A Look at Inside Strategies for Mobile App Performance Testing

Whether utilizing a mobile application or browsing a website through a mobile browser, mobile consumers have high-performance expectations. The mobile app marketplaces are crowded, and if you want a spot on a customer's smartphone, you'll have to fight for it. According to Equation Research, 58 percent of mobile users anticipate websites to load in the same amount of time on their phones as they do on their home computers. As a result, effective mobile app performance testing is essential before launch. 

Here are some of the inside strategies that you can use for better mobile app performance testing:-

Test in Production Environment

Extrapolating performance based on a limited lab test is problematic, given the complexity of today's online infrastructure and the global distribution of mobile users. While testing in the lab or a staging environment is beneficial, it is unlikely to uncover the performance and reliability issues that arise in large-scale production. For effective mobile app performance testing, you must extend your testing efforts beyond the application to the actual production environment. Only through testing in the production infrastructure can you account for all of your application's components, including those that aren't part of the program itself.

Production testing does not always imply putting your live application in jeopardy. There are techniques to test in the production environment without exposing yourself to too much risk. For Instance; test during a maintenance window, production test but before the product is announced/released, test on a slice of the production infrastructure.

 

Test Accurately for the Mobile Environment

When mobile app performance testing, you must make sure your performance testing can simulate your mobile consumers' actual behavior and environment. You must be able to accurately portray the user environment in the diversified mobile application environment, which includes web services calls from games or other apps, as well as mobile browsers. Multiple mobile platforms, such as Blackberry smartphones, Android, iOS, WebOS, and Windows Mobile, should be tested for mobile web pages.

 

Test Across Geographies 

Mobile users, by definition, do not stay in one place, and the Internet transcends geographical boundaries; as a result, good mobile app performance testing is critical for worldwide reach. Send traffic from various sections of the country, as well as from different countries and continents, through several Internet backbones. Ascertain that the application runs smoothly and consistently across the whole infrastructure.

 

Test for 2-3 Times Expected Capacity

No one is particularly skilled at forecasting peak loads; we're all guessing. Even firms that have been around for a long time and have a track record make the error of presuming that previous performance forecasts future performance. In today's online environment, that's a dangerous assumption to make. Words may spread faster than you might think with the help of Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites. Because of this ambiguity, it's best to predict your peak traffic and then conduct mobile app performance testing at two to three times that peak capacity. Testing at this size assures you that your application infrastructure can withstand a spike in traffic without crashing.