mobile application performance testing considerations
Automate testing
Mobile app development is too slow, and human testing is the main culprit.
Companies should aim to automate 95% of test cases to achieve an optimal level of coverage. Companies should also use automated test solutions that are compatible with their IDE (Eclipse, Visual Studio, HP UFT) and test frameworks (Selenium, Calabash, Appium).
Stop running your own equipment lab
When a new device comes to market, manual internal testing can really slow you down. It's even better if you can test your app before it's released and before users can upgrade. But the answer to both questions is probably no. But having the right equipment is critical to having the best test coverage.
Let a well-managed lab-as-a-service do the work, so that suppliers can get their hands on new equipment before it is publicly available. Let them manage the test lab and provide the real devices, networks, locations, and user conditions for which the tests are conducted.
Put the device test lab in the cloud
Once operators choose to put devices in the cloud, equipment costs and deadline challenges can be greatly reduced.
Automatic provision of environment
Automating your test scripts may speed up your testing and release.
You can confirm that your environment is ready to be tested by adding a pre-test session, and you can also know which errors are caused by environmental instability and which are general test case errors. Finally, if the environment is stable, the test will not return false negatives, which can save time and money.
Guaranteed continuous quality
As teams begin to adopt agile practices, the feedback loop between QA and developers often becomes unbalanced because the process is new.
Companies can embed quality throughout the development cycle, a concept known as continuous quality. Unit testing makes QA feedback always visible and developers always know how their code is doing because the code is constantly being tested. Maintaining such control over the quality of the mobile application throughout the SDLC phase increases the speed of development of the site, reduces the number of defects that flow into the production phase, and ultimately results in higher user satisfaction.
Let the evidence be the key
Maintaining evidence of defects is crucial. Without evidence, it is difficult to recreate errors in testing and provide adequate feedback to the developer team. Having tools that record transactions and then let you share the recorded video with team members during the feedback period, error reproduction is less of a problem, and the testing process can be accelerated.
