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Yearly Archives: Knowledge CenterMay 2020

Benefits of having QA during the Product Design Phase
27 May, 2020

Benefits of having QA during the Product Design Phase

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Benefits of having Quality Assurance

Our planet has been moderately digitalized in the last two decades. Digital products and services can be seen in sprawling numbers across various verticals. Numerous companies are applying striking ways to utilize the latest technologies for generating value and revenue. With this gradual change, the testing workforce has also remodelled. The Quality Assurance process has started following a User Centric Approach these days and hence, Design QA is the latest trend that deserves a special mention.

What is Design QA?

Simply put, Design Quality Assurance is reviewing the product’s design to catch any errors or to improve the product’s design much before it is incorporated as an approved feature. Abundant font size or button styles introduced in every sprint can lead to Design Debt and working backwards. It is imperative that we make Design QA task as part of our workflow by checking the overall UX on different devices and going through the different design flows. The goal is to keep focusing on putting the user at the center and trimming the fat.

What is the difference between QA and Design QA?

All the Digital Products undergo different kinds of domain specific QA Testing. The product teams are usually more concerned about the errors or a break in the functionality that will lead to hindrance in the shipping of the product, but, on the other hand the issues specific to design should also be emphasized. It is an assumption that if the product is functioning well, that means there are no flaws in the design. However, that is not the case. Design QA is important to maintain consistency in the product. It is performed as per the user’s point of view, by discussing the requirements and eradicating the inconsistences.

Benefits of having Design QA during the Product Design Phase Itself

Adding Design QA to your process will ensure that a quality product is introduced in the market and is liked by the end users. Basically, it is an excellent way to advocate for your user. If Design QA is happening in parallel, it will lead to several benefits.

1. Appropriate interface is built for the Product

Imagine building a complete feature and then rolling it back to make certain UI changes. Here, if Design QA is a regular and early part of the process, then the complete UI will be scrutinized step by step, so that all the necessary changes/enhancements happen in one go before the feature deployment

2. Better efficiency in the Product Development tasks

As a Design QA, it is important that you voice your opinion during the verification process. This will not only improve the efficiency during the product development, but will also reduce the extensive number of iterations

3. Time Saviour

If the Design QA happens late in the game, it will become a cumbersome task for the developers, as they will have to rework on their code after Feature Deployment

4. Discovery of Issues at an Earlier Stage

If Design issues are jotted down in the early stage, it is quite possible that the Design QA team can uncover some unexpected issues sooner rather than later

5. Better Collaboration within the Team

The more the team members the better the communication and collaboration. By keeping the Design QA team in the loop will help in creating transparency and will help in building a great quality product

Where can we fit in Design QA?

Design QA as a mandatory process, should happen between the development and actual product testing.

Who should be doing Design QA?

As developers should not be testing their code, similarly it is recommended that UX designers should not be testing their design. It is important that QA Testing Vendor team tests both the design and functionality of the application, as they possess a distinct set of skills and have a broader knowledge of the application. They can anticipate how a user would judge a product and it’s design. They understand how the users truly use an application.

By articulating your knowledge and ideas with the development team and the UX designers, Design QA can help in shipping out an extraordinary product in the market. It looks like an additional step to the regular QA and Testing Services, but this additional step will be a turning point in your product’s future.

Digital Accessibility – A Real Need of the Day
26 May, 2020

Digital Accessibility – A Real Need of the Day

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Over the last few years, we at QA InfoTech, have been observing GAAD – Global Accessibility Awareness Day, annually every May. While we make it a conscious effort to observe GAAD all through the year and sensitize the need for Digital Accessibility both within the organization and in the society we largely operate within, the annual GAAD event has been special – right from talks, to special booths, to free workshops for PwDs on software testing etc.

This year, 2020, we wanted to make the event extra special and memorable, given the global pandemic, which has thrown a lot of light on the need for digital accessibility and has enabled organizations move into the path of both physical and digital accessibility, given that everyone is challenged today.

