Case Study - Automated Testing Infrastructure for Mobile Apps

Challenge

We needed a reliable way to ensure the quality of growing portfolio of mobile applications. Manual testing was becoming increasingly time-consuming and inconsistent as their app ecosystem expanded. They required a solution that could automatically test multiple applications daily across different devices and operating systems to catch issues before they reached production.

Solution

We designed and implemented a comprehensive testing infrastructure tailored to the company's specific requirements:

• Cross-platform test framework: Using Appium and XCTest, we created a unified testing approach that works consistently across iOS and Android applications, reducing the maintenance burden of separate test suites.

• Automated test scheduling: The infrastructure runs comprehensive test suites daily, with selective testing triggered by code changes in the CI/CD pipeline. This ensures thorough coverage while optimizing resource usage.

• Centralized reporting dashboard: Test results are automatically aggregated into a centralized dashboard that highlights regressions, provides trend analysis, and offers detailed logs for troubleshooting.

Results

The automated testing infrastructure has significantly improved the company's development workflow:

Increased reliability: Critical bugs are now caught earlier in the development cycle, reducing customer-reported issues by approximately 40%.

Faster releases: The development team can now release updates with greater confidence, shortening the QA cycle from weeks to days.

Better resource allocation: By automating repetitive test cases, the QA team now focuses on exploratory testing and improving test coverage rather than manual regression testing.

What we did