How to do manual software testing on mobile apps

With the growing software and application industry for the mobile phones, it becomes essential to test their working on various operating system and mobile devices. The developed application should not just effectively work on the mobile phones with different brands, screen sizes and various models but they should be compatible with all the operating systems such as Android, iOS, Windows. 

This can be achieved by availing iOS or Android software testing as a service from an experienced and professional Mobile app and Software Testing service provider agency. 

Here, in this blog, we will primarily discuss how Testing the mobile apps manually can be helpful for QA Testers. 

• Test on real devices

Start with Testing on the actual mobile phones or on a platform that offers an extensive range of real mobile phone iOS and android devices to test your application. 

All you need to do is register yourself on a real device Cloud software testing websites – say BrowserStack. Now upload your application that needs to be tested and just select the operating system and the mobile phone you wish to use for testing.

Conducting tests on these devices in real environment will give you the actual insights and app behavior. 

• Testing on Simulators

Now this one is an extensive process where the Quality assurance manual Testers will need to first plan and identify the type and number of mobile phones that their app needs to be tested on and then one by one download the emulator for each one of them.  

This is a time taking process, which can even lead to inefficient results in the final testing stage. Hence, this can be useful in the initial phases of app building and testing.