Mobile App Testing: Devices, Fragmentation, and What Actually Matters

Interruptions (calls, backgrounding), permissions flows, network transitions (Wi-Fi→cellular→dead zone), and battery/storage pressure — where mobile bugs actually live.

Critical journeys on a small real-device set in CI; exploratory and release passes staying human — full-matrix automation is a cost center wearing a QA costume.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.