Mobile App Testing

Q: What are the three pillars of a mobile application testing strategy?

The three critical pillars of mobile application testing strategy are device performance, API/server performance, and network performance.

Q: What is a test case runner?

A test case runner is a software application that enables the testing of mobile applications by simulating the environment representing both the device and the end-users. It aids in determining whether the application is ready for release.

Q: What is a protocol-based performance test for mobile applications?

Protocol-based performance testing methodology for mobile applications comprises simulating virtual users by generating a high level of demand at the protocol level and measuring performance based on demand-response behavior. During peak hours, throughput, response times, and errors are tracked as client-side metrics.

Remotely test and debug mobile, web, audio and video applications on thousands of devices around the world.

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Test your mobile apps on real devices in
90+ locations worldwide

Perform mobile app testing on real devices remotely

Execute pre-release mobile testing in real user conditions

Don’t rely on simulations. Conduct automated mobile app testing on real networks using actual devices on our Global Device Infrastructure.

Enable remote device control and debugging

Access and debug mobile apps on real devices from your desktop or phones without SDK or local team support.

Choose the most popular devices for testing

Select from a wide range of tablets and mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Xiaomi, Pixel, etc.

Execute multiple tests on mobile apps simultaneously

Use real devices instead of emulators and simulators

Conduct reliable test sessions on real devices without any virtual machines.

Run multiple tests in parallel

Test on as many concurrent iOS or Android devices as you want without any slowdown.

Schedule your tests

Run multiple automated or manual tests at your convenience.

Automate various test cases with HeadSpin’s integration capabilities

Work smarter with automation

Integrate with automated testing frameworks: Appium, Selenium, and Appium Inspector.

Compatible technologies with HeadSpin include Charles Proxy, Xcode, Android Studio, Flutter, Cucumber, Espresso Android, Experitest, WebPage Test, FitNesse, KIF, UI Automator, Junit, XCTest, Calabash, Unified Functional Testing, TestNG, Earlgrey, Puppeteer, Playwright, Jira, Slack, and Jenkins.

Get automation API access with audio/video capture

Measure and understand your audio and video quality at scale.

Perform biometric testing

Get a full suite of automation instrumentation for biometrics testing (fingerprints, Face ID, etc.).

Monitor and test the audio and video quality of mobile apps

Test for localization, context, and cultural correctness

Understand cultural and e-commerce nuances, payment processes, location information, copy and content, new international features, translations, and more.

Perform real-time audio playback and microphone quality testing

Test audio quality around the world for speech-enabled apps and audio streaming.

Use HeadSpin’s professional services support

Get professional services support for scripting, dashboard creation, performance tests, weekly reports, and more.

Leverage HeadSpin’s reference-free video MOS

Measure video and streaming content quality with unique user experience KPIs, including a patent-pending reference-free Video MOS, based on computer vision and machine learning.

Test voice call and text messaging features of mobile apps

Understand the quality of your voice and messaging features.

Run thousands of tests parallelly at scale without worrying about device availability with our reliable global device infrastructure.

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Leverage a reliable global device infrastructure

Key Functions and Capabilities

Any application running on any device, anywhere in the world

Thousands of real mobile test devices

Get seamless access to remote devices equipped with real SIM cards through our secure global device cloud. Choose from our wide range of iOS and Android devices, including a wide range of screen sizes and operating systems for performance testing on mobile devices.

Locations around the globe

Test real user experience anywhere in the world with any combination of operating system, devices, and network with our mobile app testing tool. Add new locations instantly.

Flexible distributed system

HeadSpin’s proprietary mobile app testing tool with proprietary hardware enables you to immediately and securely scale up your remote testing efforts. Developers can securely connect with their remote devices and monitor non-noise interfered data through our proprietary RF compliant hardware and custom USB hub. Our hardware can be added to new locations beyond our 150 countries on request.

Find, reproduce, and fix bugs instantly

Bug reproducibility

Reproduce the highest priority issues and resolve these bugs wherever they might be across the client-server communications. No more billions of logs! HeadSpin offers behind-the-scenes visibility into your performance issues—from server, CDN, network, application to device—against your test flows so that you can quickly resolve the most important bugs. Save time by not having to reproduce the user experience and performance issues over and over again.

Natural gestures and interactions

Interact with your mobile app on the remote device, just as you would with a real device in hand. Tap, scroll, zoom, swipe and more.

Real-time mobile test viewing

View our tests as they execute and logs as they are created.

Local testing

Test your app in development environments. Our local testing feature allows you to test your apps on your development and staging environment. All the server calls that your mobile application makes over development/staging network, will work out of the box! No set up required.

Smart app management

Never upload the same build twice. Simply select from builds uploaded by you or your team and start testing right away. All versions in one machine
No need to check device compatibility. We automatically identify the devices with OS version supported by your mobile application.

Testing Scheduler

Enables multiple tests to be run at the same time and not conflict. Automated tests can run while manual tests are running without conflict. Reserve times in advance to use devices for manual or automated tests.

(aka “reservation system”)

Avoid uncoordinated tests that mess each other up. Seamlessly works with an integration server.

Real-time audio playback and voice support/Audio and voice remote control

Check and measure audio quality around the world for speech-enabled apps and audio streaming. Preview apps and monitor audio experience in real-time.

Audio and video quality scores reporting

Get automated assessment of speech quality as experienced by a user of a voice-enabled app. This assessment accounts for the varying dimensions and speeds of mobile video and audio streaming.
No more scoring based on user feedback. Get reliable and real world audio and quality metrics that take into account real world conditions.

API

Use our service plugins and API to automatically get results from your environments

Issue tracking systems integrations

Integrate with your issue tracking service (JIRA, ServiceNow etc). Receive and seamlessly act on user experience issue alerts

CI and DevOps workflow integration

Seamlessly integrate with your continuous integration and deployment environments (e.g. Jenkins, Travis CI).

BI integration

Easily integrates with your business intelligence tools and dashboards. All data is exported via API and sql tables. Actively monitor your user experience and performance data through your business intelligence dashboards

Automated test integration

Captures data from all tests across all frameworks so you have a single dashboard of all your test results.

IDE integration

Offers full developer tool integrations and works with mobile chrome and Safari debugging. Bridge your remote devices to your local hosts so you can use your local developer tools on all remote devices.

Device management and configuration APIst

Integrate with your internal dashboards / monitoring scripts and integration server.

Automation API and support

Automate tests to maintain application consistency around the world. Kick start your automated testing process with our expert support.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. What are the three pillars of a mobile application testing strategy?

Q2. What is a test case runner?

Q3. What is a protocol-based performance test for mobile applications?

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Mobile App Testing

Trusted by Enterprises Worldwide

Test your mobile apps on real devices in 90+ locations worldwide

Pre-release mobile testing in real user conditions

Remote device control and debugging

Choose the most popular devices in 90+ locations

Perform mobile app testing on real devices remotely

Execute pre-release mobile testing in real user conditions

Enable remote device control and debugging

Choose the most popular devices for testing