Testing a Mobile Application makes you think on different aspects of a mobile application.Excessive data call can also be considered as one of the pretty good test case while testing a Mobile Application.It can be a case when your Mobile Application in doing good in its working and functionality but still a user don’t want to use it.The reason behind it would may be your mobile application is making unnecessary request(which could have been prevented) which is annoying your user.
A Mobile Developer should keep in consideration this case while developing a mobile application that his application is not making unnecessary data call where it is not required.As a Mobile Quality Analyst, along with conventional validations and verification testing it is very important to look in to such kind of scenarios which can surely impact on overall success of that application in the market.
When your mobile application is making unnecessary data calls where it is not required, directly or indirectly you are making your users to pay a bit more for your application/or services.Also when you make such requests, some times you are making user to wait for that action to complete in which user is really not interested.
So now onwards whenever a new mobile application is coming to you for testing,apart from conventional test cases try to to think on this aspect also.
January 11, 2011 at 11:08 am
[...] few days back in my post “Test your mobile application for unnecessary excessive data calls” we had discussed that developer should make sure that application is not making any [...]
January 25, 2012 at 8:43 am
Sometimes it is very annoying to get unnecessary phone calls, and if we get such tool or technique so that we do not receive unnecessary calls.