Closing the Mobile App Quality Gap Past Webinar Archived (originally presented February 7th, 2013) 94% of companies today lack fundamental capabilities to validate end user success with mobile apps. Major gaps in mobile testing skills and tools have both surfaced the need for change and driven exciting innovation and opportunity. This SOASTA webinar explores how test and development managers can take advantage of the mobile transformation to build world-class solutions that bridge testing gaps, compress delivery cycles and optimize app quality. Industry veterans and SOASTA experts Fred Beringer and Jason Slater will explore: The business impact of poor mobile quality Areas to focus on quality processes for the greatest impact The latest updates to SOASTA’s mobile platform Heads Up Display to further accelerate test development Validating what matters, from performance to partial images Test automation that withstands operating system & device updates Collecting real mobile user intelligence to complete the cycle The mobile quality gaps won’t close without action.

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Presents
Understanding
and avoiding the
quality risks to
mobile app
delivery

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Advances in SOASTA mobile testing close the major gaps
TODAY’S SOASTA PRESENTERS
Fred Beringer: VP Product Management, SOASTA - @Fredberinger
Jason Slater: Sr. Mobile Solutions Engineer, SOASTA
Brad Johnson: VP Product & Channel Marketing, SOASTA - @bradjohnsonsv
Agenda:
• Survey says…
• Poll question
• State of Mobile Testing – Risks, Gaps & Opportunities
• SOASTA’s advancements with TouchTest and mobile testing
• Q&A
Questions:
Submit in chat box during event

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Respondents:
Banking and Finance
eCommerce
Federal Agencies
Global IT Services
Insurance
Media & Entertainment
Retail
Tax services
94%Identified significant mobile testing gaps

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MobileTestAutomation
RealDevicePerformance
MobileTestingSkills
FullSystemLoadTesting
Accesstolatestdevices
Pushingappstodevices
57%
52%
41% 41%
37%
28%

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TouchTest
Continuous
Testing

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TouchTest
Continuous
Testing
CloudTest
Load &
Performance

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TouchTest
Continuous
Testing
CloudTest
Load &
Performance
mPulse
Real User
Monitoring

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TouchTest
Continuous
Testing
CloudTest
Load &
Performance
mPulse
Real User
Monitoring

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Fred Beringer
Vice President, Product Management

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• Testing Market: $30B in 2012 - $50B in 2020 (ABI
Research) – 50% outsourcing test revenue (!)
• Revenue from Mobile Application Testing Tools:
$200M in 2012 - $800M in 2017. Driven by test
automation (ABI Research)
• In the Enterprise, mobile app development projects will
outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1 (Digital
Ad Agency Vertic)
• The global mobile applications market is estimated to
reach $25.0 billion in 2015 from about $6.8 billion in
2010 (MarketsandMarkets)

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• Only 31% of companies test their mobile apps (!) (World Quality Report 2012)
• 80% of apps are tested manually (IDC)
Data source: Sogeti World Quality Report 2012

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Data source: Sogeti World Quality Report 2012
65% still trying to find the right product
Testing products lags behind dev
Mobile strategy is under development
Leverage legacy products?
Testers seem afraid of change

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Data source: Sogeti World Quality Report 2012
52% don’t have the required devices
Brand & Model selection
How to integrate into the test environment?
Cost
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Data source: Sogeti World Quality Report 2012
Testers trapped in web world
Development cycle are shrinking (DevOps)
Manual testers are left behind
A lot of testers don’t understand the full
mobile picture, yet
Photo source: http://buff.ly/WTewIL
More than 50% have average internal testers
More than 50% of testers are not up to
speed with new tools and techs

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Data source: Sogeti World Quality Report 2012
Think agile x 10
Bridge the innovation gap with devs
Integrate test into DevOps (DevTestOps)
Manual Testing needs to stay minimal
Bring test activities closer to devs
Photo source: http://fredberinger.com

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Jason Slater
Sr. Mobile Solutions Engineer

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