With rising production in mobile devices and applications, mobile test automation has become a necessity. It is because mobile automation testing ensures app effectiveness, performance, accessibility, and safety. Long story short, it is important for businesses to leverage mobile test automation.  

Besides, launching a mobile application without testing never makes an app successful.  And mobile test automation comes here to the rescue. It not only helps to improve the app development cycle but leverages high-quality products. However, the only thing that might deplete the efforts made to foster quality is the lack of technique in the test automation process.   

Let us quickly jump on a few necessary tips that can help with effective mobile test automation: 

•  Define Mobile Automation Testing Goals  

To assure end-to-end quality for the applications, businesses need to define goals that can help to set the right approach to perform mobile testing. Some objectives that can be considered while starting with mobile testing include enhanced test coverage, cost-effectiveness, faster time to market. It entirely depends upon the organization what their preference is.   

• Define steps of the work process  

Companies must ensure to have a good set of test units, Test integrations, and end-to-end tests cases to assure proper functioning of the mobile automation pipeline. These requirements are necessary for the efficient flow of mobile applications and to perform automation tests. Thus, ensuring mobile application end-to-end quality.  

• End to End Automation Tests  

Making end-to-end test automation part of the CI pipeline defines as a good strategy. QA companies ensure to perform end-to-end automation testing to rectify bugs and issues. Moreover, automated tests must be run end to end at the initial phase of mobile application development to deliver quality products. 

• Make application security a priority   

Mobile applications are prone to viruses and cyber-attacks. Therefore, to protect your application, security testing along with automation testing must be performed. Not only does it secure the application, but it also improves app performance. Security testing also keeps a check on ethical hacking as well.   

• Periodic Mobile Application Roll Out   

Once your applications are tested, make sure to phase rollout your solutions. This will help to get customer review over the latest version and updated. Thus, accordingly, testers can make changes in the test cases before launching the final product into the market.   

Essential Factors for Successful Test Automation  

Even when you are sticking to all the above-defined tips, it is equally necessary to stick with some essential factors to implement a successful mobile test automation services in order to reduce time, eliminate QA bottlenecks, and shorten your release cycles:  

Build a Dedicated Team:  

With the changing business demands and requirements, it is necessary to have a dedicated team that is not only experienced but also flexible. QA outsourcing companies offer various engagement models depending upon the business requirement and project duration. This helps to provide companies with the best solutions and also reduce their recruiting challenges. Hence, assuring organizations with the right people at the right time with less market cost.   

Right Selection of Tool:   

Choose automation testing companies that have good knowledge of automation tools. The biggest challenge automation testers face the selection of appropriate tools. Therefore, it is important to opt for the automation testing tools that go best with your business requirements.  Else, it can lead to high organizational expenses in terms of money and labor.   

Selecting the right automation tools is one of the most important automation strategies to assure the end-to-end quality of the product. Steps to consider while making a choice:   

• Analyze automation tools by comparing parameters, specifications and whether they meet business requirements   
• Consider tool compatibility with application   

• Consider tool that supports multiple programming languages and continuous integrations servers   
• Make sure the tool you select can execute on both simulators and devices.  
• The ease of scripting should also be considered while selecting a tool   
     

Choose Right Automation Framework:   

Automation framework helps to maintain consistency in testing and also reduce the need for code maintenance. Here are four types of frameworks generally preferred by testers:   

• Data-driven automation Framework  
• Keyword-driven automation framework  
• Modular automation framework  
• Hybrid automation framework  

Choosing an appropriate framework can greatly help in making your automation successful. The automation framework plays an important role in the execution of automation test cases. A good framework will let the tester achieve high reusability of test components and develop test scripts that help to achieve high-quality test scripts.   

Using appropriate Emulators or Simulators:  

Emulators and simulators create a virtual environment that mimics the features of mobile devices. The automation framework runs on emulators and simulators to test performance and application responsiveness. However, simulators and emulators let application testing that is quite different from the real-life scenarios, and also, test execution speed is slow. Therefore, it is always recommended to check application compatibility with real devices.   

Automated Maintenance:  

Automation test scripts that are under successive cycles need to be checked and maintained periodically before the release of each cycle. It is necessary to maintain these test scripts periodically to assure the quality of the end product. Moreover, it also simplifies routine duties and ensures system stability,   

Conclusion  

To ensure quality end-to-end mobile test automation, you need to be careful of the above-mentioned points. Successful test automation strategies are all about selecting the right tools, frameworks, emulators/simulators, and continuous maintenance of test scripts and cases,   

Also, having the right team by your side resolves a lot of challenges before they arise. Besides, the selection of tools and technologies starts with defining the right business goals and objectives.   

Moreover, you can make a plan for application workflow and its timely phased rollout to assure quality end product. After all, end-to-end quality is about implementing automation test cases that can drive more security, functionality, and performance.   

Author Bio: Kanika Vatsyayan is Vice-President Delivery and Operations at BugRaptors who oversees all the quality control and assurance strategies for client engagements. She loves to share her knowledge with others through blogging. Being a voracious blogger, she published countless informative blogs to educate audience about automation and manual testing.