Mobile App Testing on Cloud ...............

1) Mobile App Testing on Cloud:

To test mobile applications use of the Cloud testing is one of the most successful choices. Using Cloud based approach you can achieve the Native and Hybrid Mobile Apps automation testing. This automation testing approach can be used when long-term automation testing is to be carried out over multi-platform and predefined set of devices. Cloud-based automated solutions are highly effective as they are offered as a unified package. Once the deployment is done on cloud lab then you just needed a connectivity to cloud lab to kick off you testing from anywhere.

Using Cloud based approach will reduce the time to setup the test environment which generally cause the project delays. The cloud provides a pre-configured, highly synchronized architecture, strong server configurations, licensing, and testing resources. As a result reduced time-to-market and augmented testing competence. So defects get rapidly reduce which may occurred due to the faulty configuration of test environments. It help to increase the quality of application.

One of the great advantages of cloud approach is the amount of scalability with real time results, which means defects can be analyzed while the tests are running.

2) Lab-based Approach:

In Lab-based automation testing you need to set up different tools in a testing environment and leverage simulators or physical devices to automate testing using different tools. In the market there are different capability tools are available for a lab-based approach like EggPlant, Jamo, See Test, ZAP and SilkTest etc. These automation tools can be used for continuous automation testing or to accomplish regression testing functionalities. Few of them also supports the non-functional testing features related to mobile apps.

3) Open Source/Platform-specific Tools:

In QA automation testing strategy the testing to check platform-specific tools reliability should be carried out at least once. There are different mobile testing tools available in the market like Appium, Calabash, Frank, MonkeyTalk, iOS UI Automation, Robotium, iOS-driver, Ui Automator, KeepItFunctional and Selendroid etc. But before starting testing on Open Source/Platform-specific Tools you should have added programming skills in your team. Also the mobile device simulators and emulators can be used for testing.

Advantages of Mobile Test Automation:

1. Same test scripts can be executed repeatable
2. Help to increase the testing efficiency
3. Help to enhanced the regression tests case execution
4. Multiple test cases can be executed with less time
5. Better utilization of time by running test script over 24/7 time.
6. Test scripts can be executed parallel on several devices at the same time.
7. Once the test scripts are ready, human resources do not require manual interruptions to execute the scripts.
8. Same test cases can be executed across different mobile platforms, so the scripting time can be minimized and same time can be used for more test coverage.

Conclusion:

In this article we conclude following few points:

We need to think of perfect automation strategy to execute a successful QA and helps to get mobile application on time and on budget.

We need to find the mobile testing automation tool which can help you to execute the same test script across platforms. As a result the scripting time can be minimized and same time can be used for more test coverage.

We need a mobile automation tool where you can configure a test setting for different device to test out the application over variety of connectivity modes.

Tool should be platform independent and allow you to create true end-to-end testing with a single test script possible.