Mobile Application Testing Strategies and Challenges: A Case Study in Jordan

Mobile application testing is an activity that aims to evaluate and improve the quality of the released application by identifying all the defects and issues. The testing results should be consistent and also unbiased, and this comes with a set of challenges and barriers that could appear in different testing levels. In this situation, quality engineers might need to make a trade-off between the test strategy and test efficiency. This paper presents the results of a study that mainly focused on investigating the challenges of testing mobile applications that could affect the testing process in small and medium-sized enterprises in Jordan. This was achieved by conducting a questionnaire distributed to employees and managers in a number of Jordanian companies. The results show that the variety of mobile devices is the most common challenge for many firms. However, most of the firms agreed that battery life or consumption is not affecting the testing of mobile devices.