Given this unprecedented scenario, we wanted global representation on this topic of “Digital Accessibility – A Real Need of the Day” and the best way to achieve this was through a panel discussion. As advertised previously, we had a very excited set of panellists that immediately signed up to join us on this event, right from digital subject matter experts, to governmental policy advocates, sport personalities, real users that are PwDs etc. It was a very exciting and packed one hour discussion with the 6 panelists (and 1 that joined us in absentia through a video recording), touching upon a range of questions – including impact of COVID-19 on real users, tips and experiences on where to start to embrace digital accessibility, how large scale app roll outs (including ones such as Aarogya Setu taken up by Govt. of India) can reliably accommodate accessibility upfront, innovation in the coming days, and an overall take on the present and future of Digital Accessibility. A number of questions were also taken in from the attendees touching on PwD statistics, engineering spend on accessibility to name a few. This session is a start in bringing together global subject matter experts as we all work together to make digital accessibility a global reality – it is not a need of just our friends with disabilities. It is time to understand, accept and implement digital accessibility as a true need of the hour for one and all. The entire panel discussion’s recording is available here.

Panellists:

  • Dr. Anjlee Agarwal, National Awardee, 2003, Accessibility, Mobility and WASH Specialist, Samarthyam, Co-Founder & Executive Director
  • Manasi Joshi, Para Badminton Player, National Award for Best Sportsperson with Disability (Female), 2019
  • Kurt Gerdenich, CTO, Vista Higher Learning
  • Dennis Quon, Director Document Accessibility Solutions, Crawford Technologies
  • Deb Castiglione, Former Director, Universal Design & Accessibility, Cengage
  • Rajini Padmanaban, Vice President, Global Testing Services, QA InfoTech
  • Ankush Garg, CPWA, Accessibility Expert and Low Vision User, QA InfoTech

Moderator:

  • Chris Morgan – President, WeBuildLearning

Best Practices for Management of Test Data
26 May, 2020

Best Practices for Management of Test Data

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Best Practices for Management of Test Data

Throughout the testing and development phase of a software product, a lot of test data is created and consumed. With the widespread adoption of Agile methodologies in Software development comes multiple and frequent releases. This, in turn, also increases the creation and consumption of more test data during QA and testing services. Developers like to keep databases and stored procedures of test environments in sync with Production. Sync has the threat of exposing end-user data to the test environments thereby increasing the chances of violation of information security.

Following are some of the practices that may be implemented to maintain the integrity of data:

1. Recognize your Sensitive Data

The term ‘sensitive’ may have a different meaning in different domains and geo-locations. However, it is good practice to consider any data from end users as sensitive. As a tester, we should best not use any production data collected from the end-user. For such testing purposes, it is imperative that we create mock or dummy test data.

2. Append or Mask your Data

All data earmarked as sensitive or confidential must be masked or appended or obfuscated in a way such that it abides by Information security standards of its geolocation. However, this process should be done in such a way that the validity of the test data is not hampered. For example, obfuscation of say Zip code should not lead to invalid data being used. Else, the purpose of testing would fail. On top of that, it is a good practice to use appended test data while creation of data.

3. Use Test Management Tools to Record Usage of Data in Test

Test management tools not only help to organize and manage your Test Suites, but also help record and control the usage of test data. Cucumber is one of the most popular BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) tools for test management and it supports test data recording.

4. Regularly Purge Data created for Test

It is a security risk to keep test data and test accounts active after being used. This is most notable in the Production environment. Anyone getting illicit access of these test accounts can exploit the system and worse can expose its vulnerabilities. Test accounts are also more vulnerable to cyber-attacks such as brute-force attack. Therefore, it is always a good practice to regularly purge all test accounts and test data once they are used for testing and are no longer required.

5. Automate Flows of Creation of Test Data

This is in follow-up with the above practice of regularly purging data. Creation of test data should not take up a bulk of a test engineer’s time and creating test data manually definitely does so. This becomes even more acute when you are regularly deleting your test data. Therefore, to save time, extraction and creation of test data should be automated. For running Automated Software Testing scripts, test data should be dynamic and created at run-time. For manual scripts, test data should be extracted or created through API scripts or through SQL stored procedures. This would greatly enhance the efficacy of testing.

It is important to note that above are suggested practices only and it’s not a one-size-fits-all scenario. Some projects may have workflows which would prohibit usage of these practices. In that case, it is necessary to learn the reasoning behind those workflows and what is being done to secure the integrity of test data. At the end of the day, data privacy is the responsibility of the whole team and it should be considered seriously.

