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Automated Testing: Mobile Presents Challenges
Automated testing has the potential to save time and money, widen the possible test coverage for an application, improve accuracy, and build a better product. Many businesses are targeting mobile for the applications they build, but mobile presents a number of issues.
Testing apps that target mobile platforms present certain challenges for quality assurance. Native, Web, and Hybrid mobile apps all have separate challenges. The main challenge is the big ‘variety’ across the spectrum of mobile devices: Tools, Operating systems, and Browsers.
- Tools. Testing in different environments may require the use of different tools and coding languages specific to the environment.
- Operating Systems. Users might be running on iOS or a range of Android OS versions. It’s hard to keep up and guarantee that an app can work across the complete spectrum.
- Browsers. The many different browsers and the different versions present challenges.
Then there are network issues with mobile. Connectivity problems or simply not being connected to the internet at all are both valid scenarios that can trip up or freeze an app.
On top of that, a study by CapGemini found that 65 percent of companies building mobile apps say they don’t have the right tools to test.
Shannon Lee, Kobiton solution engineer, said that “there are features constantly being released to keep up with, so there are more tests to write and of course, as I’m alluding to less time to write them. And with that complexity and less time, it becomes hard to deliver stable code. So if you do find that you have time to automate a test case, you want to ensure that if you do it so quickly and you kind of do it haphazardly, it’s not going to be the best stable code. And that kind of proves itself pointless in a sense if you get past false negatives or false positives.”
