Some Aspects That Should Be Considered In Course Of Mobile Software Development And Testing
Modern mobile software products are sophisticated and complex. Their producers must consider a lot of various factors in course of the developing process. Smartphones and tablets have many different sensors that make them very sensitive to various influences.
Nowadays smartphones and tablets support many different ways of inputting information. A user can interact with a mobile device through touch screen, gestures, moves of the device, voice commands. Besides a mobile device performs some processes regardless of what application is utilized.
A Mobile Device Always:
- determines its location;
- supports networking connection;
- adjusts brightness and orientation of the screen;
- performs other operations.
If a user works with several applications plus these processes are operating, the device may get overloaded, some software products may hang or crash. That is why mobile testing requires more attention to some issues that are not so important during web site testing or desktop testing.
It is very important to provide sufficient test coverage and due attention to mobile application testing. Otherwise significant errors causing the application to hang or crash may appear after release.
Such software bugs may be difficult to reproduce if they are found in late phases of the development or in production. They may be called by certain combination of actions that is hard to repeat. The difficulty is determined by sensitiveness of the device. Accidental moves and taps can be interpreted as inputs. Lots of simultaneous inputs cause the device to hang.
So, it is very important for a mobile software product to distinguish and handle accidental inputs and provide clear error messages.
Nowadays there are many free and low-cost mobile software products. Users can download them from special stores. Such stores are created for widespread mobile platforms. If producers want to put their mobile software in a store and make it available for users they must make sure that their application corresponds to the requirements of the store they want to put it.
A software testing company recommends to consider the store requirements from the beginning of a development process. The application compliance to the store requirements should be checked in course of mobile testing.
If producers decide to adjust their mobile software product to the store demands at the late development phases or when the software is already in production, the adjustments may take much costs, time and efforts.
So, in order to make a development process efficient one should take into account all the factors and requirements that may influence the product functioning and distribution at the beginning of the process.
Nowadays smartphones and tablets support many different ways of inputting information. A user can interact with a mobile device through touch screen, gestures, moves of the device, voice commands. Besides a mobile device performs some processes regardless of what application is utilized.
A Mobile Device Always:
- determines its location;
- supports networking connection;
- adjusts brightness and orientation of the screen;
- performs other operations.
If a user works with several applications plus these processes are operating, the device may get overloaded, some software products may hang or crash. That is why mobile testing requires more attention to some issues that are not so important during web site testing or desktop testing.
It is very important to provide sufficient test coverage and due attention to mobile application testing. Otherwise significant errors causing the application to hang or crash may appear after release.
Such software bugs may be difficult to reproduce if they are found in late phases of the development or in production. They may be called by certain combination of actions that is hard to repeat. The difficulty is determined by sensitiveness of the device. Accidental moves and taps can be interpreted as inputs. Lots of simultaneous inputs cause the device to hang.
So, it is very important for a mobile software product to distinguish and handle accidental inputs and provide clear error messages.
Nowadays there are many free and low-cost mobile software products. Users can download them from special stores. Such stores are created for widespread mobile platforms. If producers want to put their mobile software in a store and make it available for users they must make sure that their application corresponds to the requirements of the store they want to put it.
A software testing company recommends to consider the store requirements from the beginning of a development process. The application compliance to the store requirements should be checked in course of mobile testing.
If producers decide to adjust their mobile software product to the store demands at the late development phases or when the software is already in production, the adjustments may take much costs, time and efforts.
So, in order to make a development process efficient one should take into account all the factors and requirements that may influence the product functioning and distribution at the beginning of the process.