Why QA is Crucial for Executing DevOps
25 May, 2020

Why QA is Crucial for Executing DevOps

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Test Automation and DevOps

Speed-to-quality has become a norm in the software development industry. To achieve faster-time-to-market with greater accuracy, organizations are leveraging DevOps. The primary objective of adopting DevOps methodology is to closely integrate the process of development and software testing to enable faster release cycles.

To meet the ever-evolving demand of customers, DevOps is enabling businesses to release real-time updates through continuous testing, continuous development, and continuous delivery/ deployment. With accelerated digital transformation initiatives and the need to deliver round the clock service to the customer, organizations are becoming more dependent on efficient QA to achieve customer satisfaction.

Why is QA Crucial?

Unlike the traditional approach where all the quality checks typically came in at the end, DevOps ensures quality throughout the development and delivery cycle. QA is deeply embedded in the development and testing process to ensure flawless delivery.

In a traditional scenario, the QA team gets a build that is deployed in the required environment for regression and functional testing. However, all these steps change in DevOps.

Here is how:

  • QA teams are required to align efforts with core development in the DevOps cycle
  • Ensure all the test cases are automated and capable of achieving almost 100 percent test coverage
  • Make sure that the test environment is standardized and the deployment on QA boxes is automated
  • Automated cleanups and pretesting tasks are aligned with the Continuous Integration Cycle

To enable DevOps, QA and development teams are required to have seamless coordination between all the functions of the delivery chain. As a result, boundaries get blurry among different roles. DevOps encourages all stakeholders to contribute to the delivery chain. Hence, a developer is able to configure deployment, and deployment engineers are enabled to add test cases to the QA repository.

Test Automation and DevOps

To achieve greater speed and agility, it becomes crucial to automate the tests and configure them to start running automatically after the deployment is complete in the QA environment. QA teams leverage continuous integration tools and specialized automation tools to achieve such a level of integration. 

To support DevOps and achieve uncompromised quality at a faster pace, organizations need to have a robust automation testing framework that is capable of instantly scripting new test cases.

Here is the sample efficient DevOps testing strategy:

  • Identify the test cases required to be executed for the specific build
  • Go for a lean test execution
  • QA and Dev teams should work closely to earmark the areas affected by a particular build and execute related test cases including sanity test pass
  • Execute configuration of specialized code analysis and test coverage tools to ensure 100 percent code coverage
  • Formalize the strategy to test new features, supply interim builds to the QA who would write test scripts and execute automation tests until the code is stable and deployment worthy in the production environment
  • Standardize all the required testing environments and automate the deployments
  • QA should be able to run automation tests through cross platforms and multiple browsers environments
  • Parallel execution of tests to reduce time-to-market
  • Create exit criteria for each test run to ensure a go/no-go decision to production can be taken instantly after the test results
  • Ensure reporting and fixing of blockers or critical bugs. Pass them through the same steps before the deployment in the production environment

Monitor Applications

In DevOps, it becomes imperative for QA teams to detect and report bugs early. To achieve this efficiency, you need to set up a monitoring framework for the production environment that is capable of detecting bugs before they cripple the application.

QA teams need to set up specialized counters including CPU utilization, response time, and memory among others to get actionable insights from the customer experience. 

Let us take an example here for better understanding:

For instance, if the average response time on the login form is continuously increasing for various builds then QA should be able to proactively report the issue for better optimization of the login code. Failing to do so could lead frustrated customers to abandon the application due to higher response time.

QA teams can also periodically execute small subsets of already available test cases of high priority in the production environment to monitor the environment. This will enable test engineers to identify and fix bugs like “Cannot Reproduce” and “This bug appears sometimes” to make the application more stable and achieve greater customer satisfaction.

However, you need to configure these monitors to run automatically with rich reporting including screenshots of failure and logs among others.

Cultural Shift

In a nutshell, DevOps is synonymous with keeping the application deployable all the time while working on new updates/ features. It demands a cultural shift for all stakeholders and works closely to achieve a common goal of enabling reliable, nimble, and repeatable processes. It encourages operations and development teams to work as a single unit to achieve greater business value across the IT value chain.

