Mobile Application Development and Testing Specific

Mobile application testing differs considerably from standard ways of testing web or standalone applications due to a great number of specific tasks, design features of mobile devices and the variety of mobile platforms. There are many peculiarities which iPhone app developers take into consideration while mobile application testing for iPhones, iPod Touch, Android, Blackberry and iPads.  
The key moments which are worth keeping in mind while testing mobile apps are the following:

• Power consumption and sensitivity to charging;
• Mobile application stability at working in case of insufficient disk space;
• Work with memory cards;
• Support of various screen resolutions;
• Access to the Internet using the optimal connection: USB, GPRS, Wi-Fi;
• Work with unstable connections;
• Working stability during incoming/ out-coming calls or receiving / sending SMS/MMS;
• Conformance to mobile application development standards;
• Synchronization with the address book, calendar and applications on the PC;
• Stable performance in stressful situations after crashes.

For achieving excellent results and better testing, mobile apps developers use a lot of toolkits such as SDK emulators, tools for automated mobile application testing, utilities for remote access and monitoring processes at mobile devices, for recording video, making screen shots from the device in the process of mobile application testing, emulators of GPS coordinates for testing navigation.

While developing applications for mobile devices it’s essential to make them cross-platform, i.e. applications should be able to work on various platforms and operation systems – Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry, etc.

The important factor while developing and testing mobile applications is user’s interface. If mobile application developers do not consider application's usability carefully, the mobile app users are likely to be irritated because of problems or complexity in working with the application. Mobile app interface designing should be based on the knowledge of user’s experience and expectations.