7 Steps to Pragmatic Mobile Testing
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The document discusses strategies for improving mobile application testing, including expanding test plans to cover more user scenarios and device platforms. It recommends analyzing real user data and monitoring to prioritize the most common and revenue-generating user flows, as well as the devices most used by customers. Automating repetitive tests can save time and free up resources for more comprehensive testing of an app's core functions and performance on different devices.
7 Steps to Pragmatic Mobile Testing
- 1. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 1
- 2. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 2
- 3. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 3 o Expanding Test Plans o Shorter Product Cycles o More Device Platforms o A Changing Focus o An Emphasis on Analysis
- 4. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 4 ¡ Time ¡ Duration ¡ Location ¡ Intent TIP: Work with your product owner, review market" research, conduct user focus groups, and verify/validate" with real user monitoring
- 5. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 5 ¡ Developers intended execution paths ¡ User common use paths
- 6. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 6 ¡ Developers intended execution paths ¡ User common use paths ¡ User revenue generating patterns ¡ Current problem areas TIP: Use real user data to create test cases
- 7. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 7 ¡ Core functions and experiences ¡ Core differentiators ¡ Edge functions ¡ Complicated ¡ Repetitive ¡ Measure manual effort ¡ Know your person days per cycle, per area TIP: Use your matrix to know which tests to automate
- 8. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 8 ¡ Rank active devices ¡ Analyze device usage ¡ Weight matrix to device ¡ Know problem areas per device ¡ Core devices to own ¡ Edge devices to borrow/rent ¡ TIP: Choose which devices you must own" for testing and which might be optional but available" based on real user monitoring
- 9. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 9 mPulse Product Offering Lite and Pro Real User Monitoring of mobile web and apps Real-time data collection Real-time analysis Real-time display within 7 seconds Real-time and over-time Data collection and saving Built-in dimensions: location, browser, OS Built-in dashboards Lite: $0 / Pro: $99/month
- 10. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 10 ¡ Start ASAP ¡ Simple ¡ Time Consuming ¡ Mundane ¡ Rhythm TIP: Goal is Continuous Integration execution
- 11. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 11 TouchTest Product Offering Basic Manual testing of mobile apps and websites Access to hundreds of devices Video and image capture Batch design verification Remote control function Multi-Touch support Collaborate with your team on the same device Remote control function Starting at $99/month
- 12. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 12 TouchTest Product Offering TouchTest Enterprise Private hosted Self Deployed Manual testing of mobile apps and websites Manual testing of mobile apps and websites Unlimited hours of tested on private hosted devices Unlimited hours of tested on private hosted devices All the features of Basic Automated Testing Automated Testing Re-Use scripts! Re-Use scripts! Device Monitoring Device Monitoring Complex Gesture Support Gesture Support Continuous Integration Contact Us Contact Us
- 13. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 13 ¡ Device reaction to app functionality ¡ Battery, CPU, Memory… ¡ Common user path ¡ Speed per screen or page ¡ Separate back and front end performance ¡ Performance to revenue correlation/transaction or task completion TIP: Prioritize tests to highest revenue producing/completion paths
- 14. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 14 ¡ Time to Market ¡ Functional ¡ Competitive TIP: Prioritize which strategy you will apply with the time saved from" test automation
- 15. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 15 Know your: 1. User 2. App 3. Matrix 4. Devices 5. Plan to automate 6. Performance 7. Edge
- 16. © 2014 SOASTA. All rights reserved. April 17, 2015 16