Mobile app testing brings along new challenges that are different from desktop Web testing. Here are a few tips to help you successfully test mobile apps.
Pick one language and one machine to test Web applications. Find the right combo that resonates with developers and stick with it. For example, Selenium was pretty good at testing JavaScript-heavy Web applications. But it really excelled at driving Firefox on either OS X or Linux with Java client libraries. This was the “killer combo” that resonated with developers. Firefox was their favorite browser and MacBooks were their favorite development machine. Java probably wasn’t their favorite programming language, but it’s what most large-scale Web apps were written in.