As a beginner in mobile testing, I would like to share all my learnings in this blog.
Before we begin testing a mobile application, let us have an overview of the type of mobile applications present.
There are basically three types of mobile applciation, namely-native,web and hybrid.Native applications are speciffically designed to run on device operating system.
While web applications get the resource from the internet directly each time we run the application and hybrid applications have a native build and they are implemented using web technologies.
A tester needs to be aware of these things and think about test objectives, test approach, test design, and test execution specific to the type of application being tested.
Development of applications for mobile devices is a rapidly growing process.
The mobile users like iphone,ipad,android,windows phone 7, all these create a never ending demand for more and more applications.
Thus the user wants the mobile applications to be easy and faster, one small bug in the application can result in product dissatisfaction,losing the customer and hence monetary loss.
It is therefore important to prepare a proper strategy which is very much mobile specific, as there is much difference in testing a web application and a mobile application.
Below mentioned are some areas that are very much mobile specific, and can be considered as an initiate to mobile testing.
1.User Interface Testing.
2.External Factors Testing.
3.Stress Testing.
4.Security Testing.
Apart from this we have the functional and integration testing, which are basically same as we test any other application, very much requirement specific.
In my next few blogs I will be explaining each of these strategies in detail as I explore them more.
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