In STC 2019 conference, pCloudy hosted a contest “What can disrupt mobile app testing in 2025?”. I participated and won the contest. Below are my thoughts on mobile app testing in 2025:
Intelligent Digital Mesh:
Intelligent Digital Mesh is the mesh of people, devices, digital content and services. It will transform the mobile businesses and apps.
1. Intelligent apps use AI and machine learning to interact in a more intelligent way with people and surroundings. A recent example is Google’s Motion Sense feature in pixel 4 (radar-based technology developed by Google) where you can control apps on mobile by moving hand/fingers in air without touching the mobile screen.
Soon this will be adopted by mobile apps and the challenge will be how to test such features. Next is what if we implement AI/ML in Motion Sense tech where system learns the user gestures.
2. Conversational platforms (like Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri) when integrated with digital twins or AR/VR and mixed reality are changing the way that people perceive and interact with the digital world and devices.
3. Block chain, event driven when combined with AI/ML and Conversational platforms will make the testing further complicated.
We need to build strong AI/ML automated algo for mobile testing to test all the above mentioned stack.
Note – Intelligent Digital Mesh is in the Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for future from last couple of years.
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