What are Test Cases?

Test cases are sets of conditions for the testers to determine whether the mobile application or its features are working as expected or not. They guide the testers through a series of steps which validate if the application is free of bugs and is working as per the requirements of the clients. They can even be used as baseline documents when there is no documentation for a given application. While it seems like writing test cases is an easy task, it isn’t. For writing test cases, the tester needs to understand the application under test (AUT) well. Apart from this understanding, the tester must have basic writing skills and a good attention to detail.

How to Build Effective Agile Test Cases for Application Testing?

Step 1: Perform an in-depth study of the documents or the requirements of the client. To build an effective Agile test case, you must thoroughly know what the application is all about. Without this knowledge, the test cases that you would build would be rather generic. Generic test cases are never a good idea, especially when you are going Agile.

Step 2: It is best practice to update test cases according to the real behavior of the app. Agile is all about changing, about updating, and that should reflect in your test cases as well. As soon as you notice something new or different about the way the app is behaving, you must update your test cases to accommodate these unforeseen changes in the behavior of the app.

Step 3: Keep deleting test cases which are no longer relevant to the app. For example, if you have a set of test cases for a feature of the app but the app’s code is modified to inculcate some other feature in it, the test cases you had made earlier would no longer be relevant to your app. This is when you need to replace those test cases with new ones which would actually be relevant to the features of the app.

Step 4: If there are a few scenarios which are quite similar to each other, merge them. This would not only make a better test case but would also help you reduce the number of resources you would have to spend on testing those scenarios. Testing them separately would only cost you resources which you could use elsewhere for better testing.

Step 5: If the app has a parent product, analyze the previously logged defects of that product and convert those defects into test cases. This would save you a lot of time, and would also help you in building more relevant test cases for the AUT.

Step 6: Go beyond the requirements. Think from a different user’s perspective in order to get a better idea of the usability of the software. This would also allow you to think about innovative testing scenarios, helping you create effective Agile test cases for AUT.

Step 7: Automate repetitive test cases. Tests like regression and sanity tests, amongst many others, have a lot of repetition and cost you a lot of your valuable time in addition to unnecessary manual efforts. Save time and effort by automating such tests. Utilise the time and efforts saved in something actually worthy of your time and efforts.

Step 8: Perform exploratory or random tests. They are very important since a lot of defects not enlisted in the requirements can go unnoticed. Converting these into test cases makes the testing process more efficient. It also helps you build effective Agile test cases for the app you are testing.

BrainMobi is a leading mobile app development company. Backed by an ace testing department, the apps we build run smoothly without any bugs. Connect with us at sales@brainmobi.com and share your requirements for a free quote in your idea!

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You can see how much competition each app has to face. Hence the apps have to push their limits to make it big in the app stores. If you have an app that has a great concept but the app doesn’t really run smoothly, it would leave a bad impact on the users and the app wouldn’t be able to reach the heights that it had planned.

As I have already mentioned in the very beginning, the competition in the market is really high, so high that you would see hundreds, if not thousands of apps competing for the same spot in terms of app downloads. A lot of these apps make it to the top spots but some don’t. While there are a lot of factors affecting their position, one important factor deciding their success is whether the app has bugs or not. An app with bugs is bound to be unsuccessful in due time. And these measures tackle such issues.

This blog would be split into two parts, one would introduce you to Mobile Application Testing, and the other would introduce you to Quality Testing. In the later blogs, we would discuss Mobile Application Testing and Quality Assurance further.

What is Mobile Application Testing?

It is a process using which, mobile apps are tested for their functionality, consistency, and usability. It can be done, either manually, or with the help of automation(using specialized testing tools). There are a few types of Mobile Application Testing:

• Functional Testing
• Laboratory Testing
• Performance Testing
• Memory Leakage Testing
• Interrupt Testing
• Usability Testing
• Installation Testing
• Certification Testing
• Security Testing
• Location Testing
• Outdated Software Testing
• Load Testing
• Black Box Testing
• CrowdSourced Testing

Benefits of Mobile Application Testing

• Enables company to build applications that are accessible across multiple platforms
• Applications are getting complex day by day, so there is a need for end-to-end testing
• Helps the companies to improve the quality of the apps

What is Quality Assurance?

In simple words, it is the process of sticking to a system which gives a lot of emphasis on committing to certain specified standards to be able to deliver high-quality mobile apps. The quality of the apps is increased with the help of a certain predefined number of pragmatic steps. Quality Assurance is really important these days since it is a lot more difficult now than ever before to capture users.

