Nowadays mobile apps have been regarded as an important part of the software development. Both developers and testers of software wonder to know whether the iPhone apps or iPad apps should be tested to see their differences from traditional windows based or mac based apps. Actually, good software testing principles is applicable no matter what the platform is. So, they should be tested but only to a certain extent. Some differences between mobile apps and traditional windows based or mac based apps are obvious. However, some other differences may be more obscure. First, an iPad or iPhone app run on the hardware that is different from a PC/MAC. Second, the way to input is completely different since iPad or iPhone use a touch-screen. Third, their installation way is also different. From a software tester’s perspective, the iPad has aroused a heat discussion. Now iPad specific apps are being developed. They are actually more similar to the traditional software apps for the PC or MAC. They have various features and more complex than before. Below is a typical methodology to test an iPad app.
Test Report
Most iPad app testing companies are supposed to provide a thorough test report to customers. This is a key piece of documentation and probably the only evidence of your app’s quality prior to release as well as after release.
Defects Found
The screen-short feature, a great built-in feature of the iPad, can help iPad testers to a large extent. With this feature, the tester can simply press the power button and then the main circle button. Through this way the photo on the device is captured and saved. This photo can then be sent by emails to the developing company along with instructions on how to fix it. When some unthinkable problem happens, that is, a “crash”, the iPad saves crash log files to its internal hard drive. When the iPad is next synced to a PC/MAC, these log files can also be emailed to the developing company to aid in fixing the bug that caused the crash.
App Delivery/ Installation
Before the app’s release, the iPad is usually sent to the app testing company or app tester. And a provisioning file is necessary to accompany the app which contains the UDID’s of the app testing company’s test iPads. The provisioning file and the app can easily be dropped into iTunes and loaded onto the iPad.
Exploratory Testing
Once the provisioning file and the app are loaded onto the iPad, most iPad tester is to walk-through the app’s key functionality and to take a quick exploratory test. In fact, they should use previous insights from testing similar apps, or make full use of the app’s supporting documentation to perform a more thorough test.
Additional Testing
There are many other ways to test an iPad app which is usually performed relating to networks, performance, usability, stability, etc. If you don’t know exactly what kind of testing your iPad app needs, then contact a credible iPad app testing company.
Final thoughts
Nowadays the market is competitive, it is essential to guarantee an iPad app hits the store as perfect as possible. However, only a few negative ratings on iTunes can tell people an app’s download figures drop drastically. In fact, most negative ratings are for some simple bugs that are supposed to be checked when using an iPad testing company.



















