It’s difficult to imagine our life without mobile phones. Different apps serve different functions, from entertainment to important work tasks and communication. This trend has a significant impact on the businesses development.
Today, the situation looks like this: if you want to satisfy your customers, you have to offer them a functional and flawless mobile app. In order to create an app that will be widely used, you should have a good understanding of your target audience and their needs. But in order to provide users with a quality product, you need to conduct thorough mobile app testing.
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Best load testing tools for mobile application
Mobile app testing is a complex process that requires a comprehensive approach. When testing, it is worth considering such aspects of the app’s operation:
- Installation
- Execution of all functions according to the requirements
- The mobile device memory used by the app
- The occurrence of various interruptions in the work of the application, as well as the corresponding notifications
- Convenient and intuitive usage
- Server, network, and client application performance
In relation to the last point, you should apply different tools to test the application on the server and client-side. Below, you can find some of the most effective mobile app performance testing tools.
Gatling
This system is based on Scala, Akka, and Netty. Gatling can be used to test the performance of web and mobile applications. It integrates with your build tool, providing testing specialists with detailed reports. Gatling makes continuous mobile app load testing much easier.
Features
- Provides a detailed HTML report
- Supports Scala and DSL
- Asynchronous non-blocking engine
- Supports multiple browsers and operating systems
- Supports HTTP/S, JMS, and JDBS
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JMeter
It is one of the most frequently used mobile app load testing tools for testing app performance on iPhone or Android. This open-source program created in Java has many useful functions and a user-friendly graphical interface.
Features
- Provides reports in different formats, such as graphs, tables, trees
- Supports protocols like HTTP, JDBC, LDAP, SOAP, JMS, and FTP
- Supports multiple servers’ types, like HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, JDBC, LDAP, JMS, POP3
- Testers can simulate multiple users
- User-friendly interactive interface
- Multithreaded framework
- Remote test distribution function
Apptim
QA specialists use Apptim to test load usage, power consumption, errors and more. You can use it for tests of your mobile application on Android as well as on iOS devices.
Features
- You can compare two test sessions when you perform a retest of a newly added feature
- Simple, intuitive, and attractive interface
- Integration with JIRA
- With this tool, you get a detailed report with performance metrics and bugs
- Testing on a real device
Experitest
Experitest allows you to test the performance, load and evaluate the functionality of a mobile application. It is the best tool to perform testing on all mobile platforms.
Features
- Supports integration of SaaS tools with ALM, UFT/QTP, WebDriver/Selenium, Junit, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Python
- Integrates performance metrics into manual and automated testing
- Video reports
- HAR (HTTP Archive)
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Robotium
Robotium is an open source library. It is used exclusively for mobile app stress testing of the Android system. It supports both native and hybrid applications.
Features
- JavaScript for creating scripts
- Uses the TestDroid Recorder
Eggplant
With this tool you can test load and performance of any application on any platform. What’s more with the help of image recognition algorithms, the automated testing specialist can track the behavior of the installed application.
Features
- Easy automated script creation
- Creation of any number of virtual users from any location
- Support for multiple client-server technologies
Bottom line
Testing a mobile app is important for ensuring that potential users have the most positive experience with your product. In order for the tests to be effective, you should first clearly think through the purpose of the application. Who is going to use it? What are the main functions it should perform? These questions will help you gather the necessary information for choosing the most appropriate tools and strategies.
Author
Kate Zalozna. CTO at QA Madness. I’ll share my knowledge and experience of implementing QA strategies and ensuring their alignment with a company’s business needs. After working in QA and software testing for over 9 years, I have a lot of things to share.
