Best Practices in Testing Mobile Applications

Like all quality assurance processes, mobile development projects benefit from a well-designed defect tracking system, regularly scheduled builds, and planned, systematic testing. There are also plentiful opportunities for white-box and black-box testing as well as opportunities for automation.

Designing a Mobile Application Defect Tracking System

You can customize most defect tracking systems to work for the testing of mobile applications. The defect tracking system must encompass tracking of issues for specific device defects and problems related to any centralized application servers (if applicable).

Logging Important Defect Information

A good mobile defect tracking system includes the following information about a typical device defect: