Automated vs Manual App Testing : What Is Needed ?

In Quality Assurance (QA) , automated testing performs best at its speed . But when it comes to showing of functionality and first impression , manual testing perform its best . Delivering quality application is always best performed by manual testing , inspite of the fact that automated testing are getting refined day by day . Although both the testing have their own advantages and disadvantages , but as per our suggestion , if you are mobile app development agency , manual testing delivers an extra ordinary experience .

Mobile app testing plays an important role in any mobile app development , failing which all your efforts for developing the app will go into veins .

This article will further guide you the pros and cons of automated and manual testing , and best time to use each of them .

Automated Mobile App Testing 

Well automated testing is proven beneficial in case you are planning to have a large application , as it can test speedy with reliability . Another benefit being automated test cases are reusable in nature , but in case of agile environment , you need to reword on automated testing  . But as we all know during development stage the product flow keeps on changing , as a result every change requires a change in the script of automated testing . Specially when you are working on the smaller project , automated testing is always proven to be wasteful and tedious task . Without carrying on the automated testing on right path , frankly speaking you may fall behind your schedules .

Pros Of Automated Mobile App Testing

• Beneficial for large mobile app
• Have ability to run multiple test at once 
• Can perform tedious test that demands an high end manual testers

Cons Of Automated Mobile App Testing

• Time consuming and of no use for small scale mobile app 
• No ability to test user experience 
• Have code constraint for each category of mobile app

When To Use Automated Mobile App Testing

• Automated testing is useful during early stages of development process because of frequent code change . Automated testing facilitates running of regression testing quickly .
• When you have repetitive sets of task , then automated testing is preferred .
• When you are trying to check and ensure your app perforce to thousand of users at once , automated testing is preferred .

Inspite of some benefits of automated testing , there is always a mandatory requirement of human touch in testing . On the other hand , automative testing is also very costly when dealing particularly with small size of project . Even for long term projects , in which automatic testing is preferred , the cost of automation software is always on the higher end .

Manual Mobile App Testing 

You will never be able to judge the reason of app crash with automated testing , rather a manual testing is required for the same in order to know the reason and even to get it solved . Also automated testing of not programmed for finding a specific category of error , it will not find any such error , but in practical situation it will create hinderance .

Pros Of Manual Mobile App Testing 

• Provide more accurate result 
• Better user interface (UI) testing 
• Beneficial for smaller projects 
• Easier to deal with common situation like app crashes and complicated scenarios 

Cons Of Manual Mobile App Testing 

• Does not provide 100 % accuracy 
• Required human being to perform every task 
• Not preferred in case of cumbersome task 

When To Use Manual Mobile App Testing 

• Manual testing required a human being and hence his/her professional experience , knowledge and creativity is required for exploratory testing 
• We all know how important is UI/UX in app development process , and it is next to impossible to determine user friendly approach without human intervention .

What user will see is the end product , and not the things that have been worked backdoor to get it done . That is the reason mobile app testing is a repetitive process with different types of variations .

Winklix is leading mobile app development company  that uses both automated and manual testing as per the requirement of the app , so that we can deliver you the best of the product . So contact us for your next big project !!