Mobile Testing Interview question

Question 1

What is the best way to test different screen sizes of the devices?

Answer 1

Use emulator

Question 2

Which suspend evens on mobile devices do you lnow?

Answer 2

Incoming call
Alarm

Question 3

What are the types of mobile application?

Answer 3

Hybrid
Web mobile

Question 4

What is the extension of Android files?

Answer 4

.apk

Question 5

What is the extension of iOS files?

Answer 5

.ipa

Question 6

Which device orientation do you know?

Answer 6

Portrait
Landscape

Question 7

Which of the following is a characteristic of mobile application?

Answer 7

Run on handheld devices
Are specific to particular hardware
Are available in large numbers

Question 8

What are the mobile application category?

Answer 8

Web-based
Hybrid
Native

Question 9

You mentioned in your resume you did mobile testing. Did you test software or hardware?

Answer 9

Share your experience in mobile testing.

Question 10

Did you use emulators?

Answer 10

Yes, I used BrowserStack. (Watch video how to use it)

Question 11

What is the best way to test different screen sizes of the devices?

Answer 11

You can use emulator

Question 12

What are the common challenges in mobile application testing?

Answer 12

Working on different operating systems
a variety of handsets
different networks
a variety of screen sizes.

Question 13

Which suspend events on mobile devices do you know?

Answer 13

All mobile devices have a lot of different suspend events. Here are some of them:
Incoming call
Incoming message
Alarm
Low battery signal
Auto-Sleep mode.

Question 14

What do you mean by the Application Package?

Answer 14

The application package means the target application which needs to be tested for finding various errors, performance parameters, and other important information regarding an application.

Question 15

Tell me about your mobile testing experience.

Answer 15

Tell about your project, tools, and technical skills.

Question 16

What is your favorite mobile application, and what would you add to it?

Answer 16

You should share your personal experience: Example: I like youtube and I would like to see more improvements on subtitles.

Question 17

What is the difference between Mobile device testing and mobile application testing?

Answer 17

Mobile device testing means testing the mobile device and mobile application testing means testing of the mobile application on a mobile device.

Question 18

What are the types of mobile applications?

Answer 18

Native, Hybrid, Web

Question 19

What is the latest version of iOS?

Answer 19

You should Google the latest version and remember it before the interview.

Question 20

What is the latest version of Android?

Answer 20

You should Google the latest version and remember it before the interview.

Question 21

What is the extension of Android files?

Answer 21

.apk (Android application package).

Question 22

What is the extension of iOS files?

Answer 22

.ipa

Question 23

What are all major networks to be considered while performing application testing?

Answer 23

You should test the application on 4G, 3G, 2G, and WIFI. 2G is a slower network, it’s good if you verify your application on a slower network also to track your application performance.

Question 24

What are the tools based on cloud-based mobile testing?

Answer 24

Perfecto Mobile, AWS Device Farm, BrowserStack, SauceLabs.

Question 25

What are the bugs you have found out while performing mobile application testing during your experience?

Answer 25

There are many things that can go wrong with a mobile application and all the bugs couldn’t be categorized under the same headline. Some of the common ones are crashing the phone OS during the test of a feature on the phone. Not able to perform any task on the phone, GUI, bugs, a specific feature of an application is not operating (this is very common). In addition to this, the other ones are:
Slow performance of an application;
Totally unresponsive behavior of an app.

Question 26

What is the most common problem with the emulators according to you?

Answer 26

They often fail to capture the important attributes of a device. Also, they suffer a lot from compatibility issues if no open-source technology is considered.