A Survey Paper - Mobile Applications Testing: Challenges and solutions through Automated Techniques

Due to immense development of mobile devices, mobile applications have engrossed a large market. Due to rapid increase in number of users of mobile applications, it is concern for researchers and software professionals to devise appropriate software techniques to ensure the unfaltering quality of these mobile applications. As the development life cycle of mobile applications is small-scaled, the developed apps tend to be malfunctioning due to negligence in ensuring the quality of app. The purpose of our research is to mainly investigate the general methods and tools used for mobile application testing in different software companies, challenges faced by that companies and analyze solutions to those challenges. Mobile application testing techniques are categorized either as manual or automated techniques. But more emphasis is given to automated approach due to its assorted advantages. This paper discusses the various automated techniques used for testing mobile apps along with comparison of manual and automated testing approaches. It investigates new conducts in research on the type of testing and skills required for mobile application testing