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Mobile application testing is 1 type of mobile testing. For more information, refer Mobile testing in series of Mobile testing tutorial

1. Mobile application categories

For mobile applications, it can be classified into three categories:

・Type 1: Native apps – apps written specifically for a platform like iOS, Android, or Windows Phone in their respective languages.

・Type 2: Web application (Web App) – web-based application, mobile device users will use different browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari to access the web server to use, such as m.facebook.com.

・Type 3: Hybrid App – a combination of native application and web application, can be run both offline and online and often uses web-making techniques such as HTML5, CSS.

In view of this

・ Native applications can only run on a certain operating system while mobile web applications can run on all mobile browsers that support HTML and Javascript.

・The native application is written in platforms like the SDK while the mobile web application is written with web technologies like HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, JAVA, and PHP.

・ For a native application, it is necessary to install but with mobile web applications, there is no need to install.

・ The original application can be updated from the app store while the mobile web application is updated centrally.

・ The original application may work without an Internet connection, but for mobile web applications, an Internet connection is always required.

・ Native apps work faster when compared to mobile web apps.

2. Some special test cases for testing mobile applications:

・Battery consumption: It is important to track the battery drain when running applications on mobile devices.

・Application running speed: Track time response time on different devices with different memory capacities, different network speeds …

・Memory requirement: When downloading and installing an app, running the app ..

・Application’s function checking: To ensure the application does not crash when losing network connectivity or other external impacts.

3. Some automated testing tools for mobile applications

3.1. IOS has popular automatic testing tools like:

FoneMonkey application testing tool

Frank application testing tool

QTP application testing tool

3.2. Android operating system has some automated testing tools such as:

Robotium application testing tool

Eggplant application testing tool (No free source)

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Mobile technology and smart devices are current trends and will change the future of the world. Millions of applications are downloaded daily from the Appstore or Google Play for personal devices. Mobile applications are various to meet the needs of education, health care or entertainment of users. In order to have quality products that meet the needs of real society, mobile testing is a matter of great concern. It’s a vital factor in the development process that brings to market the high-quality product.

1. What is meant by mobile testing?

Mobile testing is a process by which mobile devices is tested for its functionality, usability and consistency,…..to ensure quality products

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2. What are types of mobile testing

There are two types of mobile testing: hardware testing and software testing or mobile application testing

2.1. Hardware testing: includes testing of the processor, screen size, resolution, memory, camera, radio, Bluetooth, WIFI, etc.

2.2. Software or Mobile Application Testing: also known as mobile application testing to distinguish it from the above method.

3. Differences in mobile testing compared to other types of testing:

3.1. The variety of mobile devices: 

Different device manufacturers such as HTC, SamSung, Apple, Nokia … with different screen sizes and hardware configurations

・Multi-platform (iOS 6,7,8, Android 4.2; 4.3; 4.4, BB 5; BB6 …)

・Mobile devices have different application runtime

3.2. Challenging hardware of the device

・Processing speed limit

・Device memory capacity limit

・WAP / HTTP device protocol differences

3.3. Challenges of network connection

・Different types of networks (GSM / GPRS / WIFI / 3G …)

・No predictable time for data transmission

・Difference in connection speed via physical

・Diverse network operators with different network features

3.4. Types of testing

In addition, mobile application testing also includes the following types of testing:

1. UI Testing: Test UI, Menu style, consistency of user interface on different devices
2. Function Testing: Functional testing of major mobile application functions according to the device’s specification
3. Performance and Load Test: Test mobile app behavior in low resources (Memory/ Storage Space) and when multiple users access the mobile app site together
4. Usability Testing: Checking the usability aspects of mobile applications
5. Compatibility Testing: Testing the compatibility of your application with native device features to ensure that your application does not interfere with other applications in the device.
6. Interrupt checking: Because mobile devices have much lower memory than desktops, make sure that when there are voice calls, SMS messages, charging plugs, low memory notifications while the app is running does not cause any conflict.

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Lotus Quality Assurance (LQA)

Tel: (+84) 24-6660-7474
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.lotus-qa.com/