What is iPhone App Crash Report?

Software development has increased in recent times, the software’s are being updated on quick basis meeting the requirement of new advanced technologies. And apps are becoming more and more popular, for they make everything available on quick basis. Henceforth, there is always a persistent competition amongst the app developers and providers. This is why it’s crucial for iPhone App developers to provide not only a good app but a highest quality app. This is where high quality App Testing is a mandatory requirement.

A crash report is created & stored on the device, when an application crashes on an iOS device. iPhone Crash report gives a complete feed on the reasons as to why the application got terminated. In certain cases including a complete back trace for each executing thread, proves to be useful for debugging issues in the application. An iOS developer needs to analyze these reports in order to understand and rectify the crashes occurring.  

Demand for a crash log while troubleshooting crashes, to determine what is happening. Here’s what’s need to be done.

It’s of utmost importance that your app is tested on real iPhone. As iPhone uses an ‘ARM’ type processor and an iPhone simulator works on a Windows or a Mac platform. Memory, operating system and other hardware interactions can’t test your App unless it is on a real iPhone. Ensure that the testing company uses a real iPhone in their testing. 

 

iPhone apps today are highly functional and this demands crucial functional testing for the app development. A professional app tester ensures that the features of the app function properly. The tester should be able to do a concrete functional testing of the app. Functional testing are conducted to highlight any issues and give a clear feedback of the issues concerning the app to the developer. This will allow a quick and on time rectification of the problems occurring with the iPhone. 

An iPhone App Testing company should be capable enough to use ad-hoc functional testing methods, if there is no design documents provided with the App. While getting the testing job done, provide minimum description of the anticipated functionality of the App to allow the testers to test against something, and check that the testers has the abilities to functionally test the app without documentation.

A professional iPhone App Testing company should integrate methods such as Boundary Value Analysis and Equivalence Partitioning while testing an App. These methods are used to test functions of the App where the user needs to input something. Again, always check first with any testing company which techniques they will use to test your App.

The most common problems with any App is memory related issues. When encountered, this usually results in a crash, which is extremely undesirable from an end users perspective. If a crash does befall during testing, ensure the testing company delivers you with any associated crash logs, as this will help you detect where the problem is sited.

A professional iPhone App Tester should be capable enough to meticulously test the App while checking memory usage. This is essentially known as 'Stability Testing'. Testing in this area should also involve operating the amount of accessible memory for the App under test to monitor its behavior when the memory is low. Moreover, the amount of memory consumed by the App needs to be reported to the developer.

There are different ways to monitor iPhone app quality. The above are just being one of them. We can discuss other available ways next time.