Magic Mountain

Magic Mountain turned to QAwerk at a point when they were doing a massive redesign of their app to bring it from freemium to subscription-ready. As a startup, they were looking for someone who already has years of experience in testing mobile solutions and could bring that expertise to the table.

Our primary areas of focus were as follows:

• Facebook-Grade Quality. QAwerk team was tasked to ensure no bugs travel to prod, and the app remains stable and fully functional after each update. Both dev and QA teams were aiming for a genuinely high-end product as a final result.
• Seamless Sync with Wearables. The Magic Mountain app syncs to Apple Watch and Fitbit fitness trackers, which eases logging workouts for users. Our goal was to discover scenarios when the integration wouldn’t work as expected and lead to data loss or other inconveniences.
• Multi-User Interaction. Creating team challenges is the app’s foundational and distinctive feature. So we needed to scrutinize every bit of this functionality to ensure all kinds of interactions between multiple users and different devices run like clockwork.

The Magic Mountain team put a ton of effort into making the app visually appealing and fun. In this regard, our task was also to check developers’ compliance with the given designs and document any other UI issues.

When working with clients, we add value not only by sharing our technical expertise and staying invested in the project but also by using our time efficiently. We arrange our workflows in a way to reduce time to prod: our QA engineers start testing right after Magic Mountain developers are done with the build, so there’s minimum downtime in the development cycle.

To help Magic Mountain achieve the high-quality bar they’ve set for themselves, we conduct different types of tests, such as:

• QA Functional Testing. We’ve checked every corner of the app – from onboarding and challenges to chat, subscriptions, and push notifications. Every new improvement added by the dev team is immediately tested by QAwerk, which speeds up bug fixing and reduces development costs in the long run.
• Regression Testing. The Magic Mountain team takes good care of the app by continuously releasing updates. Our QA engineers follow detailed checklists to perform in-depth regression testing and detect bugs caused by changes to the existing functionality.
• Integration Testing. Here we needed to ensure the Magic Mountain app properly synchronizes with Apple’s HealthKit and Fitbit app. Integration testing is an absolute must for a fitness app that tracks data with the help of wearables.
• User Interface Testing. Magic Mountain is a gamified app, so its design is well thought out. The QAwerk team checked if the app screens match the approved designs and how those look and feel on the latest Android and Apple devices and different versions of operating systems.

We test mobile apps only on real devices, and each software tester at QAwerk Company has several gadgets at their disposal. This approach allowed us to see how the Magic Mountain app behaved on different smartphones, especially when multiple users interacted with the app simultaneously. For a community-building app like Magic Mountain, the interactivity component is essential to its success, so we took our time to scrutinize this functionality.