Mobile testing not up to scratch

Mobile testing company Soasta released today the findings of where 500 IT executives felt there were gaps in their mobile testing approach.
The five key challenges of mobile testing were ranked as:

1.  Development that falls behind without direct access and continuous testing on current devices using an expanding array of touch gestures

2.  Time-to-market delays incurred by extensive and error-prone manual testing

3.  Unknown app impact of actual device performance (CPU, network, battery)

4.  Ignoring the threat of exponential mobile traffic spikes

5. Inexperienced testers who miss critical areas of mobile scale and functionality

The gaps in mobile testing that allow these challenges to manifest themselves were ranked as:

1. Automated functional testing  57%
2. Real device performance  52%
3. Mobile Testing Skills  41%
4. Testing for mobile traffic spikes  41%
5. Access to the latest devices  37%
6. Easily installing mobile apps to test   28%

Sosata’s CEO, Tom Lounibos, claims that the vast majority of enterprises are paying the price for not fully testing mobile performance

“Mobile is the driving force behind many of the major innovations of today, yet the fact that mobile functionality and performance remains unaddressed by more than 94% of the IT teams across verticals is no surprise,” said Tom Lounibos, Soasta CEO.