Coverage Challenges for Web Application Developers
Understand the coverage challenges front-end developers face in supporting multiple browsers, mobile platforms, and emerging frameworks. Learn how to plan testing strategies based on market share data for browsers and devices, manage compatibility across OS versions, and address the complexities of Progressive Web Apps and Flutter applications.
Another challenge that developers face is coverage across web and mobile operating systems and platforms. Every month, both Google and Mozilla release public general availability (GA) and beta versions to the market. Such releases disrupt the web applications in many cases and require developers to ensure that the new versions are still compliant with their apps. Because web traffic is higher on mobile platforms nowadays, ensuring the continuous quality of the web application across different iOS and Android devices and OS versions is key to success.
Browser market share insights
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Google Chrome is the most used browser in the market, but with a monthly release cadence, the cost of failure is high; so, developers and testers must keep up with the newly introduced browsers and features. After the Apple Safari browser, which holds a significant market share, the bigger problem is the rest of the market share is ...