As the development of mobile testing is growing day by day, at the same time challenges of mobile testing is also increasing. Give yours expert view on these challenges.

As the development of mobile testing is growing day by day, at the same time challenges of mobile testing is also increasing. Give yours expert view on these challenges.

Like websites, mobile web applications are also used by the large number of costumers all over world.  One thing is common in testing of both web and mobile apps testing i.e. if QA fails somewhere then end users will be affected.  Some major challenges faced by QA while testing mobile app are as follows:

Platforms:

There are varieties of operating platforms -I Phone, Blackberry, Android, and Windows. QA teams needs to understand the complexity and behavior of each type of platform.

Network:

More than 400 mobile networks operators are their worldwide. This working on different local network standards (GSM, CDMA etc.) also adds complications.

Devices:

As a survey there are 10,000 different type of client devices that can use mobile site, this multitude of devices add complexity. Different sets having variations in screen size, configurations, hardware capabilities of rending image.

Processing time:

After code submission it takes quite a bit time for the applications to be available for different markets. To verify any code change team has to wait for some time. Also there are various standards of code of different platforms which adds complexity.

Core Challenges:

Multiplicity of mobile devices with different capabilities, features and restrictions. Devices may have different technical capabilities such as amount of available memory, screen resolution, screen orientation and size of the display, network connectivity options, support for different standards and interfaces.

User Interface Issues :

It is possible that may be mobile Use would be different from a user expects or different from the Operating System underlying platform visual capabilities resulting in applications that work as “designed”, do not meet user expectations and hence viewed as poor quality.

Latency Issues : 

Less bandwidth of a mobile connection that generates higher latency which can impact on both performance as well as the functionality of the MobileApp.