Mobile App Europe 2014 Notes

Effective QA – Is It Really Necessary

Notes on a keynote by Martin Wrigley (AQuA) at the Mobile App Europe 2014.

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QA and testing is all about Risk Management

How much testing do you need to do?

AQuA - App Quality Alliance http://www.appqualityalliance.org/

Mobile App Testing

• To prevent disappointing your customers
• To manage risk of failure (if it does not make any difference - why write it at all?)
• Safeguard brand
• Cannot afford to not get it right

AUuA guide - the essentials of mobile testing

• What do you consider?
• What do you mean by testing?
• What is the structure?
• What tools do you use and why?
• What to test? How much do you test?

##Critical Elements in the test plan

• Unit testing
• Functional testing
• Non-functional testing
• Performance testing (battery and data usage!)
• User testing
• Compatibility testing
• Independent testing (by test team)

##Plan your Testing

• Look at your product and your users to build a plan
• Use resources to help you

##AQuA Testing Criteria

• AQuA

Top 10 Errors

• User interface inconsistency
• Lack of clarity of graphics and text
• Language inconsistency and spelling errors
• Help is not there
• App browsing confusion
• Privacy policy omission
• App crashing
• Hidden features
• Network connection: lack of notification
• Screen orientation distortion

##About AQuA

• Best practices
• AT&T ARO tool (open source)
• Online Testing Criteria Tool
• The Quality App Directory

##Effective QA

• Start with good practices
• …
• …

##Three Tips

• Regression testing can and should be automated
• Choose your tools carefully, use the right tool for the right task
• Have someone else do some testing

www.appqualityalliance.org

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