Business is going mobile, and it seems like more and more critical business processes rely on mobile applications every day. As developers rush to bring new innovations to market and take advantage of mobile business opportunities, production times and release schedules are being slowed down by test cycles. Not to mention the increased risk introduced with new variations of hand-held device software and hardware.
Part of the complexity of testing mobile business applications is identifying how many test cases need to be created to ensure high quality user experience. With variations in devices, operating systems, web browsers, applications, and more, QA teams face a daunting challenge. Factor in the frequency of updates that come with all of these devices; ensuring your mobile business processes are fully tested is simply not possible with manual testing.
So how can you protect your business from unforeseen failures caused by the complex mobile application landscape? Using automated testing tools for mobile applications is the only way.
To get started testing mobile applications in your enterprise, you need to address three key parts:
Now that you have selected your mobile devices, you will need to evaluate and prioritize business processes for testing. In the Perfecto example, a total of 400 processes are identified and categorized as either critical path tests, high priority, or low priority tests.
This process can be extremely time consuming and costly. Fortunately, using an intelligent automation platform such as the latest version of Worksoft Certify®, mobile business processes can be captured in real-time to create test cases.
Worksoft Certify offers a “scriptless” approach to functional and business process testing, providing analysts and business users with the ability to automatically capture and define tests through an intuitive menu-driven interface using natural language narratives. The test cases and full test libraries are built using the Captures previously mentioned. This allows users to build test cases without complex programming knowledge – and without disrupting normal business activities. Utilizing these functions allows the business to save significant time and resources both in discovering processes, and in creating extensive automation test libraries.
These business process tests can be run continuously, allowing for ongoing and “lights out” test coverage across mobile business applications. This provides a new level of daily coverage that is simply not possible without intelligent automation.
When a new device is released, or a new version of a mobile OS is released, automated testing will discover risks and failures before a manual tester ever could. As businesses become more reliant on mobile apps, this type of continuous test coverage becomes more crucial.
To learn more about mobile testing, be sure to visit our mobile application testing page.