For efficient DevOps projects, QA teams need to gain expertise in various continuous integration and automation tools to ensure automation efforts are lean and able to add value. Moving forward, more automation will become the core of every successful DevOps cycle. However, QA teams need to be vigilant and decide a limit to automation to ensure uncompromised quality.

Cybersecurity Consciousness during COVID-19
11 May, 2020

Cybersecurity Consciousness during COVID-19

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Cybersecurity Consciousness during COVID-19

The COVID-19 situation is unique and hopefully once in a lifetime for all of us. As we all deal with it across the globe—medically, economically, and professionally—there are plenty of lessons to discover. There is also a lot to learn when it comes to cybersecurity.

Even organizations that have strictly advocated against working from home are now having to consider enacting a remote presence in order to maintain business continuity. IT teams are overwhelmed in ensuring remote setups work not just from functional and performance standpoints, but also from a security standpoint.

Any small vulnerability gives enough entryway for hackers to attempt to break into our systems, even in digitally savvy countries like the US. And with the confusing and ever-changing situations people are now in globally, it’s prime time for bad actors to explore all possible combinations of attacks. Even leading products and platforms are not immune to security hacks.

As we all try to figure out what our “new normal” is going to look like, for the time being there are things we can do to be cautious in safeguarding our personal and professional IP and assets.

At a minimum, how you connect to your professional network is important, as is the device you use. If you’re relying on a personal device, ensure it is completed patched and secure. In most cases an official work laptop is already patched, but it never hurts to get it double-checked with your organization’s IT team.

Be aware of any unsolicited calls and emails with attachments, especially ones that look real with domains of well-known organizations. If any such official communication needs to come in, it would be from that IT team, not from individual sources.

There is also currently a lot of crowdfunding happening to support global organizations in the drive to assist impacted people. Watch for trusted sources, and do your research so you don’t fall prey to phony solicitations.

Watch for scenarios where actions on your screen are self-driven—for example, if your mouse starts performing actions on its own—as this indicates that someone may have taken control of your device. If you notice this, immediately disconnect from the network and reach out to your IT team.

The above scenarios may sound basic, but they are all being leveraged by hackers around the world to take advantage of people’s anxiety. With all the uncertainty and nervousness, people are more perceptible to malicious attempts such as phishing scams.

IT teams have been working to ensure safe environments as we all move to working from home, but it’s important that we do our parts too. With basic levels of due diligence—especially around network connectivity, being aware of what messages we forward and process, vetting attachments, periodically changing passwords, and putting security ahead of convenience—we can make cybercrime one fewer thing we have to worry about right now.

Reposted from the original article QA InfoTech wrote for TechWell.

Testers Must Use Team Connections to Enable Quality
09 May, 2020

Testers Must Use Team Connections to Enable Quality

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Use Team Connections to Enable Quality

Quality engineering is ever evolving. Part of this evolution is the need for a quality professional’s role to change in the agile world. Rather than being mere quality assurance or quality conformance players, it’s important for testers on an engineering team to be true enablers of quality.

Whatever tide the quality discipline may ride, the quality team has the greatest reach in its visibility and ability to connect with all other engineering and non-engineering teams. For a tester to realize their fullest potential, they need to acknowledge and leverage this reach, going above and beyond the call of duty.

Traditionally, a tester has always been an end-user advocate. In this role, the tester represents the end-user’s expectations for a given product and has a good connection with them, next only to the business team. This is a valuable relationship that the tester can learn from and contribute to.

Within the engineering team, the tester should have a tightly coupled relationship with developers. As quality shifts left and paired engineering efforts become more prevalent, testers often work hand in glove with developers, and they should make the effort to build a solid collaboration in this relationship.

On the other end of the spectrum, the tester has strong ties with the Ops team, too. Whether it’s through deployment-related discussions, engineering for continuous quality to ensure Ops is able to debug issues, or enabling them to take up the first round of triaging and troubleshooting in a support process, testers have a long-standing relationship with Ops.

As we step out of the engineering purview, testers have more conversations with business teams today than they used to. Both use analytics to understand the market, users, and competition among other brands. There is a lot of knowledge share that can happen between these two groups to benefit the product under development. We have had teams where the business side even looks at the tests that the quality team writes in behaviour-driven development format.

