Communication is the basis for everyone, and for this, you will need to know some of the related terminologies of mobile apps and the web as it helps to increase the productivity of developers and improve your app or website’s functionality. In this article, we will provide an in-depth explanation of mobile app or web app testing, its importance, its strategy, and when it should be done.

What is 3D Touch?

The 3D Touch of the Apple iPhone 6S is in the news. The company first demonstrated Force Touch in Apple Watch. In this, this technology was used to see notifications on a small screen.

When you touch one notification, it is visible while the rest are blurred. 3D Touch is also based on touch screen technology but it is much better. This technology can sense the pressure of your fingers and opens the feature accordingly. This is a different type of gesture.

How does A/B Testing work?

A/B testing is also called bucket testing or split-run testing. A/B testing helps you find out which word, phrase, testimonial, image or video is working best for your website. Even minor changes to the webpage/emailer can significantly affect the conversion rates.

A/B testing is a method of comparing two versions of a single variable, usually by testing the subject’s response to version A against version B, and determining which of the two versions is more effective.

What is the definition of Accessibility?

Accessibility means designing products and environments that are helpful for people with disabilities.

Whereas in the world of mobile apps and web terminology, accessibility means features offered by devices and operating systems that will help people who are experiencing disabilities.

Many such standard accessibility options are already included in today’s modern operating systems, which help the user to use them, and they do not require any external specialized hardware.

What is agile development?

A software development methodology based on Agile development. It uses the iterative process of project management i.e. planning, developing, and deploying to meet changing customer needs while ensuring rapid development of prototypes.

In the agile development of product management, requirements and solutions are developed through collaboration among self-organized cross-functional team members.

The agile philosophy promotes a disciplined project management process and teamwork that encourages frequent testing and optimization with the idea of delivering software. It encourages self-organization, leadership, teamwork, human development, and accountability.

What is Airplane mode?

Airplane or flight mode is an option, in which your phone remains out of the network i.e. the phone is not even switched off and works like a switch off. After turning it on, you can use the phone, but cannot use the network. Due to this neither internet can run on your phone nor you can talk to anyone on call.

What is the definition of AI (Artificial Intelligence)?

Artificial intelligence” is a branch of the software in which operating systems and machines can think and act like humans. Such as problem-solving learning, voice recognition, and planning. 

What is Android?

Android is not a phone or any application, it is an operating system based on the Linux kernel. This operating system is developed and created by Google.

Android is such an operating system that was designed keeping in mind the mobile. So that all the functions and applications can be run easily in it. Whatever you see on the display of the phone, they are all part of the operating system. Whenever you receive a call, text message, or email, your OS processes it and presents it to you in an easy and readable format.

What is an API?

The full form is the Application Programming Interface. API is an in-between system, that is if we run an application on our phone or computer, then when the application connects to the Internet or comes in its connection, it sends data to a server.

The server receives that data, act on it, does the work you want, and then sends that data back to your phone or your computer. All this work is performed by an API. That is, it is difficult to work with any application without API.

What is an Apple ID?

Apple ID is the ID after logging in to use Apple’s services on your iOS phone and Apple’s website. Apple iOS phones are very premium. All those features like downloading music from iTunes or downloading apps or using iCloud require an Apple ID.

What is the App Store?

An App Store is an online shop where users can purchase and download various software applications. Apps sold through the App Store are intended for mobile devices. App Stores are cloud-based in the sense that users access content through free client software or a web browser. 

This is a portal where Android apps, games, and other content are available for your Android phone, tablet, or Android TV device. Just like Apple has their App Store, Google also has its Google Play Store.

How does App Provisioning work?

A provisioning profile is a collection of digital entities that ties both developers and devices to an iPhone Development Team and enables a device to be used for testing. A development provisioning profile must be installed on each device on which you have to run your application.

What does APK stand for?

APK, which stands for Android Package Kit, is used to install apps on the Android operating system. APK is also known as the Android Application Package. This file format contains all the components that an app requires to be installed correctly on the device.

What is App delivery on time?

The Mobile app delivery on time is the delivery of a mobile app project to the client on or before the agreed-upon deadline.

What is the arrangement mode?

It is a specialized mode present in every IOS device, that enables the rearrangement of icons on the IOS screen. This can be identified by jiggling around the icons.

What are Badges?

The iPhone operating system uses badges for any new message, voicemail, or push notification. Each of the iPhone apps with unread info has a white number with red background in the right upper corner of an icon. This is called a badge.

What does Backend mean?

Backend is a  term used to describe the configuration area of an application. 

Backend development refers to server-side development. It is a term used for behind-the-scenes activities that occur while performing any task on a website.

What is App optimization?

App optimization is the process of improving the performance, functionality, and user experience of an android app. This can include ways to optimize android app such as reducing its memory footprint, improving its speed, and enhancing its overall functionality.

There are various techniques and strategies that can be used to optimize an android app, including code optimization, user interface design, and testing. The goal of app optimization is to deliver a smooth and seamless user experience, which can ultimately lead to increased user engagement and retention. As a developer you must know the importance of app engagement because it is the final thing client need from you.

