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Synthetic mobile app testing

henk_stobbe — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:20:30 GMT

Hello,

Is there anybody who has experience with synthetic for mobile apps? Testing the API end-point should be no problem but is there more?

Anybody suggestions?

KR Henk

Re: Synthetic mobile app testing?

pahofmann — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:16:21 GMT

For an SLA / availability monitoring HTTP checks against the backend API should be fine and is what we have done for customers. For more insights we use RUM.

Re: Synthetic mobile app testing?

Philipp_Kastner — Mon, 03 May 2021 07:54:05 GMT

To elaborate on @pahofmann's answer. You can also link HTTP monitors to mobile applications monitored via RUM. See the "Actively monitor your mobile application’s back-end service availability" section of this blog post.

Currently we have no plans to add native mobile applications support to our synthetic monitor capabilities.

Re: Synthetic mobile app testing?

chaudhari_prach — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:11:28 GMT

Hello Team,

Is the Synthetic Monitoring in place for native mobile apps now !

Also, is there any other way out for this!

Re: Synthetic mobile app testing?

AntonioSousa — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:08:32 GMT

@henk_stobbe, @chaudhari_prach ,

We have a native mobile apps synthetic offering. It is available in the Dynatrace Hub:

https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/how-fast-is-your-app/

Re: Synthetic mobile app testing?

Babar_Qayyum — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:15:31 GMT

Hello @AntonioSousa

How is your experience? We are mainly interested in the availability.

Can we use the same for Hybrid mobile applications?

Regards,

Babar

Re: Synthetic mobile app testing?

AntonioSousa — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:01:53 GMT

@Babar_Qayyum,

Yes, it should work with any mobile app.

Re: Synthetic mobile app testing?

gopher — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:10:46 GMT

Hi Henke,

As you mentioned it can be done using API calls and a whole raft of Pre / Post scripts & logic to simulate a user flow much like a browser script.

You'll need a good dev, that really understands the flow & java script, but essentially you set up a flow like

[Get Auth]

- > connect to AUTH API with device headers

<- capture response token

$response_token

[Logon]

-> Pass stored $response_token to logon api

<- Get back session id

$store session_id

> validate successful session

[perform function 1]

-> PUT request API + $response_token + $session_id

<- GET response

validate response

[perform function 2]

-> PUT request API + $response_token + $session_id

<- GET response

validate response

[LOG OUT]

API Synthetics (mobile) + RUM (mobile) + Service (Application) should give you all the coverage you need.

This is really not that different to what you would do with Mobile synthetics like Appium, logic just needs to be converted into 'Dyna' code.