user experience is important and it’s a business imperative. However, Testing under real conditions for real end user experience is important and it’s a business imperative as well.