According to official reports from Google and Apple, there are about six million apps on their combined mobile app stores. This means customers and users are not lacking in apps and game choices. It also means immense competition for developers and businesses to ensure their apps are better than their competitors’. Mobile app testing helps with this while guaranteeing they meet expectations. Let’s look at important tests you should know about.
Functional Testing
As the name implies, this type of testing ensures the app is functional. It focuses on the app’s primary purpose, functionality, and flow to ensure it is responsive and works as expected. If your app cannot do what it intends or what users expect it to, fast loading speeds, good design and reported functionality will not convince users to use it.
Businesses must partner with an app development UK agency that gets the basics right so that their app passes this test. Some things to focus on include:
- The app installing and launching correctly.
- Users being able to sign up, log in, log out and delete accounts.
- Buttons and text boxes working properly.
- Push notifications showing correctly.
Usability Testing
Both Google and Apple are very particular about the apps on their app stores providing a great user experience. Usability testing checks how easy and intuitive an app is to use. Ideally, it entails checking the whole user experience from when they install the app to when they achieve what they wanted when they installed it.
Developers also seek to identify and quash bugs while receiving feedback on improving their apps. Hiring the right app development agency London ensures the usability test goes as smoothly as possible because they will develop the app with the user in mind while also aiming for as few bugs as possible. The app development agency should do this test before and after launch so you can see how users will experience your app.
Performance Testing
This test aims to answer the question, “How does the app perform under different workloads?” The app should continue performing well under the specified parameters without malfunctioning. Performance testing checks:
- Memory and battery consumption
- Startup times
- Network performance and ability to retrieve information
- Server and API performance
Performance testing combined with excellent user interfaces and experience are crucial in apps that provide live-streaming services.
Security Testing
Apps require user data for different functionality, the best example being registering accounts and logging in. They might also need device-specific permissions, such as access to the camera and microphone.
Developers must guarantee the highest levels of security that ensure the app’s integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality. Security testing should be as broad as possible and cover threats under different circumstances and depending on the permissions users give your app.
Once a mobile app design agency has completed an app, it should have quality assurance testers and processes. They should ensure the app works as expected, provides a great user experience, and is secure. Testers should also check that it doesn’t cause the devices it is installed on to malfunction due to being unable to handle heavy workloads.
