Mobile Testing, Agile Methodologies & You!

Mobile Testing, Agile

Methodologies & You!

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Today’s Presenters

William Anderson

Go2Group

Alan Trefzger

Today’s Agenda

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Mobile Testing

• Mobile Current Market Situation, Trends

• Mobile Application Challenges • Mobile QA

• Issues and solutions

Current Situation, Trends

• 100 Android devices released in 2011 • 428 Million Mobile Communication

Devices Sold Worldwide in Q1 2011

• More manufacturers, carriers, and 3rd

party application aggregators will join the competition

Global Smartphone

Penetration (by OS)

Smartphone

Penetration

Lots of Opportunity

• Lot of competition

• Quality and especially usability both more than ever take a front seat for user

acceptance and usage

• Low usability and / or low quality applications may be only used once

• If the user cannot learn how to intuitively use in 30 seconds, forget it

Mobile Testing

• Mobile Current Market Situation, Trends

• Mobile Application Challenges

• Mobile QA

• Issues and solutions

Mobile App Challenges

• Limited display areas, miniature

keyboards, less processing power and memory capacity

• Battery-power usage

• Lower bandwidth (but increasing)

• Proliferated mobile platform/OS combos • Differences for the same application from

Mobile Networks and

Feature Implementation

Mobile OS Features

Mobile Testing

• Mobile Current Market Situation, Trends • Mobile Application Challenges

• Mobile QA

• Issues and solutions

Mobile Testing Types

and Peculiarities

• Testing

• Functional Testing

• User Interface or Usability Testing

• Performance, Stress Testing, Compatibility Testing • Publishing Compliance Testing

• Interruption Testing 

• Negative Network Testing

• Peculiarities

Choosing A Mobile

Mobile QA Issues

• Proliferation of devices, networks, OS

• Costs and complications

• Manual testing is easier yet more difficult: environment proliferation and replication

• Performance bottlenecks difficult to pinpoint • Limits of automation tools

Mobile QA Issues

and Solutions

• Issue: Different tools to cover different test cases can be overwhelming and

complicated to track results

• For instance, use adb (Android Debug Bridge) to test application installation on android mobile, and use another tool to do automation test against

mobile application

• Tools need to be manually switched from one to another

Solution: Android

Debug Bridge

• Use Windows framework to integrate tools

• Develop a script or a batch file to trigger different tools using the windows command line

• Build a mobile automation framework (based on

Windows API as previous means); call different tools with certain sequence; interval time between two calls • Can test application installation, application itself,

un-installation with one executable file

• Example: Test browser installation, functions, un-installation in 1 run, with Windows API &

Issue: Agile Project,

with Changing UI Styles

• Under time pressure, test task is intensive in the final phase of a release

• Solution: Prototype or UI design with fixed element ID or position is provided to testers

• Application is learned by testers, test tools in advance • Tester can develop automation test easily with tool

based on the prototype/design

• Apply test in various platforms or configurations, saving manual testing time

Mobile QA

Issues & Solutions

• Issue: Configuration management for Apple applications via App Store

• Solution: App Store has version control

• New downloads get the latest version

• Old users are prompted to upgrade via app store • Incompatible versions are forced to upgrade

• Users forced to have either most recent, or a compatible version

Mobile QA

Issues & Solutions

• When to test an actual device?

• UI

• Location • Multimedia

Mobile Testing

• Mobile Current Market Situation, Trends • Mobile Application Challenges

• Mobile QA

• Issues and solutions

Case Study

Mobile Devices & Speed

• Please contact XBOSoft for more details!

Summary

• Mobile QA requires an adapted strategy

• Decompose where you can in order to gain efficiencies

• Manual testing and real devices are still necessary

• But needs can be reduced through selective automation and environment simulation

3 Steps to

Agile Success!

• Fundamental understanding • Which methodology?

Fundamental

Understanding

• Why the need for agile? • Who benefits from agile? • Is it just one-and-done?

Which Methodology Is

Right For You?

• There are many!

• Benchmark, measure, discover • Likely a hybrid approach is best

Find the

Right Tools!

• Requirements, test management • Software development

• Project management (ie, Scrum masters) • Examples:

• Atlassian JIRA, GreenHopper, Bonfire, Confluence • Go2Group JaM Plugin, synapseRT, ConnectALL • HP QC / ALM, Salesforce, SugarCRM

An Example

of Agile

• Pre-Agile: Waterfall-based

• Backlog of requirements not being developed • Lots of missed deadlines!

• Why Agile?

• Many bugs, parallel / distributed development

• It’s An Agile Life

• Training: “Start thinking in stories, sprints, etc.” • Periodic releases and iterative updates

Where To

Get Started

• One Day Agile Training from Go2Group

• Includes Agile Tools Demonstration!

• Demo / example sprints and release cycles • Great place to get your toes wet

Q&A

You Have Questions?

We Have Answers!

Contact Us!

Thank You!

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Tuesday, March 29 @ 11AM ET

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