Web & Mobile Quality Assurance for Art Trading Platform
⚡ Pain Points We Tackled
The client, a digital art-trading platform (web + mobile), faced frequent bugs, inconsistent quality across devices, and a slow release cadence, which harmed user trust and slowed growth. Our task was to provide full-cycle quality assurance (web and mobile) to stabilize the product, speed releases, and lift user retention.
Our Approach
Azati's QA team collaborated with the client from early stages of development: building test strategies for both platforms, integrating automated and manual testing, focusing on cross-device compatibility and user-flows typical in art-trading (listing art, bidding, payment, mobile push notifications). We ensured that the QA process covered major functional scenarios, regressions, performance bottlenecks, and mobile-specific constraints (network variations, gestures, device fragmentation).
Applied Methods and Practices
- Comprehensive Test Plan: Defined and executed a full-cycle QA strategy that included functional, regression, usability, and performance testing for both web and mobile platforms, ensuring robust coverage across all features and user interactions.
- Automated Test Suites: Built automated test scripts for web and mobile UIs, specifically designed to validate key user flows and accelerate regression testing, ensuring quicker feedback loops for faster releases.
- Manual Exploratory Testing: Continued manual testing to cover edge cases unique to the art-trading experience, such as handling high-resolution images, bid flows, and mobile push notifications, which required nuanced understanding of the platform's business logic.
- QA Integration in CI/CD: Incorporated automated QA into the CI/CD pipelines, enabling tests to run with each build.
- Mobile Compatibility Testing: Focused on ensuring cross-device and OS compatibility, testing various screen sizes, versions, and handling offline scenarios.
Solution Features
- Complex QA Coverage: A robust QA framework covering both the desktop web app and native mobile apps, ensuring stability across platforms.
- Automated Regression Suite: An automated suite for fast verification of key user flows after each change, allowing for faster iterations.
- Mobile-Specific Tests: Additional testing for mobile-specific behavior, such as offline browsing, push notifications, and high-res image rendering.
- Prioritized Bug Reporting: A bug tracking system that prioritized issues based on their business impact (e.g., payment failures, listing failures), aligning fixes with the most critical user and business needs.
