In today’s mobile-first world, apps have woven themselves into the fabric of our daily lives. But what does it take to create an app that seamlessly caters to your user’s needs?

While there are several steps to developing a successful app, one of the most crucial ones before launching is testing. Testing is a vital process that helps guarantee your app performs like a well-oiled machine.
Here are the different aspects of mobile app testing that your mobile app developer should help you go through. Don’t panic if you’ve never worked on the development of an app before. Even the least tech-savvy folks can manage this process.

• Functional Testing: Just like a well-designed machine, an app should work as intended. Buttons
  should lead where expected, and interactions should be responsive and instant.
• Usability Testing: Navigating an app should be a breeze. Are users able to explore its features
  effortlessly? Can they find what they need without stumbling through confusing interfaces?
• Performance Testing: In the midst of a digital crowd, how does your app stand out? Performance
  testing ensures your app’s excellence even when it’s amidst a flurry of concurrent tasks.
• Security Testing: Entrusting personal data requires utmost assurance. Security testing ensures that
  user information remains confidential and that payment transactions are safeguarded.
• Compatibility Testing: From the smallest smartphone to the grandest tablet, your app should adapt
  seamlessly. Compatibility testing guarantees that your app doesn’t discriminate between devices.
• Beta Testing: Before the grand reveal, your app goes through a real-world examination. Real users
  test your app in real scenarios, providing invaluable insights to refine its performance.

Your app’s success doesn’t rest only on its design and appearance or even on the content and information you make available on it. A big part of the success of any mobile app is ensuring that the app works as intended and is a positive, intuitive and simple experience for users. The best way to ensure this is the case is through thorough testing. At Info Grove, testing is deeply ingrained in our process. Since Info Grove is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform we do all of our internal testing covering the different modules, content management system, functionality, network, etc. This ensures that everything is working for all of our clients and future clients, leaving them with the Beta testing to give us the seal of approval.

Navigating the complexities of mobile app testing might sound daunting, especially if you don’t consider yourself tech-savvy. But don’t stress, with a portfolio of over 50 satisfied customers, the team at Info Grove has helped walk many non-developers through the successful beta testing of their mobile apps.

If you have questions about having a mobile app developed for your organization, we’d love to help you out. Book a call to learn more about how Info Grove works with organizations to help launch mobile apps that help engage and inform their communities.

Karim Mansour is an Inside Sales Representative at 14 Oranges, the creators of the Info Grove platform.