Because of their nature, mobile apps can take longer to develop, test, and release. Using mobile-first features makes testing, developing, and releasing mobile apps easier and faster. It is important to test mobile apps continuously to ensure they are of high quality. Automation is heavily used in mobile continuous testing. A mobile app that works on a wide variety of devices and operating systems is critical. Together, we'll explore what automated Mobile Continuous Testing entails and which tools, practices and processes can be used.

1. The Role of Automation in
Mobile Continuous Testing
Moataz Nabil
Developer Advocate

2. Why Mobile app testing is necessary?
▪ Mobile apps become more complex
and modules become more diverse
▪ Mobile teams are growing and
become Large Engineering Team
▪ Serving millions of customers
everyday

3. When it comes to
mobile apps, mistakes
are hard to revert

4. Accelerate app releases by
reducing any testing bottlenecks
with test automation
The Goal

5. Challenges in Mobile Testing
▪ Device fragmentation
▪ Deeplinks
▪ Push notification
▪ Localization
▪ Accessibility
▪ Security
▪ Performance

6. Mobile Testing Strategy
▪ Defining the scope and objectives of the testing
▪ Identifying the target devices and platforms
▪ Developing a test plan

7. Choosing the right Mobile
Test Automation Tool
▪ Handle most of the mobile challenges
▪ Flexibility (ex: handling locators)
▪ Easy to understand
▪ Collaborate between mobile and test
engineers
▪ Learning resources and
documentation
▪ Community support

8. Cross-platform Native
Mobile Test Automation Tools/Frameworks
mobile.dev

9. Move the test to the left
▪ From blocker to Enabler
▪ Early detection of defects
▪ Improve collaboration and communication
▪ Faster delivery and deployment (releases)
Test Early & Often
Fail fast

10. ▪ The process of executing automated tests as part of the delivery
pipeline in order to obtain feedback on the business risks
associated with the mobile release candidate as rapidly as
possible.
▪ Seamlessly integrated into the software delivery pipeline and
DevOps toolchain
Continuous Testing
Keeping
Testing
Visible

11. Mobile CI/CD Workflow
Checkout
Repo
Build App
Unit
Tests
UI Tests
Sign
App
Release
App
Upload
Beta
Testers
Deploy to
App Stores
Publish
Test
Results
Send
Slack
Message
▪ Cloud devices
▪ Run automated tests in parallel
▪ CI/CD pipeline
Execution best practices

12. KPIs for measuring the success of automation
in Mobile Continuous Testing
Test coverage - the percentage of features,
functionalities, and scenarios covered by
automated tests
Test execution time - the time it takes to run
automated tests
Defect detection rate - the number of defects
detected by automated tests
Test stability - the percentage of automated tests
that are passing consistently over time

13. Recap
▪ Automation in Mobile Continuous Testing is
improving the quality and speed of mobile app
development and release.
▪ Continuous Testing over testing at the end.
▪ Embracing all testing activities over automating
everything.
▪ Testing what gives value, based on customer
usage, over testing everything.
▪ A whole team approach to testing over testing in
siloed testing departments.

14. Thank
You