Challenges in Mobile application testing

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Why Mobile application testing ?

 Mobiles and Smartphones are part of our daily lives today. Gartner says by 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times generating a revenue more than $77 billion. So there will be a increased use of mobile applications all over the world. In our day to day life smartphones has changed our lifestyle from making tasks easier for us. As more and more applications are getting developed for Mobile Devices including Smartphones, Mobile Application Testing is becoming very important part of Mobile Application Development Ecosystem. Many MNC are investing a lot in testing mobile applications so that the application developed gives a good experience for the users using it. 

Challenges in Mobile application testing:

> Variety of Mobile Devices :The biggest challenge for mobile application developers and testers is to develop an application for large number of devices and to ensure it is bug free. The hardware diversity of mobiles varies to a large extent. Mobile manufacturing companies are competing day by day in developing mobile phones and releasing them within a short span of time. The hardware configurations developed form one company to another varies to a great extent. Companies have their mobile phones designed from an low end configurations to high end configurations. 

> Diversity in Mobile Platforms/OS : There are many types of operating systems developed by various companies and organisations in the market. Listed below are few operating systems developed by respective organizations.
Google       : Android 
Iphone        : iOS 
Microsoft    : Windows
Blackberry : RIM 


Also these operating systems developed by these organizations gets updated frequently with a newer version, thus making it more complex for testing these applications . 

> Different mobile application types:

Native  Applications : These are applications that are desinged specific for one platform(Android or Ios).An application that is designed for Android operating system cannot be run on another plaforms. Also the performance of these applications is faster compared. 

 Hybrid Applications :The main feature of these application is the cross-platform compatibility. These applications are
can run on multiple platforms such as Android and Ios. These applications are built using Javascript and HTML5 and are wrapped inside a thin native container that provides the access to native platforms.

Mobile Web application :
These are nothing but websites that are run by a browser. The real websites are re-designed for  mobilescreens , netbooks and ipads.

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