A Framework for Non-Functional Testing Process of Mobile Applications

Currently, there is a considerable growth in the acquisition of mobile devices with different characteristics, sizes or operating system versions, they allow the execution of different mobile applications, under this premise it is very important to emphasize the phases of the mobile application testing process.Therefore, this study proposes a framework for the process of non-functional testing process where the non-functional requirements that should be considered for mobile application tests, test case scenarios (TCS) and tools to test and execute these TCS. In addition, a cost-benefit analysis will be presented, according to the types of test execution; considering cloud and local tools.In order to validate our framework, we conducted surveys to experts in the field and the framework was applied to a mobile application. In this way, with the proposed framework, according to the validation, the complexity of the non-functional testing process is reduced and it is possible to identify the largest number of errors of a mobile application, prior to deployment in production.