In the pursuit to optimize development, testers also are closely working with designers to give design input, especially in areas such as usability and accessibility, which can save subsequent re-engineering efforts. Given the inherent curious and user-focused nature of a tester’s mindset, ideas for new features, enhancements, and suggestions from the quality team are usually welcomed by the stakeholders.

The quality team has extensive visibility and reach, and there is also widespread acceptance about the importance of enabling quality. There is a global awareness about what the repercussions could be if something critical goes untested.

Given this conducive environment, quality enablers should understand that our connections are the most far-reaching and valuable. We should make the best use of them for the benefit of the product, the team, and our own professional growth!

Reposted from the original article QA InfoTech wrote for TechWell.

Salesforce App Development – Balance Performance With end to end Functionality Testing
08 May, 2020

Salesforce App Development – Balance Performance With end to end Functionality Testing

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Salesforce App Development

Salesforce app development allows you to provide a consistent UX of your product offerings or services. Salesforce is the most recognized platform that allows businesses of all sizes to develop apps that allows you to engage better with customers and get deeper insights into customer journeys. 

Custom app development is a preferred strategy for creating apps that are both visually appealing and allows you to connect better with your users. This guide introduces you to the nuances of Salesforce application development and how to balance performance through end-to-end functionality testing.

Types of Salesforce Apps

There are different types of Salesforce apps depending on their applications. Some of the business needs that can be addressed include improvement or transformation of your sales, customer service, and marketing processes. 

However, there are 2 main categories of custom Salesforce app development:

  • Complex Apps: Such apps add significant functionality to the CRM platform. Such applications address the needs in the improvement or transformation of internal business processes that may not be addressed through regular functionality.
  • Small & Simple Apps: Such apps are designed as solutions for specific tasks such as lead assignment and document generation.

Approach to Salesforce App Development

Some of the facets to Salesforce app development include the following:

  • Project management of custom apps for internal use
  • Project management of custom apps for AppExchange
  • Needs-based delivery models
  • Quality focus
  • Long-term improvement, evolution, and support
  • Providing reasonable costs
  • Flexibility in the project timeline

What is Salesforce App Testing?

Among other benefits, Salesforce makes it easier to customize its features to address your business’ needs. Salesforce testing allows you to validate the customization and configuration performed within your app. The key challenge is checking the customized code compared to testing the built-in Salesforce functionality.

Reasons for Salesforce Testing

There are many reasons for performing Salesforce app development testing. Some of the most notable ones are as follows:

  • Helps check the configuration and functionality of the code
  • You can verify that the app supports the desired business processes
  • You can ascertain that the initial build meets the planned requirement
  • You can catch issues early when they are easier to fix
  • Check the behavior and working condition of the application
  • The functional flows report helps learn about the app’s functionality
  • Workflows help check the functionality of time-based events

Salesforce Testing – Best Practices

There are a number of best practices that Salesforce development teams should keep in mind before undertaking Salesforce app development testing. When it comes to unit testing, you can write the test cases code before, after, or during the main code writing process. It is important to make it a part of the code-writing process. When adding new functionality, it is recommended to update the unit test cases to include tests for the revised functionality.

It is crucial that test code and functionality code are reviewed similarly. Doing this separately is a common error by developers. 

It is recommended to follow these Salesforce app testing best practices:

i. Test During SDLC

Testing should start during SDLC. The QA team should be involved from the very start. The advantages include:

  • Better understanding of requirements
  • More affordable prediction of future issues
  • Lesser chance of having a shorter time for testing
  • Testing/QA team will be able to increase test coverage and types of tests

ii. Using Right Tools

There are many Salesforce app development testing tools. You should choose the proper tools that make it easy to manage a critical project. When it comes to functionality testing, both Android and Apple provide simulators to test on. Besides, Selenium is also an excellent tool for test automation.

iii. Project Summary

Make sure there is a brief project summary and testing guide. This will help in saving valuable time. It will also provide clarity about the background of the project, its purpose, and the features that need to be tested.

iv. Select the Right Testers

Conducting Salesforce app development testing requires in-depth expertise and experience. When it comes to UAT and regression testing, it is important to select the right tester having vast experience in UAT/regression tests.

v. Walkthrough Sessions

When the testing team has been initiated from the early phase of the project, they will have ample time to enhance the test coverage. Once the test cases have been prepared, make sure to have a walkthrough session. This should allow the test cases author to describe the cases to all the stakeholders. When test cases are shared with the development team prior to the implementation phase, it helps assess any issues in the code.

