WebDepend was introduced to NANA Health through our long-standing relationship with the team at NoNameYet, and was asked to test the mobile app MVP for the new guidance platform. The project brief was tightly scoped and time-sensitive to deliver a fully functional MVP, ready for Apple's App Store review process, within a short development lifecycle. NANA Health needed confidence that the app would behave reliably across a range of iOS devices before submission.
WebDepend ran a predominantly exploratory testing process, focused on uncovering functional issues, usability friction, and device compatibility problems as new builds were released. Testing was carried out across three iOS devices spanning a range of screen sizes and operating system versions:
Each device ran a different version of iOS, allowing the team to surface OS-specific issues alongside general functional and layout bugs.
The engagement ran in two phases. An initial three-week phase where WebDepend tested alongside the development team as each new feature build became available, providing fast feedback so the team could react quickly. This was followed by a one-week final verification phase to confirm fixes and ensure the MVP was in a fit state to enter Apple's App Store review process. Daily stand-ups between WebDepend and the development team kept priorities aligned and ensured critical issues were resolved without blocking ongoing testing.
Testing uncovered a broad range of issues spanning several categories:
Critical bugs were escalated to the development team immediately to provide fast feedback, allowing fixes to be prioritised and turned around quickly without blocking the wider testing effort. Usability concerns raised during testing were discussed and resolved through the daily stand-ups.
WebDepend's testing gave NANA Health the confidence and understanding needed to submit its MVP for Apple App Store review within a short and demanding development timeline. By working in close collaboration with the development team, including testing each build as it arrived and feeding back issues quickly, WebDepend helped ensure that functional, compatibility, and integration problems were caught and resolved well before submission, rather than being discovered late or by Apple's reviewers.
Without this testing effort, the app would not have been in a fit state to progress to App Store submission. The close collaboration between WebDepend's testers and NANA Health's developers, underpinned by daily communication, was instrumental in keeping the project moving at pace while maintaining quality.
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