Mobile Device Testing is becoming increasingly popular and the reasons are clear. Today, it doesn't matter the segment and sales format, customers are present in the digital world and the selling experience is decided in front of the screen of mobile devices.
Not surprisingly, digital transformation has attempted to optimize and transform experiences into the best possible ones. Steps that were once complex and arduous, such as logging into a bank application or confirming online purchases, now take place in literally a few taps on a mobile screen.
However, to achieve this simplified model, the interested company must first follow a long testing protocol. From the measured results of testing and application of improvements, the end customer receives an over the top product.
These tests are known as Mobile Device Testing and, as the name suggests, create tests focused on the many existing mobile devices.
To better understand this, we at Auditeste have created this article and gathered everything you need to know about it!
What is Mobile Device Testing?
Mobile Device Testing is a testing modality that focuses on optimizing digital applications on mobile devices. Today, this type of testing is among the most in demand thanks to the increasing popularity of apps and websites for hiring, buying, or problem solving in general.
In literal translation, Mobile Device Testing considers the many aspects of the many manufacturers available. To better understand this, let's just consider the Brazilian scenario.
In Brazil, there are exactly 339 cell phone brands in the country and more than 18,000 types of handsets, according to the Celulares.BR platform. With this in mind, consider that each manufacturer has a particularity in the device kernel and unique characteristics in each device that circulates in the hands of potential users of your site or application.
Thus, there is the need to consider a long list of resolutions, processor capacity, signal quality, amount of RAM available, among many other points that define a good or bad experience.
It is precisely because of this need that mobile tests gain importance and become indispensable for applications aimed at mobile devices.
What is the mobile device kernel?
The mobile device kernel works as the core of the operating system. Currently, iOS uses the Darwin kernel, which is more restrictive and poorly customized, and Android uses the Linux kernel and is present in thousands of devices because it is open source, which allows manufacturers to customize the operating system and create their own features.
How does Mobile Device Testing work?
Mobile Device Testing can work either manually, where an expert performs tests and issues reports based on logical and subjective objectives, or via robots with automated tests that focus on overload and stress situations.
Even with these two forms, mobile testing starts from general concepts regarding the site or application, such as the variety of resolutions of the application, the use of the solution in different operating systems and their respective variations, the standardization of the environment having in mind the long list of mobile devices, etc.
To better understand this, we have outlined below the main forms of mobile device testing that exist!
1. Planning Tests
Planning tests consider the interaction and communication between the operating system, hardware, and different types of networks. For good quality, the application is expected to function as it is supposed to.
In this sense, this type of Mobile Device Testing investigates an application and looks for scenarios that the application or site is slow, crashes, data loss, etc. Going beyond this, this testing also takes into consideration current and future ways of connecting.
2. Mobile Performance Testing
Mobile performance testing creates stress situations, increases load levels, and causes many requests at the same time within the application. All this with the aim of finding and eliminating slowdowns and crashes.
3. Mobility Testing
Mobility testing focuses on sharing information between applications. In practice, this Mobile Device Testing operation considers application structuring with a focus on effectiveness.
4. Synchronism Test
The synchronism test highlights the role of cloud computing and checks whether or not there is packet loss that would cause harm to data synchronization on the network.
5. Usability
One of the most important Mobile Device Testing, the usability tests take into account the user experience and focus existing solutions on the evaluative criteria of ease, speed, and success rate in relation to the application's purpose.
Why is Mobile Device Testing so important?
Mobile Device Testing has become indispensable because of the new buying journey of B2B, B2C, and many other business models that are now based on apps and websites.
According to an annual survey by Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil has 242 million cell phones in circulation. The same study also points to a scenario of 352 million when considering other mobile devices, such as notebooks and tablets.
In practice, this indicates that there are 1.6 devices per person in the country, which has approximately 214 million, as indicated by the latest IBGE census.
This number reinforces the tendency of Brazilians in general to have and use mobile devices with more familiarity. In this sense, it is up to the companies to have functional applications in these sales and service channels.
For this, Mobile Device Testing is the best way to create and offer functional, optimized, and practical applications for the potential users that are available.
How can Auditeste help you?
At Auditeste, we are specialists in manual and automated testing for mobile devices, having access to the main software and assembling a team of collaborators with wide experience.
Using a clear and objective methodology, our team divides Mobile Device Testing into three stages, as follows Planning, Specification and Execution.
In each stage, you receive the project deliverables, the test plan, the test script, and other steps until you get to the final defect report.
On Auditeste's Mobile Testing page, you will learn all the necessary steps to achieve the best result for your application!
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