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Tools Used for Mobile App Testing
By NIIT Editorial
Published on 27/10/2021
7 minutes
The multi-billion dollar industry of mobile apps is a battleground for new apps that are launched on the platform each day. The latest numbers suggest that as latest as of February 2021, about 88.5 thousand apps were launched on the Google App Store. Mind you this was the lowest threshold for the metric since March 2019, but you get a clear idea of the competition that you must overcome to feature on the front page.
What is Mobile App Testing?
Mobile app testing helps testers be sure of the code quality. It assures developers that their product matches (at least) the minimum eligibility criteria to get published on leading app stores. By running essential tests on the software, it can be evaluated for functionality, usability, and performance. Mobile testing can be manually performed by quality assurance professionals or automated.
Types of Techniques Mobile App Testing?
The objective of testing a mobile app is to find as many fallacies as possible so the end-users get not just a usable but an efficient product. We’ve already discussed the kind of mobile app testing techniques that can be performed in this article.
Today, we’ll be looking at the top tools that can be used for the same. These focus mainly on automating testing practices across the channel.
TestComplete
This tool allows you to test user interfaces. QA team members can record their tests once and play it across a range of platforms such as desktops, web and mobile. Developed by SmartBear, it uses Artificial Intelligence to maintain tests. Be it native apps, or a cross-platform app designed for both iOS and Android, you can test it all on this tool. Here are a couple of other features that are packed with it:
- Time consumption with automated tests across environments
- With its command-line interface and RestAPI, you can incorporate automated tests into tools such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
- Use the TestExecute feature to carry out parallel tests across virtual machines
Kobiton
Kobiton offers over-the-top features with which QA testers can go beyond emulators and see for themselves how the app performs in real devices. Its device lab management makes it possible to connect on-premise and on-desk devices to a private cloud. This gives Kobiton a cloud mobile testing platform spin. Testers can maintain a central testing log to coordinate the testing phases for both iOS and Android apps.
- Use Kobiton’s mobile device testing tools to rectify and perfect testing failures. Instead of surfing through the log files at a stretch, you can log into the Session Explorer and discover exactly how the tests are working out.
- It offers continuous testing that can be performed at mobile speeds.
- In addition to regression tests, testers can check the code on real devices with the built-in IDE.
Calabash
It is open-source software that bootstrapping startups, not to mention multi-million MNCs can utilize for assessing the health hygiene of native Android and iOS apps. Calabash can automate testing for apps. It is a trademark product from the team of developers behind Xamarin with pre-designed libraries for iOS and Android.
- Built-in libraries allow the code, subject to tests, to exchange data between native and hybrid apps.
- Its architecture consists of the cucumber framework that facilitates QA professionals to create test reports in simple English.
- The xamarin cloud service, which hosts more than 1000+ devices can be actively used for the apps.
Appium
This testing toolkit was developed by Sauce Labs and is well-known for being an end-to-end product for mobile app testing. It is supported by all mainstream operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and Mac. It runs on JSON wire protocol to functionalize hybrid as well as native apps. This mobile automation testing tool has a server that is scripted in Node.Js and operated readily with programming languages such as Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
- It is open source and can be easily installed.
- QA teams can use this mobile testing software without direct access to the codebase.
Money Talk
It is an open-source mobile app automation testing software that can be used to assess both Android and iOS apps. Several types of functional, scenario-based, and interactive tests can be automated with Money Talk. Native, hybrid, real-devices, and even simulator apps can be made to go through data-driven tests on this software.
- QA testers can work on Money Talk without prior knowledge of scripting languages.
- It has an in-built feature of screen capture in addition to being able to create reports in HTML and XML.
- Money Talk supports Jenkins and Hudson
Final Thoughts
Mobile app testing assumes incredible weightage when it comes to pre-launch app must-dos. The more time you devote to this process the more resources you save post launching the product.
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