The process can be split into five basic steps:

• Developers provide the QA team with a build to work upon
• The QA team performs functional testing on it and identifies bugs
• A report for the same is sent for feedback
• Product team sets priorities for various bugs and sends the priorities to the QA team
• The QA team recaps with the developers

Benefits of Quality Assurance

• Holds the projects to high standards
• Increases overall project quality
• It’s cost-effective
• We can measure real-time results
• Ensures quality of app

BrainMobi is a leading mobile app development company. We have an excellent testing team which specializes in Mobile Application Testing and Quality Assurance. The quality of apps that we make is sans-pareil owing to our team of ace testers. Send us your requirements at sales@brainmobi.com for a free quote on your idea!

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Hardware Testing: In this type of testing, we test the hardware including internal hardware, internal processor, resolution etc. This is commonly referred to as “Mobile Testing”.

Software Testing: In this type of testing, we test the functionality of the applications on mobile devices. It is commonly referred to as “Mobile Application Testing” or simply “Mobile App Testing”.

The type of mobile testing that we are interested in, for the sake of this blog, is the second one, mobile app testing. These are highly important since many of the negative reviews on app marketplaces are based on problems such as overuse of battery, network failures, and crashes. When done the right way, mobile app testing can significantly reduce the number of bugs in the app in the beta stage itself.

8 Different Types of Mobile Application Testing:

1. Functional Testing
2. Performance Testing
3. Memory Leakage Testing
4. Interrupt Testing
5. Usability Testing
6. Installation Testing
7. Operational Testing
8. Security Testing

Let’s learn more about each of the aforementioned types of mobile app testing services.

1. Functional Testing:

Functional testing focuses on the functional behavior that the application exhibits. It is done to ensure that the application is working according to the requirements. The user interface and the call flows of the app are put to test in this type of testing. Functional testing is mostly automated and not manual since if it is done manually, it gets time-consuming as well as complex and exhaustive. However, some functionalities must be tested manually. The results of both the tests are combined to get a better result.

2. Performance Testing:

Performance testing, as the name suggests, is carried out to test the performance and actions of the app. The app is tested on various situations such as testing performance on low battery due to heavy battery usage, poor bandwidth, network out of coverage area, changing connection mode, etc. Activities on client and server end, both affect the performance of the mobile app, hence performance testing is done on both the ends of the spectrum.

3. Memory Leakage Testing:

Memory leakage testing is done to ensure that there is no loss of data in the mobile apps. It is one of those issues that directly affect the performance of mobile devices. Transferring files may take a lot more time than it usually does, and the app may even switch off automatically due to a shortage of memory. There are various tools that are used for memory leakage testing.

4. Interrupt Testing:

Interrupt testing is the process of testing mobile apps to ensure that the functions are not interrupted while using the applications. The interruptions could be anything from incoming calls to network outage and low memory warnings. This test is vital to know how the app would perform in all of those situations. Apps must be able to go into a suspended state to hold these interruptions. Upon being freed of the interruptions, the apps must restart on their own.

5. Usability Testing:

Usability testing is the process of testing mobile apps in terms of flexibility, usability, and friendliness. It ensures that the app is easy to use and that it offers a suitable user experience to customers. This type of testing helps in improving the audience retention of the app and is hence very important.

6. Installation Testing:

Installation testing is the process of testing the installation, uninstallation, and updations of the app. This is done to ensure that these processes are carried out in the app without any interruption so that the user can install, uninstall, and update the app smoothly and flexibly.

7. Operational Testing:

All mobile operating systems provide inbuilt backup and recovery functions which help in saving or recovering all files or applications that were lost due to some reason. Operational Testing ensures that this process of backup and recovery works properly and responds as per the requirements of the customers.

8. Security Testing:

Security Testing is the process of testing the network security and the application data to check that they are responding as per the requirement/guideline or not. Security is an important issue in every app and hence this type of testing is one of the most important types of testing.

BrainMobi has a team of top mobile app testers performing all of the aforementioned types of testing. We are one of the best mobile app development companies and we feel that it is very important to perform thorough tests to ensure that the app is bug-free. Connect with us at sales@brainmobi.com to fulfill your expectations with your dream app.

This is the first post of a series of posts which would give you some useful insight about mobile app testing services. So stay tuned for the rest of them, and let us know in the comments below if you found this useful!

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