Mobile Application Testing in Pakistan: A Survey

Muhammad Saqib; Zafar Iqbal; Muhammad Ikram Ullah Lali; Raza ul Mustafa

doi:10.22581/muet1982.1801.02

Muhammad Saqib Department of Information Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
Zafar Iqbal Department of Computer Science, University of Lahore, Sargodha Campus
Muhammad Ikram Ullah Lali Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Sargodha
Raza ul Mustafa Department of Computer Science, University of Lahore, Sargodha Campus

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22581/muet1982.1801.02

Abstract

Research regarding MAT (Mobile Application Testing) in Pakistan is hard to discover and to the best of our knowledge, no work has been done in surveying MAT in Pakistan. In this work, we have examined the current trend and status of MAT in Pakistan. Main objective was to investigate to what extent MAT is currently applied in Pakistan software companies and what experience the companies have with using MAT. Furthermore, efforts were made to find out what testers think about MAT, e.g. issue, advantages and disadvantages of MAT, what factors affects MAT and how they plan to improve MAT. In order to achieve our objectives, we used a comprehensive online survey so we converted our research questions into correspondence survey questions. We served a questionnaire of the survey to 66 testing relevant officials of leading software companies in different cities of Pakistan to develop a model study about general trend and status of MAT which can be generalized all over Pakistan. We received 56 replies in total after over 2 months. After that, we used SPSS tool to analyze the replies of this questionnaire. Cross-Tabulation Analysis and Pearson Chi-square tests have been computed to examine the results. We found some interesting results on current status and practice of MAT in Pakistan software companies.