Solving the Top 6 Mobile Automation Challenges Fast (DevAssure Guide)

Are you tired of struggling with the mobile test automation setups?

Does managing devices and maintaining separate Android and iOS test suites consume too much of your valuable time?

You’re not alone.

In our annual TestGuild community survey, 44% of our members are using mobile testing and 53% of them are facing important issues with infrastructure and multivendor coordination.

In this practical guide, we’ll show how DevAssure’s unique mobile testing platform solves these typical problems for automation engineers like you with 6 features designed for you.

The Mobile Testing Challenge

First, let’s acknowledge the reality many automation engineers face daily:

• It is complex to set up the environment for both the Android and iOS platforms.
• The challenge of managing devices and emulators across various configurations.
• The development of separate test suites for various platforms.
• The challenge of mobile elements, especially in hybrid apps.
• The additional complexity of iOS requirements.

These challenges aren’t just frustrating—they directly impact productivity.

At 40% of our community’s time being spent on test development and execution, any inefficiency in mobile testing tooling and workflows can significantly eat into your team resources.

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But you need not worry!

DevAssure has developed a comprehensive solution that addresses these exact pain points.

Let’s look at the six key features that make their platform stand out.

Zero-Setup Device Management

Setting up and configuring devices and emulators has been, for a long time, a time-consuming process.

The new solutions include:

• The ability to download Android and iOS required libraries without having to install them.
• Integrated device control of emulators and actual devices.
• Simplified commands that do not require complex settings.

This approach solves one of the top challenges our community has identified: mobile testing infrastructure.

By centralizing device management, you can probably reduce the time spent on infrastructure management tasks by approximately 15%.

This also solves one of the four destroyers of any automation testing script that I covered in a previous post.

Implementation Tip: DevAssure provides a single interface for controlling both Android and iOS devices without the need for separate configuration panels.

Intelligent Mobile Recording Capabilities

For those teams who want to reduce the time spent on test creation (a key efficiency challenge for 25% of our community), intelligent recording can be a game changer. This makes it easier for DevAssure’s intelligent recorder to create stable test scripts:

• It is a cross-platform application that is suitable for Android and iOS.
• Automatic selection of the best locator.
• The ability to work with the web views within the native app.
• No need to know XPath.

This technology helps to bridge the gap between manual and automated testing so that teams can create accurate test scripts that may require significant coding in other tools. Also I cover codeless automation in my top trends report so I think this feature is a must have.

Real-world Impact: Those who have used intelligent recording to create their tests have saved a lot of time in test creation, allowing them to focus more on the test strategy than the actual implementation.

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Unified Page Object Models

For those organizations that have both the Android and iOS versions of their applications (this applies to virtually everyone in the Test Guild community doing mobile testing), the unified page object models bring numerous advantages:

• Define a page object once and use it on both platforms.
• Add platform specific locators in the same file.
• Implement “write once, run anywhere” approach.
• At runtime, use the appropriate elements.

This approach directly addresses the cross-platform testing coordination challenge identified in our community survey by not repeating code and thus simplifying the overall maintenance effort.

Best Practice: You also want to group your page objects by feature instead of by platform to ensure that you can reuse them easily and make your tests easier to understand.

Cloud Integration for Scalability

For those teams that do not have many physical devices or the Mac hardware needed for iOS testing, cloud integration can be a good solution:

• Straightforward integration with device clouds like BrowserStack.
• The ability to record and execute on cloud devices.
• No-code automation for cloud execution.
• Tests are grouped and labelled automatically.

This capability fits well with the 25% of our community’s time spent on process improvement and innovation, which means that teams can increase device coverage without increasing the size of their physical device lab.

Strategy Note: The cloud integration is most valuable for covering the edges and the less popular devices that are unlikely to be purchased and supported in the internal environment.

Smart Test Execution

Improving test execution time (another key efficiency challenge that our community faces)  is much easier with:

• Parallel testing support.
• Dynamic device management during test runs.
• The ability to combine cloud and local devices in a single test suite.
• No extra  settings required.

This approach allows teams to leverage their existing infrastructure to the maximum while reducing the time spent  on comprehensive testing to the minimum.

Performance Insight: Teams that apply smart parallel execution tend to have a  HUGE reduction in the time it takes to run the tests, which affects the delivery speed directly.

The resources between web and mobile testing are shared

A number of people in our Test Guild community  and I have found that working with web application testing along with mobile, the ability to share resources between  platforms is very valuable:

• Use the same API calls and test data across platforms.
• Share environment configurations.
• Use common utilities and libraries.
• Combine database queries across test types.

This integration helps to break the barriers between the testing teams and to provide for the more consistent quality  approaches across the delivery channels.

Integration Tip: First, centralize your test data management and API interface  layers as these are the most likely to be shared between web and mobile tests.

Why Mobile Matters:  The Business Impact

To the technical decision makers (who make up a large segment of our Test Guild  community) these solutions deliver compelling business benefits:

1. Reduced Maintenance Burden: Less time fixing broken  tests means more time adding value through new test coverage.
2. Faster Test Creation: Allows the team  to maintain the pace of the development cyclone.
3. Broader Device Coverage: Testing on more  configurations without proportional cost increases.
4. Shorter Execution Times: Gives faster feedback to the developers and  shorten the release cycles.
5. Better Resource Utilization: Maximizing the use of existing team skills  and infrastructure.

Since 41% of our community has 15+ years of experience, these benefits  are directly translated into better resource allocation decisions and more strategic approaches to quality.

Getting Started: A Practical  Approach

If you are ready to change the way you approach mobile testing, then please consider the following  step by step approach:

1. Audit Your Current Challenges: Determine which of the six problem areas  is most annoying to your team
2. Pilot a Solution: Don’t try to do it  all at once, but rather start with one area to improve.
3. Measure the Impact:  Define the success criteria to track to include time to create a test or time to run a test.
4. Scale Gradually: Propagate effective approaches to more projects and teams.

But if you  really want to speed up your mobile testing, why not try DevAssure?

How to Start with  DevAssure?

Ready to make your mobile testing strategy simpler?

At DevAssure, we  provide a free trial that allows you to try these features out for yourself. Here is how to get  started:

1. Go to the DevAssure website
2. Create a free account
3. Follow the quick start guide to set up your environment.
4. You can perform your first mobile test automation within minutes.

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Conclusion

It doesn’t have to be a chore to do mobile test automation. With the help of DevAssure, you can say goodbye to environment woes, achieve test architecture harmony across various platforms, leverage cloud resources, and conduct your tests faster than ever before.

Whether you are a professional automation engineer or new to mobile testing, DevAssure provides the tools that you need to build better quality mobile applications with less time and trouble.