Testing for mobile performance and handling is crucial and even more so in this day and age where we need to develop engaging apps while meeting tough deadlines. Recently, we took up the challenge of addressing the concerns while building a platform for performance testing tools that are Open Source, easy to use, with advanced capabilities for both app developers and testers.
Web performance is critical to modern web applications. This is why nCircle has released performance testing tools as open source for mobile devices. The initial release includes iOS and Android app testing guides, along with an updated version of the Command line test runner (yt). The nCircle Mobile Performance Testing Tools (mPTT) provides customers with an easy-to-use-toolset that allows them to create performance tests to measure page loads, complete transactions, and responsiveness on iOS and Android devices.
Avo Assure
Avo Assure is a no-code, heterogeneous test automation solution that enables you to test applications across web and mobile for both Android and iOS platforms.
Some of the key features of Avo Assure include:
- The 100% no-code capability equips you to test applications without writing a single line of code.
- The heterogeneous capability helps you test applications across the web, windows, mobile platforms (Android and IOS), non-UI (web services, batch jobs), ERPs, Mainframe systems, and associated emulators through one solution – enabling end-to-end test automation.
- The easy-to-use and intuitive UI makes testing seamless.
- The Smart Scheduling and Execution feature lets you execute multiple scenarios in a single VM independently or in parallel.
Katalon Studio
Katalon Studio is the leading Appium alternative for mobile testing. Trusted by 850,000 users, it also brings extended capabilities for web, API, and desktop testing.
Supporting IOS and Android platforms, some of its key features are:
- No complex setup or programming background is required.
- Versatile automated test design with record & playback, built-in keywords, pre-defined project templates, and a friendly UI.
- Cross-environment testing on real devices, emulators, or cloud-based devices with Kobiton, Perfecto, SauceLabs, LambdaTest, and BrowserStack integration.
- Reduce maintenance efforts with a powerful object spying utility.
- Advanced graphs to visualize essential metrics and real-time notifications after each execution (Slack, Git& Microsoft Teams).
Bug Hunter
Bug Hunter is a manual mobile testing tool designed primarily for UI testing of Android apps. Besides manual testers, it can be used by Android developers or UI/UX designers who can check the app or certain features themselves before it goes to the QA stage.
Bug Hunter covers all the essentials of UI testing and ensures maximum convenience in terms of access to the tools – no need to leave the current screen to switch between the tools or to adjust the settings.
Here is what Bug Hunter offers:
- Device Details: Access and share the hardware specifications, or add device details to screenshots.
- Rulers & Guides: Check the alignment of UI components.
- Grid: Determine the sizes of UI elements and margins between them.
- Mockups: Make sure the app’s layout matches the specs or preview a new design on a real device.
- Color Picker: Find out the color code of any pixel on the screen and check UI components for half pixels.
- Screenshot & Longshot: Make a screenshot in one tap and quality long shots without any manual editing.
- Record Video: Record, pause, and resume the video at your convenience.
Katalon Studio
Built on top of Appium and Selenium, Katalon Studio removes the tools’ existing steep learning curve and in turn brings a codeless testing experience to users at all scales and expertise. In addition to supporting Android & IOS platforms, testing across OS (Windows, macOS, and Linux) is also available.
Features:
- Simple setup and effortless test creation using record & playback, keywords, images.
- Execute tests locally and remotely on real devices, simulators, or custom cloud-based devices (Sauces Lab, Kobiton, Perfecto, Lambda Test, etc.)
- Flexible test reusability across mobile platforms, API, and Web.
- Reduce maintenance efforts via built-in integration with commonly used project management tools (Jira, Git, Jenkins, etc.)
- Provide insightful test reports of all testing stages for better monitor and collaboration across teams.
Eggplant
Eggplant allows you to conduct end-to-end testing of mobile apps and websites
Features:
- Easily conduct functional and performance tests of your mobile app or website.
- Test everything from the UI to the API layer to the database.
- Automatically hunt for bugs that directed or manual testing may miss.
- Use one set of testing models and assets to test mobile apps across different devices, operating systems, browsers, and screen sizes.
- Instrument your apps and websites to truly understand user behavior and automatically prioritize testing of user journeys on the most used devices.
- Eggplant seamlessly integrates into your CI/CD pipeline.
Apptim
Apptim empowers mobile developers, testers, and managers to easily test their native apps and analyze client-side performance to prevent any critical issues from going live. Measure app render times, power consumption, resource usage, capture crashes, and more on Android and iOS devices.
Highlighted Features
- Native App Testing: Apptim evaluates the performance of native Android and iOS mobile apps while running them on real devices.
- Performance and Bug Reports: After each test session, the tool generates a report with the performance metrics and bugs that you may find during your test session with Apptim.
- JIRA Integration: Publish and track bugs directly in this project management tool.
- Easy to Use: Apptim’s user interface is elegant and intuitive, making it a simple tool to use. Also, on the website, you can find detailed documentation that will help you through your first steps with the tool and you have support available every step of the way.
- Compare Two Test Sessions: If you repeat a test for a particular feature once a new version of your app is ready, you can compare the results to see if there are any big differences in the performance.
- Supports Appium Test Automation: Run your Appium tests and capture performance metrics while using Apptim and integrate with any CI server.
Pricing
Apptim has free and paid plans that also come with free trials.
Conclusion
High-performance mobile web applications are essential for creating competitive companies. The faster the mobile app, the more likely people will buy products or make sales on mobile devices. Now you can test how mobile apps perform on mobile devices using the same Open Source tools used by some of the top mobile performance testing companies around.