Cloud era in mobile application testing
Kulwant Kaur, Anureet Kaur · International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development · 2016
Mobile technology usage is exploding across the world. There are lakhs of mobile applications available which run on various mobile platforms such as Android, RIM, windows Mobile, Apple iOS and all. With this incredible growth of mobile applications, evidently developers are expected to deliver high quality, on time and within budget applications. Mobile application testing is considered as a challenging task because of various reasons such as ever-changing mobile devices, limited computational power, limited storage, limited energy, diversity of devices etc. There are various mobile application testing approaches such as testing on real devices, simulators, emulators and testing on cloud. As with advent of cloud computing technology the entire IT enterprises are providing services on cloud. Cloud testing is a software testing using cloud computing offering various benefits as compared to traditional testing strategies. The focus of this paper is to provide baselines for testing the mobile app on cloud which is currently an emerging field in testing. This paper discusses cloud computing, trend of testing on cloud along with various advantages and challenges confronted in testing of mobile applications on cloud.