Hands-On Mobile App Testing : A Guide for Mobile Testers and Anyone Involved in the Mobile App Business

The First Complete Guide to Mobile App Testing and Quality Assurance: Start-to-Finish Testing Solutions for Both Android and iOS Today, mobile apps must meet rigorous standards of reliability, usability, security, and performance. However, many mobile developers have limited testing experience, and mobile platforms raise new challenges even for long-time testers. Now, Hands-On Mobile App Testing provides the solution: an end-to-end blueprint for thoroughly testing any iOS or Android mobile app. Reflecting his extensive real-life experience, Daniel Knott offers practical guidance on everything from mobile test planning to automation. He provides expert insights on mobile-centric issues, such as testing sensor inputs, battery usage, and hybrid apps, as well as advice on coping with device and platform fragmentation, and more. If you want top-quality apps as much as your users do, this guide will help you deliver them. You’ll find it invaluable–whether you’re part of a large development team or you are the team. Learn how to Establish your optimal mobile test and launch strategy Create tests that reflect your customers, data networks, devices, and business models Choose and implement the best Android and iOS testing tools Automate testing while ensuring comprehensive coverage Master both functional and nonfunctional approaches to testing Address mobile’s rapid release cycles Test on emulators, simulators, and actual devices Test native, hybrid, and Web mobile apps Gain value from crowd and cloud testing (and understand their limitations) Test database access and local storage Drive value from testing throughout your app lifecycle Start testing wearables, connected homes/cars, and Internet of Things devices **The First Complete Guide to Mobile App Testing and Quality Assurance: Start-to-Finish Testing Solutions for Both Android and iOS** Today, mobile apps must meet rigorous standards of reliability, usability, security, and performance. However, many mobile developers have limited testing experience, and mobile platforms raise new challenges even for long-time testers. Now, **__Hands-On Mobile App Testing__** provides the solution: an end-to-end blueprint for thoroughly testing any iOS or Android mobile app. Reflecting his extensive real-life experience, Daniel Knott offers practical guidance on everything from mobile test planning to automation. He provides expert insights on mobile-centric issues, such as testing sensor inputs, battery usage, and hybrid apps, as well as advice on coping with device and platform fragmentation, and more. If you want top-quality apps as much as your users do, this guide will help you deliver them. You’ll find it invaluable–whether you’re part of a large development team or you are the team. Learn how to * Establish your optimal mobile test and launch strategy * Create tests that reflect your customers, data networks, devices, and business models * Choose and implement the best Android and iOS testing tools * Automate testing while ensuring comprehensive coverage * Master both functional and nonfunctional approaches to testing * Address mobile’s rapid release cycles * Test on emulators, simulators, and actual devices * Test native, hybrid, and Web mobile apps * Gain value from crowd and cloud testing (and understand their limitations) * Test database access and local storage * Drive value from testing throughout your app lifecycle * Start testing wearables, connected homes/cars, and Internet of Things devices This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Over 2,000,000 mobile apps appear in the most popular app stores alone. But are they reliable? Usable? Secure? Far too many mobile apps aren't. As they become increasingly mission-critical to businesses as well as consumers, this must change. But mobile testing and QA demands strategies and skills that are very different from traditional software testing. Software testers must adapt to a whole new world. This book will help them do so. Pioneering software test manager Daniel Knott explains exactly what's different about mobile testing, offers a complete blueprint for testing mobile apps on each leading platform, and offers practical guidance on everything from tool selection to automation. You'll discover how to: Test diverse app types running on diverse hardware and networks Streamline and automate as much testing as possible, while ensuring comprehensive test coverage Choose the right test automation tool for your Android, iOS or other mobile environment Manage testing for rapid mobile release cycles Test native, hybrid, and web mobile apps Reflect the impact of freemium, paid, and transactional business models in your testing processes Test app performance associated with sensors, interfaces, and battery usage Test on emulators, simulators, and actual devices Test mobile functionality, security, usability, and accessibility Test database access and local storage Drive value from testing throughout the app lifecycle, include the update process Continually improve your mobile testing skills Prepare for testing wearables and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices