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What are the types, importance, and benefits of Mobile Application Testing?

Technology gave us a wonderful gift that is smartphones or mobiles. Nowadays, people are very fond of mobiles and they are a part of our lives. In a pandemic, mobile phones help students to study by staying at home. It simplifies our workload and eases our lifestyle. This advancement in technology become a huge success in mobile industries. Sometimes, problems may occur on our mobile applications. So, the engineers made a solution by testing the applications of that phone. They ensure that the mobile apps are working properly or not. Mobile applications are used for entertainment, communication, and many other activities. If mobile applications are not performing well then the engineers can detect the errors by using the mobile application testing method. So, it helps to find out the faults/bugs/shortcomings in the mobile apps. It is a very essential step for the development process of applications.

Mobile Application Testing is of many types. Let's see some:-

Functional Testing refers to the process in which it checks the functioning of mobile applications. It ensures that the functions of the phone are working correctly.

Performance Testing refers to the process in which it checks the performance of mobile applications. It ensures the stability of the mobile application.

Usability Testing refers to the process in which it checks the behavior and response while using such as text clarity, size of buttons or icons, etc.

Security Testing refers to the process in which it checks the security of the applications. It ensures that there is no risk of a data leak. It is the main part of the application testing process. Many users uninstall the application because of security issues.

Installation Testing refers to the process in which it checks whether the applications are installed or uninstalled properly. It also ensures the apps are error-free.

Interruption Testing refers to the process in which it checks that the application is working without any interruption by another application. It ensures that while taking a call, the video should pause itself.

Design Testing refers to the process in which it ensures that it is easy to use and offers a better experience.

Some benefits of mobile application testing are as follows:-
Mobile Application Testing ensures that the application is working properly without any functions failure.
This method raises the trust and satisfaction of the customers.
It ensures that the application is safe and secure.
It ensures that the application would install and uninstall without showing any error.
It is a time-saving method.
It reduces the cost of an application development project.

The question is why Mobile Application Testing is important?

As we know that Mobile Application Testing is the main part of mobile application development. A small defect can affect the whole reputation of the brand. In this competitive world, mobile application testing helps businesses to grow and to attract users to allow companies to generate new sales. It can detect the bugs or errors in the application and help developers to fix them in the early stage. It helps the application to work smoothly without any interruption. As applications should be simple and easy to use, they should be up-to-date without any errors. It also gives high-quality applications. Its objective is to check the performance and behavior of the mobile applications before delivering them to the market. Mobile Application Testing needs a superior strategy in testing an application. Strategies help to list out the things to do as part of testing to reach the quality objective in the available time. There are so many mobile application testing tools that are used to check various features of mobile applications such as Appium, Robotium, Espresso, etc.

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