Mobiles - The way they transformed made things reachable to some but created complexity to others

I am talking about the quality checks for the applications built for mobile devices. Mobile devices transformation has to be considered as the fastest change in technology so as the complexity in delivering applications on this new platform which is becoming a must !

Besides making sure the features work i.e. testing the functionality, it is the most important task to ensure the app actually perform as expected. someone can say what is there to think about as it is a light weight code .. there is infact a lot that could disrupt the performance - examples - have to support different vendors like android/APPLE, version of operating systems, underlying hardware, resolutions, GPU, CPUs, memory, network carriers and subscribed bandwidths like 2G/3G/4G, inter-apps interruptions, backend thread support for async calls .. what not !

Well there is a lot, I can think of how one can approach to validate performance of the mobile applications and the upstream servers by using some of the great tools in the market.

Below are some of the tasks to evaluate performance and what these tools can do..

• Test and monitor the app's performance on different emulators. If it has to be done independently then each IDE is needed like android studio, IOS IDE and respective skill set as well. Perfecto addresses this with its support to multiple devices 

• Test the app's performance on different real devices- can't do it manually.. can not have a farm of devices.. perfecto can do it using its mobile device cloud.. or its emulator is good enough as well

• Simulate apps performance under different network speeds on devices/emulators - can do by using various softwares like act but again perfecto along with shunra integration can manage devices by emulating various network bandwidths

• Capture the traffic and simulate 1000's of devices load to app servers - this can be done using emulators and tcp capture.. but perfecto-shunra can do and the captured traffic can be fed to Loadrunner. And, Shunra can virtualize networks to emulate load from different locations/carriers/bandwidths during load tests

• At the same time one would have to recheck the app's performance on the device while server under load  - again by perfecto

Its a different world now with mobiles/tablets/wearables that move .. Apps need to support all these !

Gone are those days where apps are accessed from a standalone PC ..