What is a Beta version?

A Beta version means the first version of a program or application that has many new features, but it is not complete. Sometimes this version is only available to a select few or is available to the general public. This version is given for testing and getting feedback.

This is the second major process in development, which happens before full release. That is, it is a pre-release version of a product or software before the general release, which is given to a large group of people to see using it.

What is a blacklist?

A blacklist is a list of IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) numbers that are restricted by any mobile operating system. There is such a feature of Blacklist Mobile, with the help of which we can add any mobile number to Blacklist which is also called busy call, after putting the number in the blacklist or busy call, the call from that number stops.

What is a Bug?

In the computer world, a bug is an error, issue, or defect in a software program. This may cause a program to quit or behave as expected. For example, a minor bug may cause a button within the program’s interface to not react when you click it. A more serious bug may cause the program to hang or crash due to an infinite count or memory leak.

From a developer’s perspective, bugs can be syntax or logic errors within the program’s source code. These errors can often be corrected using a development tool called bug tracking tool. however, if errors are not caught before the program is compiled into the final application, bugs will be noticed by the user.

What does CDP stand for?

CDP stands for customer data platform. A customer data platform is a collection of software that creates a unified customer and persistent database that is accessible to other systems. Data is extracted, cleaned, and combined from multiple sources to form a single customer profile. 

How does a Chatbot work?

A chatbot is a software application used to conduct online chat via text instead of providing direct contact with a live human agent. 

A chatbot is a computer-based program for general question-answering. Anyone can talk to Chatbot. As soon as you ask a question to the chatbot, the answer to which it knows, then it will answer it immediately. You can talk to the chatbot like talking to a human.

What is the Control Center?

Control Center is a feature that lets you modify your Android and IOS smartphones quickly and easily.

It is not always entirely possible to set your smartphone to your liking, as by default, some settings are impossible to change. However, with Control Center, you can adjust the features of your Control Center however you want, but you can remove or add as many as you want.

What does CRM stand for?

CRM stands for customer relationship management. CRM is software that is dedicated to synchronizing, organizing, and automating a customer’s relationship with a business. The software will track and measure the marketing campaign of the business across multiple networks. The CRM software will track the customer and his relationship through customer clicks and sales.

What is a Cross-Platform App?

Cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms.

Many items rely on knowing the correct composition to use. The best option is to create a game or app that requires a significant number of specific functions on the device. However, if your mobile app is reasonably simple, cross-platforming is the best option as it saves time and money.

What is a Device ID?

The mobile device ID is a unique customer identifier used to identify a mobile device. This can be an IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) or an Android Advertising ID. The device ID is one of the reporting identity spaces available. A browser-enabled or mobile application-based identifier for a user of an anonymized website or mobile application.

What is a Display Port?

DisplayPort is more than just a cable. It is a set of parameters. If you want to get the most out of your PC, your graphics card, or your monitor, this is what DisplayPort is used for. You’ll find the DisplayPort interface on desktop computers, laptops, notebooks, tablets, monitors, and even some digital TVs.

What is a Dock?

It is a feature present in IOS and Mac OS X home screen/desktop that provide an immersive viewing experience of media content. Pictures and movies will look great on the new iPhone compared to other devices.

How does do not disturb mode (DND) work?

DND means Do Not Disturb. Through this service, no one can able to call you and can’t able to send you fake promotional messages without your consent. To take advantage of this, you have to activate DND (Do Not Disturb) on your number. This feature is useful at the time of any meeting, bedtime or event.

What is an Epic?

an “epic” is simply a large story that will later be differentiated into several specific user stories.  Epic story anchors a project from top to bottom, and if there’s no point in producing an epic, then the supporting work is also going to be a waste of effort.

What are Gestures?

Screen Gesture is a feature present in devices like iPhones and pads. The gesture is a feature with the help of which the activity you do with your finger on the phone’s screen, the phone works by reading it. If you want to make a call, then draw the design of C with the finger on the screen of the phone and the dialer will open in the phone. Similarly, if you want to use an app, then design its first letter like F for Facebook, and W for WhatsApp.

What is Haptics/Haptic Feedback?

When you use your iPhone, you sometimes notice a small kick when you bring the volume or brightness slider to its maximum, then toggle a switch in the Settings app, a number, or a date picker. Use Mail to refresh, drag apps, and do lots of other little things. This is called “haptic feedback”. If the little vibration now and then bothers you, you can turn it off.

What does HIG stand for?

HIG stands for human interface guidelines. Human interface guidelines are human-machine interfaces aimed at the efficiency, effectiveness, and ease of human-machine interaction by representing logic and acting on models of users, domains, actions, interpretations, and media (e.g. graphics, natural language, signs).

What is the home screen?

Devices such as computers and mobile phones have a home screen. This is the main screen of the device and the user can access various applications through the icons on the home screen.

What does IAP stand for?

It stands for In-app purchase. In-app purchases are about purchasing services and products from within an application installed on a device, be it a smartphone, tablet, or computer. With in-app purchases, developers get a chance to offer their apps at no cost.

