How to Spot a Bad Mobile App? 7 Key Areas to Look Out for

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Mobile applications are everywhere. Those days we are processing banking information, purchase tickets, write articles, and communicating with an outside world.

However, when we talk about the quality of those applications it’s frequently lacking. What exactly is lacking, you might ask?

Well, it depends on how we analyze the mobile application. There might be issues in those areas:

• Security issues (encryption, passwords, data processing services)
• UI issues (bad design, phone compatibility issues)
• UX issues (main flows are not addressed well)
• Crashes (issues while trying to perform basic scenarios)
• Notifications (user is not notified and notifications are not opening the proper screen)
• Performance (application is too slow)
• Offline Mode (unable to use the app without the Internet connection)

Those are the main areas that typically make your user think twice about using the app and switch to some other application. Let’s talk about those cases in detail.

I should mention that I am a Test Engineer and testing applications is something that I do for a living. Everything in this list is based on my…