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Mobile is the new King

Real-world Testing Tools for Production

More and more ecommerce companies fund and test consumer apps that are centered around mobility. Smartphones have invaded all aspects of people's lives from business ordering to acting as personal assistants, and intelligence forecasts predict that smartphones have accounted for 59 percent of all phone usage in 2016, and continues to be more prevalent than desktop. Google even penalizes your site rankings if it's not mobile friendly. Savvy companies don't just develop, buy or release new consumer apps without testing them, and Xamarin's cloud-based testing platform for enterprise apps and their user interfaces offers extraordinary business benefits by validating these applications in real-world business scenarios. A recent study found that consumers spend about 86 percent of their time on smartphones using apps. Mobile devices account for 60 percent of consumer time spent on digital media, so app development is increasingly critical for ecommerce.

Load Testing 2,000 Devices

Xamarin Test Cloud

Testing ecommerce applications thoroughly on the Xamarin platform offers ecommerce companies extraordinary benefits by troubleshooting errors in the code, sharing code across multiple operating systems and categorizing and qualifying apps for sale on Google Play and the iOS App Store. Even testing for iOS apps grows increasingly more complicated because Apple products have begun to diverge from each other. Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs have diverged substantially into different ecosystems like OS X and iOS X, and even small changes can affect how apps function and integrate with ecommerce platforms.

Adding Android to the mix of screen sizes, pixel densities and aspect ratios seriously complicates app testing for developers and ecommerce companies. Connection types, battery life, power consumption and usability in global markets also make the process of testing applications overwhelming -- especially if done manually. The Xamarin testing platform simplifies matters by providing technology in the cloud that can test Web apps, native apps and combination apps. Using Xamarin accelerates the testing process of using up to 2,000 real devices. Testers can do everything that their app’s users do -- from pinching and scrolling to swiping and double-tapping. You can track and monitor your tests, record test data, analyze performance issues and test on both Android and iOS.

Automate testing on 2,000+ devices
Test on hundreds of different brands and physical device models
Bridge the differences between operating systems with Xamarin’s automatic bridging code
Simplify the testing of international apps where regional traits, target audiences, time zones and language problems, such as right-to-left script, invalidate many testing successes of global products
Analyze the app’s performance at each step and for every feature
Prepare apps for immediate distribution on Google Play and the Apple App Store
Xamarin developers can help developers to automate their tests for apps
Eliminate the need for staff involvement, which reduces the risk of human error, or bring in staff at key testing junctures if the ecommerce platform supports this kind of automatic notifications

Developers can test exhaustively with automatic testing at record-breaking speeds and minimal costs when compared to traditional testing. Testing on multiple devices isn't a luxury in today's environment of technical one-upmanship. Surveys show that manual testing has become less effective and more cost-prohibitive because it now requires developers to test their products on at least 134 devices just to cover 75 of the U.S. market.

Mac or Windows

Cross-Platform Support

Xamarins cross-platform development isn't required language for the testing, and any developer who's familiar with .NET/C# or JAVA/Objective-C can work with Xamarin. Xamarin testing supports all three platforms for constructing mobile apps that include:

Xamarin Studio on Mac
Xamarin Studio on Windows
Visual Studio on Windows

Xamarins framework runs test scripts that are written in C# and Calabash in Ruby. Developers who are already using Xamarin get the added advantage of building scripts in the same language as the rest of the company's initiatives its and overall development process. Testing apps in Xamarin, however, isn’t required because even hybrid apps that mix native apps with HTML5 work at 100-percent efficiency with the Xamarin Test Cloud.

Building Test Scripts

Xamarin Test Recorder

Mobile testing -- whether manual or automated testing -- can be an expensive, inconclusive and laborious process, but the Xamarin Test Recorder saves time, money and reputations by capturing, identifying and recording user-interface interactions through automated testing.

One of the inevitable results of today's development speed, demand for mobile apps and agile-development practices is consumer apps with bugs, incomplete testing and anticipated obsolescence. Xamarin's Test Recorder helps developers address all these quality issues quickly and inexpensively.

3 Steps to Success

Using Xamarin Test Recorder

The stand-alone Xamarin test recorder keeps an intuitive record of each UI test so that developers don't waste data or duplicate their work. Developers can test everything that their apps are designed to do in three steps: recording the automated testing code, uploading the binary app to the cloud to run on more than 2,000 devices and studying the generated data. Step-by-step instructions include the following operations:

Record the test in NUnit if writing in C# or Cucumber if using Calabash in Ruby
Au automation library is necessary for running the test because the testing codes are frameworks that don't interact with the app
Xamarin enables running the tests on Android or different iOS operating systems by providing the code that bridges the systems so that separate coding isn't necessary
The left side of the screen displays all the actions that the Test Recorder performed and can include everything that users can do with the app
The right-hand side of the screen displays the C# code of each generated test method
Toolbars include buttons to start, stop, replay and export the test
The Test Recorder Plugin is code with a library that's automatically inserted in iOS systems but isn't needed for Android
IPAs with the Test Recorder Plugin will be rejected by the Apple App Store, so provide a clean copy of the code for Apple App Store submissions

Choosing a Smart ecommerce Platform

ecommerce with Built-in Data Insights & App Analytics

Testing is just one part of the process of app development because enterprise ecommerce companies have many demands on their digital, marketing and automated processes. The best ecommerce platform offers tools for growing your apps to generate more revenue and increase customer engagement. Analytics in real-time allow administrators to troubleshoot any unforeseen problems, authorize more testing and act on data by various triggers like event completion, changes in operating system, device usage, retention stats and session behavior. The right ecommerce software complements automated app testing with the following benefits:

Fine-tune the sales or lead generation funnel
Measure return-on-investments to drive future app-development and marketing strategies
Use app insights to craft marketing and social media campaigns to support further app-based strategies
Increase app engagement with real-time sales and usage data

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