App Performance Testing
  • 14 Feb 2025
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Overview

App Performance Testing ensures that a mobile or web application runs smoothly under various conditions by evaluating speed, stability, scalability, and responsiveness. It helps identify bottlenecks, optimize resource usage, and improve the user experience. App performance testing evaluates various aspects of the app like UI rendering, device health, network interactions, and end-to-end workflows. It keeps tracks of metrics like Frame Render Time, CPU & Memory Usage, Battery Drain, API Latency, and Network Efficiency to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks. Monitoring these aspect can help teams ensure stability under varying conditions. Monitoring real-time API responses, third-party SDKs, and perceptual video/audio QoE helps validate complex workflows. With Pcloudy’s App Performance Testing capabilities, developers can optimize app performance, prevent crashes, and deliver seamless user experiences across all environments with much ease.

  • Prerequsites

  • Users must have the App Performance capability enabled

  • Ensure that the APK/IPA file is instrumented/resigned for App Performance Testing.

Steps

  1. Click on the App Performance Testing

  2. Click on Connect on any available devices

  3. Simply click on the Mydata link at the bottom of the Application dialog box.

  4. This will open the My Data space, click on the Upload File and Browse to upload the APK/IPA file.

  5. Once the app is uploaded, the user will receive a success notification.

  6. Click on the Android/iOS icon to instrument the app for App Performance Testing.

    Note - Please ensure that you instrument/resign the APK/IPA file for App Performance testing

  7. Once the app is instrumented, the user will receive a success notification, and the app will be ready to use.

  8. Go back to Start, choose Performance Testing and Connect to any available devices.

  9. Select the Instrumented App for performance testing and click Connect.

  10. Once the device is connected. Click on Record to start testing your app’s performance.

  11. Perform all the required actions or test scenarios and click on Release.

  12. Click on View Reports to access the reports dashboard, and click on the Chart icon to access the App Performance Report.

Other Help Guides on App Performance Report

  1. Click Here to Learn How to Navigate through the App Performance Report.

  2. Click Here to Understand Reading the App Performance Report.

  3. Click Here to Learn about the What different Performance Issues Mean.


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