Types of Salesforce App Testing

There are two main types of app testing options for Salesforce app development:

  • Manual Testing: This type of testing uses traditional methods. Your QA team can use this method to run functional testing, integration testing, happy path testing, system testing, and regression testing.
  • Automated Testing: This involves the use of a program for testing the app. Examples of tools that facilitate automated testing include Selenium, QTP, Cucumber, Workday, and Assure Click among others.

Salesforce App Testing Levels

The different Salesforce app development testing levels are as follows:

i. Unit Testing

  • Apex developers perform unit testing. Code is written with clauses that automatically conduct tests on the coverage.
  • You will be able to assess the records of data that get affected. This helps ensure the code runs effectively in the environment.
  • Apex code deployment into the production environment requires at least a 78% code coverage ratio.

ii. System Testing

An experienced team of Salesforce consultants will conduct system testing during Salesforce app development. 

  • The technical processes get tested from start to finish and runs test scripts depending on the outputs
  • You can troubleshoot issues using automated rules within the system such as validation, workflow, and assignment

iii. UAT Testing

This type of app testing will be performed at the user level. It involves the following components:

  • Helps to test the app’s capability in supporting business processes
  • The output requires client confirmation about the system’s usefulness
  • It follows the test script depending on the business processes

iv. Production Testing

This level in Salesforce app development testing repeats the system testing process within the production environment. 

  • You can test the correct deployment of config and code from sandbox to production environment
  • The client can check the UAT scripts once again before deployment

v. Regression Testing

The goal of this level of testing is to ensure the config and code releases affect current system users’ processes. This testing runs when a fix or update has been deployed in production. During this level, users can mark the changes that may affect current processes.

Salesforce App Automated Testing

Automation testing is important and it cannot be taken out of the picture. You should know that most configurations get tested using automation testing scripts. There are many advantages of automated testing, including the following:

  • Reliability: The tests are processed precisely the same way every time they are run
  • Scalability: Automation testing can be scaled for all types of scenarios. You can run the same testing processes as many times as you want to test various scenarios. You may conduct load testing to check the app’s performance under various conditions.
  • Quality: The increase in code coverage allows you to increase the number of tested functionalities. This helps enhance the quality of the delivery.
  • Versatility: Automated Salesforce app development testing can cover different devices and operating systems.
  • Cost-Effective: Once a script is written, there is no need to rely on resources to run different types of tests. The script can be run on multiple applications.

Features of Automated Testing

Some of the main features of automated Salesforce app development testing are as follows:

i. AI-Based Automated Testing

  • Create resilient tests that don’t break with any app changes
  • Significant reduction in test development and efforts for maintenance
  • Reduction in false positives and increased reliability on test results
  • Prevent flaky tests and the requirement of redundant test runs

ii. High Efficiency of SaaS

When you use automated testing, there is no need to set up, update, or maintain software. 

  • No more issues related to lost automation code or non-checked-in code
  • Backward compatibility and automatic updates
  • Allow distributed teams to work using a single codebase

iii. Scriptless Testing

Automated testing can be conducted by QA teams and Subject Matter Experts, not just programmers. 

  • You can develop test automation without the need for getting into programming
  • Simulate complex, loop-free test workflows, control flow commands, and conditional statements
  • Automate dynamic user interface and dynamic content

iv. Cloud Scalability

You can get faster results by scaling Salesforce app development tests on the Cloud. 

  • Prevent the need for building/maintaining testing infrastructure
  • Secure connection with apps behind public/private Clouds or corporate firewalls
  • Support for a larger combination of devices and operating systems

v. Cross-Browser/Device Testing

Automated testing allows you to test UX on thousands of testing platforms. You can run tests on thousands of combinations of devices, operating systems, browsers, and resolutions. Tests could be run on real emulators and real mobile devices. You can get secure access to apps and databases protected by firewalls. 

vi. Performance Testing

  • Measure the performance of apps under transaction/user loads
  • Assess online/download key metrics such as response time and errors
  • Locate performance bottlenecks instantly
  • Use comparison reports to track time-based trends from multiple builds

Thus, there are many advantages of using Salesforce app development automated testing. You can run native app tests, API testing, get actionable analytics, DevOps integration, run data-driven testing, and much more.

