With every new release, smartphones are adding new features to their reservoirs. While the apps are doing what they do best, any distraction from their regular functions can lead to an interruption.
Advancements in mobile technology are making our smartphones more intelligent. With every new release, smartphones are adding new features to their reservoirs – they are now our shopping cart, grocer, bank, teachers, doctors, and much more.
While the apps are doing what they do best, any distraction from their regular functions can lead to an interruption. A few examples of the interruptions include:
Interrupt Testing is the evaluation of the application behavior during various types of interruptions. The anticipated behavior of an application should be to come out clean of the interruption and resume the task. However, the actual behavior of the application depends on the following factors:
These factors pose numerous challenges for QA engineers who analyze the application for interruptions such as coverage on a broad range of operating systems, screen sizes, and diverse network availability.
Monetarily, interruptions can cost more if not performed on AUT, than the money saved if not performed at all. Unfortunately, interruption testing is not implemented for most applications since it is new to the mobile testing sphere and its testing tools are still evolving.
Interrupt testing can be segregated into three fundamental brackets:
Device Dependent
Covers verifications related to the built-in features of the device being tested such as - device locking, alarms, volume, shutdown, restart, headphones, and battery.
Functionality Dependent
An amalgamation of functionality of the application and device - includes areas such as notifications, messages, calls, and device orientation.
Network Dependent
Requires holistic coverage of all scenarios with various networks such as 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G with both mobile data and Wi-Fi.
The above list is not exhaustive - interruption testing requires intricate test scenarios verification in mobile application.
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