The Inevitable Need For Mobile App Quality Assurance

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The Inevitable Need For Mobile App Quality
Assurance
we highlight the main challenges with mobile app
development and how we can address them through
QA testing.
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The rapid increase in the number of mobile apps
has brought a substantial rise in competition
when it comes to mobile app development.
According to Statistica, there were more than 6.5
million apps on Google Play and Apple App Store
as of May 2018. Considering these huge numbers,
one can say that there is a dedicated mobile app
for almost every users needs. Consequently, if
you plan to develop and launch a mobile app, you
have to ensure that its going to be engaging and
user-friendly, if not unique. A successful mobile
app development strategy must focus on delivering
great user experiences across devices. Quality
assurance services ensure that a mobile app
performs at its peak efficiency with minimal
disruptions on all quality parameters. We,
at Oodles, provide on-demand quality assurance
services to deliver high-quality mobile app
development experiences to clients. Our QA
engineers use agile testing methodologies and
advanced tools to ensure that your app performs
seamlessly across devices. Based on our past
experiences, we highlight the main challenges
with mobile app development and how we can
address them through QA testing.
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Common Quality Issues In Mobile App Development
Performance Issues Performance issues are often
linked with the scalability of a mobile app. In
many cases, the app performs consistently well
for a limited number of users. However, as the
userbase increases, the app performance
depreciates, resulting in bad user experiences.
Usability Issues These issues are reported
generally when the user faces difficulties with
the app interface. If some part of the app is not
accessible for any reason, it negatively impacts
on the overall user experience. Usability issues
occur due to inefficacious QA software testing
and the QA engineers must perform usability tests
to avoid these instances. Functionality
Issues Functionality issues are reported when
several anomalies are detected in the app
functionality, causing disruptions in the
navigation flow. If a mobile app lacks a
functional user interface, users will find it
difficult to perform basic functions like
signup/login, messaging, and app updates.
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Common Quality Issues In Mobile App Development
Security Vulnerabilities Security flaws may prove
detrimental for the app users as they put the
user data and privacy at stake. App security
issues are generally associated with user
authentication, data storage, and transfers
(unencrypted). Agile QA Testing Approach To
Overcome Quality Issues At Oodles Technologies,
we follow a step-by-step QA software testing
strategy to proactively detect and resolve
various types of app issues. Below are the tests
we perform typically on a mobile app Basic
Functionality Test / Smoke Test We usually start
with a smoke test that includes a basic check-up
of the apps functionality. It is to ensure that
every button or menu works perfectly across
multiple app screens. A smoke test is critical to
ensure that all the basic functionalities of the
app are finely-tuned to meet the users
expectations. The functionality tests also enable
QA engineers to identify potential points of
failure to avoid instances of downtime and app
crashes.
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Common Quality Issues In Mobile App Development
Code Review and Analysis Code review is an
essential part of the software development
lifecycle that may reveal several software
glitches and potential points of failure. It is
always wise to get your code peer-reviewed before
pushing it further. However, we recommend
performing code reviews after successfully
conducting the basic functionality test. It saves
you from the additional burden of bug detection
as the entire process is granularized. Unit
Testing Unit testing enables QA engineers to test
individual units or components of a mobile app.
It is to ensure that every part of the app is
fully functional and performs seamlessly across
devices. Unit testing is usually followed by
three other types of quality tests
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Common Quality Issues In Mobile App Development

• Integration Testing Individual units are
  combined and tested together rather than testing
  each unit separately.
• System Testing System tests are performed after
  unit testing and integration testing to ensure
  that the app works smoothly with all components
  combined.
• Acceptance Testing Acceptance tests are
  performed to evaluate an apps acceptance level
  to ensure that it is compliant with the clients
  requirements.
• Performance Testing
• Performance testing is a critical part of the
  software development lifecycle that evaluates an
  apps performance, stability, and responsiveness
  under a given workload. It is generally performed
  to identify and resolve issues with the apps
  scalability, responsiveness, load time and
  navigation flow.

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Conducting the aforementioned tests ensures that
all your app components are finely-tuned as per
the requirements. It is advisable to perform as
many tests as you can to ensure that the app
performs seamlessly across the supported devices.
Some other tests that may prove effective to
optimize a mobile app are regression tests,
compatibility tests, GUI tests, and
synchronization tests. Check out our Developer
Insights to learn more about these tests.
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