The Growing Options for Mobile Testing

When it comes to evaluation or testing of mobile devices, there is no dearth of options that are available. However, in spite of the considerable growth in the number of solutions of mobile testing, a significant extent of evaluation is done manually. This is mainly because of scalability and financial issues. Yet, another option that is seeing high growth in terms of popularity is outsourcing.

Then there is Crowdsourced mobile testing, which is an extremely low-cost version of outsourced mobile assessment. This particular type of evaluation comes up with flexibility. It also supports multilingual evaluation of a broader cross section of the devices. It is mainly used by the freelancers. This helps in cost cutting in a significant way.

With the requirement of mobile testing increasing in leaps and bounds, there is an ardent need for various options as well as strategies. As if in response to the growing needs, newer strategies are being developed. Today, it is possible to run all the emulators as well as in-house evaluations. Still, it is needed to conduct the evaluations in the live fields. With so many requirements coming up in the realm of QA, new ideas, options, approaches as well as tools are coming into play.

There is Gorilla Logic that has come out with the version 5 of FoneMonkey, which is famous for its open-source functional evaluation framework. Then there is another option – the uTest that is popular among the fraternity of crowdsourced evaluation. Another option is Selenium. This is actually a portable evaluation framework that is meant for the web applications. However, this can be modified to make it applicable for the mobile devices.

Apart from all these, there is the option of simulator-based evaluation, though this particular type has drawn criticism from certain quarters, and hence is generally avoided. There is a cloud based testing solution that conducts the Selenium tests, which takes care of the management along with the provisioning issues through the commodity hardware. Other options that are available are:

Apptimize: This one is designed to be used in iOS as well as Android. For the monthly active users, the framework will cost $50/month. The framework helps in updating as well as` changing without the need to resubmit at the App Store.

Leanplum: This tool is available mainly for iOS, PhoneGap, Android, as well as Unity. It costs $79 per month for the evaluators who use this tool. It also helps in visual editing of the applications.

Taplytics: At present, Taplytics is only available for iOS, and the cost of the tool is $20/month for the QAs who avail this tool’s help. Again, this tool also helps in visual editing of the applications.

Artisan: Artisan is available for iOS as well as Android. The cost of the tools is $1,000 per month for the users who take the help of this tool in an active way. Artisan is one of the two A/B QA frameworks that you will find as a part of the larger analytics package. Artisan also enables visual editing of your app.

Vessel: Vessel is available for Windows phone, Android, iOS, PhoneGap or HTML5. Vessel.io costs $150 per month and comes with a larger analytics pack, which enables visual application editing.

Swrve: Swrve provides an enterprise QA solution.

Arise: Arise is available for iOS as well as Androidand is available at 99 Euros for its active users.

Splitforce: Splitforce is basically a tool designed for iOS and Unity. The cost of this tool is $299 for the users who take help of this tool.

Optimimo: Optimimo is designed exclusively for Android and it available at $49 per month for the ones who use it actively.

Amazon A/B Testing: This framework is designed and developed on AWS, and is available for iOS, Android as well as Android Kindle Fire. It is an open source framework and is hence, free, with no limits as regards to apps, the number of team members and active users. To get maximum benefits of mobile testing, you may consider hiring services of a mobile automation testing company.

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