Saturday, July 21, 2012

Mobility Companies Embrace Composite Method to Test Mobile Business Apps

In many of the well established mobile enterprise companies the mobile testing is done by a separate team to report any flaws and suggest quick fixes. These teams now rely on composite or hybrid method of testing apps on the mobile devices. Let us now see how exactly the test teams work on this and the challenges faced by them who work hard to deliver quality services or products to the end users.

Mobile testing acquires a complex working model owing to the diversity of the device environment, the hardware and networking considerations and Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodologies. While the points specified here are self explanatory let us dive deep to explore the actual scenario of the challenges that props out for the testing engineers.

Almost every year awaits a new device in the form of Smartphones, tablets or any wireless device. As a result of this we have a huge variety of population of mobile devices that has occupied the mobile space as of now. The sizes, speeds and memories are the variable parameters in the device manufacturing process and the mobile testing professionals have a Herculean task of testing the user interfaces of the mobile application in order to make sure the compatibility of the app on these varied device specifications. Smartphones suffers another technological limitation of the Runtime mismatch between the devices. The testers should comprehensively test the behavior of the mobile app created for the irregular runtime standards of the Smartphones.

Hardware configurations and Networking patterns influence the investigation of the mobile application on the various mobile platform based phones. As discusses previously, the mobile devices vary in speed and memory. This variation is considerably large when in comparison with the traditional desktops or laptops. Ensuring the performance quality in all the devices with absolutely no compromise is quiet a task on a test engineer's responsibility list. Another tantalizing affair that the Quality Analysts of mobile device face is the network latency which is a capricious parameter resulting in a fickle data transfer rate. Thus, testing for the efficiency of apps on varying networking bandwidths is a unique challenge that the QA professionals face.

RAD in mobile application development is a common scenario in the mobile world for delivering the time saving parameter to the market. This intention is quiet a burden for the professionals to bear but with no chance of compromise, the testers develop their skills by a little brain storming to provide the user the best app with zero errors or bugs with a stringent time limit. Efficient testers adhere to the time factor and also to the highest quality software launching or distribution.

The above challenges listed paves way for that efficient and bug free mobile application delivery for the clients. This process is an absolute determining factor when it comes to making or breaking the trust with the clients. The UAT or user acceptance test will be a complete success when the ground work of mobile testing is done comprehensively.

Endeavour The Mobility Company is mobile enterprise specialist company that houses a mobile testing team that plays an important role in validating and checking the mobile application development products that are designed for the clients from varied business niche. The Endeavour Quality Assurance Lab or EQuAL team is determined to provide the end users the perfectly crafted mobile applications without any errors and help them achieve increased ROI.

Article Source: EzineArticles.com

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