Using Xamarin Test Cloud to test on multiple devices
Mobile application users are very demanding in terms of the quality and performance of an application. Platforms such as app stores, where users can promptly give feedback as they wish, make it even more important to take mobile application quality seriously:
- Question: How can we test a mobile application effectively?
- Answer: By running the application on a real device and using it like a user would do
Challenges in mobile app testing
Mobile application testing involves many challenges that web applications don't have.
Different mobile OS versions
Let's take Android, for example. Since Android started, it has grown at a very fast rate, with a new major release every year. That makes around 15 major versions out there in the market, out of which at least 6 versions are widely used in different parts of the world, depending on the region and smartphone availability.
These are only the major versions we are talking about; the minor versions are...