11 Tips to Make a Effective Mobile Device Testing Lab

1. 11 Tips to Make a Effective Mobile Device Testing Lab

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3. Tip #1: Use Real Devices Whether using a public cloud, a secure private mobile device cloud or a device plugged into a desktop, always plan to test on real devices. While many testers today use emulation technology, it isn’t the most trustworthy solution. 

4. Tip #2: Master Apple Code Signing and Provisioning A common challenge that testers face when creating a mobile device testing lab is iOS provisioning, the process by which Apple allows an app to be installed and launched on a real device.

5. Tip #3: Use a Secure, Private Mobile Device Testing Cloud Using a secure and private device cloud is a crucial for enterprises with a large number of testers, especially when they aren’t located under the same roof. This separation can range anywhere from a different building to another continent.

6. Tip #4: Don’t Get Crushed by the Numbers According to data compiled by mobile metrics vendor Criticisms, there are 2,582 device types running 106 operating system versions serviced by 691 carriers worldwide.  If the goal is to test every permutation possible, then every test case will be run 189,121,172 times!

7. Tip #5: Join the DevOps Revolution As Apple and Android tools have at times proven to be both difficult to use and time consuming, development, IT and QA staffs are now working to automate and field their own production environments.

8. Tip #6:Don’t Automate Everything A solid mobile device testing strategy takes into consideration when to automate and when to fall back on manual testing. The fact remains that some tests are simply faster, easier and less expensive to run manually, such as trainability tests, configuration tests, mobile device performance tests and usability tests.

9. Tip #7: Find the Developers Communication between mobile device test teams and development teams shortens cycle times and is crucial when ensuring apps are properly signed for installation on real devices. 

10. Tip #8:Don’t Try to Find the “Swiss Army Knife” of Testing Because enterprise mobile apps almost always use back-end services, thorough testing involves both manual and automated UI testing, but may also include security testing, service virtualization, load testing, performance profiling and network condition testing. Most enterprises use tools that manage test cases – both automated and manual – and that include versioning, storage of results and the ability to data-drive and to automate concurrent testing.

11. Tip #9: Use What You Know Does the tool have stable support for real devices? Do you already know how to use this tool? Can the tool solve your device access management challenges?

12. Tip #10:Know What You Are Testing Mobility has turned the client-server model on its head, thus creating a huge DevOps challenge. Desktop web tools test back-end services in conjunction with a small set of browsers on a single desktop, and the code is almost always served up by a Web server, which makes syncing their functions fairly easy.

13. Tip #11: Satisfy the CISO As mobile devices depend on wireless network connectivity—public and private networks—for much of their function, testing must not only be done on real devices, but also on real devices that have public network access.

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