Mobile app and wearable testing on real devices

Mobile and wearable QA

Mobile has been a thread through my whole career, from games to banking apps to a parking platform to companion apps for Garmin and Apple Watch. The lesson that keeps repeating is that a device farm tells you about breadth, and a phone in your hand tells you what the user will meet.

These notes cover what I check on physical devices, how I treat permissions and background behaviour, and how I report coverage honestly when iOS and Android do not ship together.

2 notes on mobile and wearables

P19 Sep 20267 min read
Wearable QA when the phone is not enough
Watch and band journeys break in pairing, permissions and background sync, not in screenshots. What I verify before calling wearable work release-ready.
P128 Jul 20267 min read
Mobile QA beyond “run it on BrowserStack”
Device farms are useful. They are not a strategy. What a farm can tell you, what only a phone in the hand shows, and what I put in a mobile test plan.

2 notes on mobile and wearables

Wearable QA when the phone is not enough

Mobile QA beyond “run it on BrowserStack”