Mobile app development is one of the fastest growing domains. With rapid new innovations, there is a need for QA professionals to keep themselves up to date with the new understandings of testing tools and techniques for successfully certifying the release of mobile apps. QASource’s Mobile QA Group has come up with these quarterly updates to instigate the knowledge transfer sessions amongst the mobile QA community. We welcome your inputs to these knowledge updates and would be happy to take this as a continuous discussion to help our community.
Mobicast - Keep it Fast, Simple and Useable
Android N - Major Features
- Split-screen multitasking
- Improved doze and background optimizations
- Actionable notifications
- Number blocking and call screening
- Improved quick settings
- Picture in picture support & TV recording
- Data saver mode
- Android for work updates
- Screen zoom
- Release Date
- Q3-2016 (tentative)
- Code Name
- Nutella (tentative)
- Version Number
- 7.x (tentative)
Android Apps for QA Toolkit
(Nice to have)
Benefits to Engineering Team
- Fast and simple ways to verify details of Android device’s SOC architecture
- Helps in detecting all available and supported android mobile sensors
- Quicker way to view device performance (monitors the hardware, battery, memory & storage health)
- Supports multi touch testing and dead pixel test
Tips & Tricks
Test responsive design of web apps in Chrome

- Launch your application
- Press F12 or Console drawer
- Click on sources tab
- Click on 'Toggle device mode' button
Test verify your application in different devices.
Major reasons of app crash

App can crash due to following reasons:
- Memory leakage
- Null pointer reference: One action calls another non-existing module
- Race-condition: e.g. login with same user in multiple devices concurrently or performing multi-touch in non-supported apps
- Multi-tasking: Running multiple apps in background resulting in h/w failing to support apps
News Flash
Open-source Automation Tools release updates are:
- Calabash-android has released a newer version 0.7.2
Download link | Release notes - Calabash-ios has released a newer version 0.18.2
Download link | Release notes - Appium has released a newer version 1.5.0
Download link | Release notes
Mobile OS release updates are:
- iOS has released a newer version 9.3
Download link | Release notes - Google has released a beta version of newer OS named as Android N
Download link | Release notes
Mobile OS SDK release updates are:
- Apple has released a newer version of Xcode 7.3
Download link | Release notes - Android SDK current versions are:
- SDK Platform 23 - SDK Tools 24.4.1 - SDK Platform-tools 23.1 - SDK Build-tools 23.0.3