Installation Testing of Mobile App

Installation testing plays a major role in Mobile application testing. Here are some of the key factors testers verify while performing the Installation Testing to mobile app.

TechTutorialz Installation Testing for Mobile Apps

Keep track of Mobile app size:

Monitor the App size before and after installing on the device.

Incase the application size is big, offer developers to use optimisation tools to reduce the size of the application.

Application size plays a crucial role. Mobile users decide whether to install the app or not by looking at the size of the application.

Note:

The maximum size of an APK file published on Google Play is 50 MB, which can be expanded to 4 GB. That is, after 50 MB, developers can have 2 extensions of 2 GB each. (As a user, you can download an application / game up to 4 GB)

In the case of iOS, you can download up to 50 MB of files over the air (mobile). Then iOS recommends the user to install the program on WI-FI. The maximum size limit for IPA is 2 GB.

Make sure the installation and uninstallation are clean:

Although the installation / uninstallation of app seems to be simple initially, make sure to uninstall the application removing all files associated with your device’s application.

The developer may decide to retain some resources on your device, for example. Your pictures and other similar files remain on the device even after you uninstall the application while in other similar applications, as well, these kinds of files should be also removed from the device.

Verification for the smallest and maximum version of the operating system:

Check the installation of the program on the least supported version of the mobile operating system (this may be critical because the requirement indicates that the application can run on a particular version (e.g., Android 2.3), but the developer has chosen a higher version of the API ‘one to run on devices with this version.

Check the installation of the program on the latest version of the mobile operating system (it is unnecessary to say that your application must be installed and run correctly on the latest operating system released by a platform.

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Keep track of Mobile app size:

Make sure the installation and uninstallation are clean:

Verification for the smallest and maximum version of the operating system:

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