With a deluge of mobile device's support and automation tools, software engineers have to keep pace and furnish the final product in quick and short cycles. Testing has become an essential part of a product life cycle, so as to verify if the developing or developed product’s design and functionality harmonize with the envisioned version of the product.
Software testing averts the possibility of a faulty final product emerging after so many efforts and saves software engineers from scrambling to start from scratch. Hence, the software testing part is as of much significance as software development.
Attaining software testing and quality assurance goals is a continuing challenge since QA teams have to sprint to catch up with nimble DevOps and TestOps, and the latest lean practices. However, as software testing practices evolve new challenges crop up and so does the search for their solutions.
Complete and thorough testing of a product is beginning to sound like a pipe dream. Today’s software product’s codes encompass at least a few million lines and the time and resources required to test every aspect of code in order to deploy a foolproof software application comes under strain due to sky-high demand for software in an exceedingly short timeline. Thus, software houses find it immensely difficult to see the entire testing process.
As the product launch date approaches, the non-technical of the lot such as boss, clients and project managers push software developers and testers to deploy the product, leaving testing halfway.
One cannot refuse the demand of clients, managers or boss, but by collaborating with all stakeholders and generating a priority list of requirements could help cope with the situation. A priority list would help determine the key features of the product that should be tested and approved as soon as any code is available at the earliest, then progress onto advanced capabilities can be made.
Trying to speed up the development process of a single application by adding in more testers can give rise to chaos as it becomes difficult to keep track of all the changes applied in testing by separate individuals in a QA team. Moreover, the requirement specifications sometimes change. Further on, a developer makes alterations to testing conditions in order to solve identified issues or throw in new functions for testing.
To prevent an entire process from being spectacularly botched and avoid long turnaround time, testers and developers need to encourage stable and controlled testing conditions. A precise description of changes implemented during testing would be a good start as it would alleviate the need to play pinball while garnering testing prerequisites.
Moreover, setting up a comprehensive documentation of required product specifications can be tremendously helpful for all technical parties and allows in grasping a product’s complexity and its journey from the current stage to the end. As all testers involved comprehend the product and testing requirements and objectives, they will ensure relevant test cases are generated.
The Mobile-Testing Ordeal
The massive proliferation of mobile phones has given rise to 24,000 different types of Android devices, each of them powered via various Android OS versions. Testing software viability for each device type is software developers and testers’ worst nightmare as if they needed this added complexity.
Tackle testing by identifying the most common types of devices customers use. Despite that, the list can turn out to be longer than Burj Khalifa as new device types keep inundating the market every day. However, this list needs to be further classified by grouping together relevant devices and taking a representative from each group. A representative could be the one that fulfills all basic requirements for that group such as screen resolution and size, Bluetooth support, OS version, or other features that are cardinal to your product.
On the other hand, a cloud-based mobile testing service could be a quick and reasonable solution to tackling rapid changes and deployments in the mobile market.
No longer we can say that we don’t have access to data because it is everywhere at the tips of our fingers, be it production or support portals where customers open tickets and provide feedback on the problems they encountered. With the profusion of Spectrum Customer service, customers are taking an active part in partaking the development process of even technical products; their valuable feedback and conversations on social media are a treasure that you should keep a lookout for.
Analysis of this data can help gather useful insights in improving the product quality and subsequently, customer service and the company’s credibility.
You just need to figure out how to mine data via analysis tools and find out nitty-gritty details of how customers utilize your application, the flow customer prefers and which one they leave in the middle, which screen type they prefer, and more.
This sort of data analysis can be absolutely useful in planning for future eventualities, upcoming product features, and blunders to avoid.
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