Top 5 Robust Tools for Mobile App Testing
06 May, 2020

Top 5 Robust Tools for Mobile App Testing

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Top 5 Mobile App Testing Tools

Mobile app testing is a critical part of your product’s lifecycle. It is essential for ensuring proper functioning and performance, UI and UX usability, increasing customer loyalty, and driving higher revenues. 

When it comes to Mobile Apps Testing, there are many testing tools that are cost-effective and flexible. Explore the top 5 app testing tools that you should consider using in your testing environment.

1. Appium

Appium is a free, open-source test automation framework designed for native, mobile web, and hybrid app testing. It is a cross-platform app that is compatible with a wide range of Linux distributions, Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows versions. 

The tool supports all web driver compatible languages such as Python, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and C# among others.

It allows writing tests for multiple platforms with the help of the same API. Thus, code can be reused.

Appium was designed and developed to address mobile automation requirements based on the following philosophy:

  • There will be no need to recompile or modify the app to automate it
  • There should be no restriction to use a certain language/framework for writing and running tests
  • The ideal mobile automation formwork needs to be open source in every way and need not reinvent the wheel with regard to automation APIs

Apium is fundamentally a webserver exposing a REST API. It can receive connections from clients, listen to commands, run them on mobile devices, and create an HTTP response with the result of the execution. It is a server developed in Node.js and can be built/installed from source or directly installed from NPM.

The client libraries in Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, C#, and JavaScript supports its extensions to the WebDriver protocol.

2. TestComplete:

TestComplete is a UI automation testing tool that allows you to create, maintain, and execute test cases for not just mobile apps, but also for desktop and web. It is compatible with both Android and iOS platforms and provides real-time information on tests. It is not an open-source, free  Mobile Apps Testing tool though it is compatible with a wide range of technologies including .NET, Visual C++, WPF, C++Builder, Visual Basic, and Java among others.

This app testing tool is focused on both unit and functional testing. This Mobile Apps Testing tool offers excellent support for daily regression testing and other forms of testing, including distributed and data-driven testing among others.

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Tests can be created through recording or editing test commands within panels/editors. It is possible to run tests from inside TestComplete or you can export tests to external applications and run from there.

This tool recognizes objects/controls within tested apps and provides special commands to simulate user actions. It also provides certain checkpoints for easy verification of the app’s state during test runtime. 

TestComplete supports several technologies including .Net, Java, C++Builder, HTML5, Delphi, Visual Basic, Silverlight Desktop, Flex, and Flash among others. It is to be noted here that the app testing tool is only compatible with Windows unlike its counterparts like Appium.  It allows you to develop test cases in a wide range of scripting languages including Python, JavaScript, Delphi Script, and VBScript among others. 

Some of the key test automation capabilities of this Mobile Apps Testing tool are as follows:

  • Keyword Testing: The built-in keyword-based test editor helps testers easily create keyword-based frameworks
  • Test Record & Playback: It offers a basic system of record and playback to record test cases and modify them with ease
  • Scripted Testing: It allows you to create test scripts from the ground up or modify recorded tests within a built-in editor
  • Data-Based Testing: It makes data extraction from database tables, CSV files, and Excel sheets, much easier.
  • Integrate with Bug Tracking Apps: TestComplete can integrate with a wide range of bug-tracking applications.
  • Test Visualizer: This Mobile Apps Testing tool can capture screenshots during testing. This allows you to differentiate between actual and expected screens.

TestComplete is available in free trial version and with multiple licenses. However, it is important to take into consideration that the license cost is quite high for TestComplete and since it is not an open source testing tool, one cannot find much help available through open communities. 

3. Kobiton

Kobiton is a mobile cloud platform for both automated and manual testing. This Mobile Apps Testing tool is compatible with both Android and iOS platforms. The latest DevOps/Quality environments make it essential for apps to be tested on hundreds of OS, devices, and browser combinations. 

Kobiton supports instant real devices provisioning for testing using manual/automated scripts. It also enables plugging-in latest on-premise devices to create a holistic testing cloud.

