Tester: Do you know what the direction of future mobile testing is?

A previous article mentioned that the fragmentation of devices has posed a huge challenge for testing mobile applications. There are challenges and opportunities, not just testbird, but the internet giants, including bat, are laying out mobile testing businesses. However, a single test service does not fully meet the needs of developers. So we're starting to think about what test patterns are going to be the direction of future mobile testing.

Can automated testing completely solve people's needs?

I don't think so. While mobile devices are heavily fragmented, making it impossible for developers to manually test all of the devices and system versions, the testing of the app's usage experience and functional coverage still requires labor. The value of automated testing is to avoid the repetition of work by testers, rather than replacing Labor.

As a result, Testbird does automated compatibility testing by providing a test platform for developers with its own huge library of models to ensure the coverage of mainstream models on the market, thereby reducing user churn. After all, Testbird has more than 2000 phones in total, and if you hand them over to manual testing, you need to have a team of more than 20 people, and automated testing greatly reduces this labor cost.

Where is the future of manual testing?

For enterprises, the testing department has a periodical shortage of personnel and surplus, which accompanies the product life cycle. Product instability when the Test team recruit, product stability after the testing department staff surplus. As managers obviously do not want this to happen, so the tester's organizational model is facing a change.

The role of Testbird is the organizer of the new model, and currently we have built a live experience testing team of 40000 people, which will be a community of great testers. In the future, companies can quickly build a high-quality test service team in the form of crowdsourcing, busy hours and few people at leisure. Testers have flexible working hours, and most importantly, they have a bigger choice.

What is the direction of future mobile testing?

Bird that the future test pattern is roughly two points:

1, the tester's technical threshold is more and more high, mechanical duplication of labor less and fewer. Liberate the testers from manual labor and speak with technology. This means that testers should become more indispensable in the business and get better treatment. It also requires testers to master more testing techniques and tools.

2, the use of automated testing universal, industry-standardized testing process to produce. Testers no longer engage in tedious work, which should be carried out by automated testing. With the improvement of automation testing technology, we will be able to achieve more accurate image recognition and more accurate click. Of course, this is not all, we will also introduce more tools to assist testers to work more efficiently. Some of these tools can be convenient for testers to collect bug information, and some can be convenient for testers to quickly organize test cases, I believe the future will have a set of industry standards to standardize them.

In general, the relationship between automated testing and testers is not competition but complementarity. It is believed that in the future, automated testing will save testers more time, and testers can take advantage of this time to master more valuable technologies. Bird is willing to grow with every test person.

Tester: Do you know what the direction of future mobile testing is?