Designing Agile Test Strategy for Mobile Apps By Parimala Hariprasad

Designing Agile Test Strategy
for Mobile Apps
Parimala Hariprasad
Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering

Agenda
• Mobility Trends
• Test Strategy for Mobile Apps
• App Exploration
• Heuristic Test Model
• Platform Coverage
• Mobile Personas
• Guidelines driven testing
• Competitor Analysis
• Field Testing
• Hands-on exercise
• Q & A

The Common Man’s Mobility
Dream

Mobile Trend

Mobile Vs. Desktop

• Type of App (Native, Hybrid, Web)
• Purpose
• App Features
• Physical features on phone
• Testing Tours

Credited to Dhanasekar Subramaniam

Operating Systems Device Models
Browsers

Fragmentation

How to select from an ocean of devices?
• Singular Approach
 One Device
• Proportional Approach
 Multiple Devices
• Shotgun approach
• Outsourced Approach

A person looking to rent on a <Real Estate Mobile App> is a male
graduate, between 25- 30 years on age looking for a
place in Bangalore. He is a salaried employee of a
private company, earning between Rs. 5,00,000
to Rs 10,00,000 p.a.

User Categories
• Tech Savvy
• Novice
• Trespasser
• First time user
• User of competitor apps
• Impatient user
• Who else?

User Profile (Analytics)

• Android Design guidelines
• iOS HIG guidelines
• Store Submission guidelines

• Platform level comparison
• Feature level comparison
• Quality Criteria level comparison
• What is social media saying?
• SWOT
What’s Sticky About The App?

• What does data tell?
 Analytics
• How are apps used?
 Surveys
• What do users say?
 Reviews

Field Tests for a Music
Streaming App
• 80 kms bike trip while the app was streaming music all along the journey
• 3 hour road trip between Bangalore and Mysore
• Using the app in Garuda Mall, ladies toilet where none of the streaming
apps work on 3G
• Streaming music in Old Airport Road, Bangalore where network gets
disconnected automatically in one specific location
• Testing the app on Wi-Fi about 50m away from the building that hosted
the Wi-Fi infrastructure
• Moving from 2G tower to 3G tower and vice versa over a distance of
several kilometers

Key Pillars for a Mobile Apps
Testing

Let’s get practical

Acknowledgements
• Dhanasekar Subramaniam
• Jonathan Kohl
• Karen Johnson
• Julian Harty
• Rob Sabourin
• Anne Marie Charrett
• Pradeep Soundararajan
• Image Credits – The World Wide Web

Thank You
22
@CuriousTester
Parimala.Hariprasad@pass.ch
http://curioustester.blogspot.in

Designing Agile Test Strategy for Mobile Apps By Parimala Hariprasad

More Related Content

What's hot

Viewers also liked

Similar to Designing Agile Test Strategy for Mobile Apps By Parimala Hariprasad

More from Agile Testing Alliance

Recently uploaded

Designing Agile Test Strategy for Mobile Apps By Parimala Hariprasad

Editor's Notes