Key Features

Some of the key features of this Mobile Apps Testing tool are as follows:

Capabilities

  • It allows you to run tests on real devices, as and when required
  • It allows you to run a full device lab having local on-premise devices, and public/private cloud devices.
  • It supports instant health check for apps across more than 350 devices.

Performance

  • Test all gestures on a real device
  • Optimal responsiveness and performance allows testing just like the device is in hand
  • Devices can be booted and apps loaded faster than other device platforms

Custom Test Cloud

  • The Device Lab Management feature allows easy connection of internal devices. This enables creation of own Local test cloud.
  • This Mobile Apps Testing tool allows scaling the testing capacity and customizing mobile test cloud. This is enabled through the combination of internal devices and Kobiton cloud devices.
  • It supports centralized testing activity that can be shared across locations and teams. DLM helps boost your team’s collaboration and efficiency.

Some of the other key features of Kobiton include rich test logs, automatic capture, historical results, easy log access, agile test enabling, and optimized efficiency among others. This testing tool supports scriptless test automation for continual testing at scale.

4. Calabash

Calabash is an open-source automation testing tool that is available for free. It is compatible with both Android and native iOS apps. It supports separate libraries for the mobile OS platforms. 

This Mobile Apps Testing tool is a test automation framework developed by the Xamarin team. 

However, Xamarian withdrew its support from Calabash recently. It no longer supports the app testing tool in their Test Cloud post iOS 11.

Calabash allows you to write and run automated acceptance tests for apps. Acceptance tests are run after system tests and help determine if the app meets the business requirements. Calabash operates at the UI level and is a preferred UI testing automation framework. 

This testing tool stands out for supporting Cucumber. 

The tool comprises libraries capable of interacting with iOS and Android apps. You can run it on real devices. It works with all Ruby-based test frameworks. 

Benefits

Some of the key advantages of using this app testing tool are as follows:

  • Uniform UI for Different Platforms: It is possible to maintain only a single Feature file per app use-case, when developing for both iOS and Android. The single UI also helps in overcoming cost.
  • Cucumber: Calabash uses Cucumber technology. This allows feature files to be written by domain experts, QA engineers, and developers.
  • Devices: This Mobile Apps Testing tool allows you to run scripts on physical devices and simulators. It is also possible to run test cases simultaneously on different devices.
  • Complex Features: It supports complex features like gestures (swipe, rotation, pinch and more).

5. Robotium

Robotium is an Android app testing tool that runs automated test cases for both hybrid and native applications. This open-source framework allows you to easily write robust and powerful automatic UI tests. It allows you to write system, function, and acceptance test scenarios across different Android features and functions.

Benefits

Some of the key benefits of using this Mobile Apps Testing tool are as follows:

  • Develop powerful test cases without much knowledge of the app being tested
  • Requires minimal time for writing solid test cases
  • Capable of handling multiple Android activities automatically
  • Robust test cases because the run-time binds to GUI components
  • Significantly improves test cases in comparison to standard instrumentation tests
  • Executes very fast test cases
  • Allows running test cases on pre-installed apps
  • Integrates seamlessly with Ant/Maven/Gradle to run tests with continuous integration

There are many more benefits to using this Mobile Apps Testing tool. It can automatically follow current activity and captures screenshots. 

It is important to know that Robotium is capable of handling only a single application at a given time. Moreover, it cannot handle Flash or Web components. Another important limitation of the app testing tool is that it cannot interact with status bar notification. 

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Also Read: Advanced Mobile App Testing Trends Driving Innovation and Efficiency

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In summary, there are 5 top Mobile Apps Testing tools you can use. Today, mobile apps play a key role in digital transformation across different industries. There are many alternatives available in the market and factors like functional issues, poor UX, or poor performance can easily send away your users. This makes it essential to run app tests to ensure that your product meets the highest in quality standards. 

It is recommended to consider an app testing tool based on key differentiators such as test optimization according to the mobile device market and testing capability across multiple OS and devices.

Before you start any testing process, it is recommended to check the basic requirements and conditions associated with the tool. These requirements should guide you in generating optimal results. Make sure to cross-check all the prerequisites before running the tests. This will help both testers and developers save valuable time. This also helps ensure that the process gets completed without any issues or challenges. 

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