What is the definition of iOS?

It is Apple’s mobile operating system that runs iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. Originally its name was iPhone OS, while later when the iPad was introduced, its name was also changed.

What is iCloud?

iCloud is a feature that helps you keep your important information like your photos, files, and backups, and more safely and up-to-date, and available across all your devices. It is built-in to every Apple device and each person gets 5 GB of storage initially.

What is iMessage?

This is the service offered by iPhone, through iMessage you can send free messages to all your contacts who have “by iPhone”. The iPhone, iPad, and Mac use a special fast messaging feature called iMessage, which is different from the simple SMS texting service supported by cell carriers.

What is jailbreaking?

Jailbreaking is the process of locking and removing all software restrictions imposed by Apple. Getting around these restrictions can be anything, such as not installing an Apple-approved app or customizing your iPhone in a way Apple normally wouldn’t let you.

What does JSON stand for?

JSON stands for JavaScript object notation. It is a free file format used for sending and receiving human-readable text. Is. It is read as Jason in short. It keeps all its data in the form of arrays.

What does JWT stand for?

The JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard that defines a compact and self-contained way to transmit information securely as JSON objects between parties.  

What is a Lightning connector, port, cable or dock?

Apple announced a change from its 30-pin dock to a new 8-pin dock called the Lightning Connector. Designed to be more efficient, the Lightning connector made it possible to make progressively thinner Apple devices.

While the original Lightning Cable prototypes weren’t reversible, Apple managed to find a way to do so. Additionally, the Lightning connector is 80% smaller than its predecessor but is also multifunctional.

What are Live Photos?

If you combine a photo with a video, you can have what Apple calls Live Photos, or Animated Photos. When the shutter is created, instead of just capturing the image statically, the animation is also created. Specifically, the camera will “record” 1.5 seconds before and after the picture is taken.

What is Material Design?

The main objective of Material Design is the creation of a new visual language that combines the principles of good design with technological and scientific innovation. Effects like light and shadow.

What are Mockups?

Also known as a mock-up, a mockup is a model of an object or device that is made to follow a specific design. This type of resource may be manufactured on a specific scale, or as a full-size example of a newly developed product or device. Usually, a mockup is constructed to express the general idea of ​​the actual product and is not a working model. 

What is a Multimodal Interface?

Multimodal interaction provides multiple ways for the user to interact with the system. A multimodal interface provides many different tools for the input and output of data. The widespread use of mobile devices, sensors, and web technologies can provide sufficient computational resources to manage the complexity inherent by multimodal interactions. 

What does Multitasking mean in tech?

Multitasking Operating System means that the CPU executes multiple Processes/Tasks by switching between Processes. The multitasking operating system is also called Time-Sharing System.

As in Modern Computer, MS Word, Google Chrome, and Music run simultaneously due to multitasking properties. Because the CPU switches between all these processes. For some time, all the processes are executed while doing one then the other than the first then the second.

What does MVP stand for?

MVP stands for a minimum viable product, a basic version of a product that allows user feedback to understand what further development should be like and better match the needs of users.

How does the Notification Center/Drawer work?

Notification Center iOS 8 is becoming the new system disaster drawer. We don’t just have app notifications anymore, but with the advent of widgets, there are many elements that the Notification Center shows and of course, the way it currently does it deserves a lot of improvement.

Interactive notifications are a step forward in usability, something we rarely take advantage of outside of Apple’s applications right now. The notification center has been greatly improved.

What is Objective C?

Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds the C programming language to Smalltalk-style messaging. Objective-C programs developed for non-Apple operating systems or that are not dependent on Apple’s APIs can also be compiled for any platform supported by GNU GCC or LLVM/Clang.

What does OS stand for?

OS stands for the operating system, It is system software that acts as an interface between the user and the computer hardware. Simply put, when the computer is used by a person, then the operating system itself provides you with the means to use the computer.

What is Open Source?

Open source is software whose source code is open to all. The code of open source software is made available free of charge and anyone can modify it, contribute to its development or use it free of charge for their work. Apart from the source code, the binary code of this software is also provided which is compiled to run on different operating systems.

What does OTT stand for?

OTT stands for, Over the top, it is referred to the delivery of content over the Internet rather than over a traditional cable or broadcast provider. OTT runs on top of an already existing internet connection. 

How does Pinch to Zoom work?

In computing, multi-touch is a technology that enables a touchpad or touchscreen to recognize more than one or more than two points of contact with the surface. Apple popularized the term “multi-touch”, with which it implemented additional functionality, such as pinch to zoom or activate certain subroutines involving predefined gestures.

What does PR stand for in engineering?

PR stands for the pull request. Pull request templates provide a template for the engineer to fill out when writing a pull request.

How does Push Notification work?

All browsers handle push notifications on their own, using their mechanism, also known as a “push service”. You can subscribe the application to the browser’s push service as long as in your site when the user permits the push.

What is the Sleep/Wake Button?

The Sleep/Wake button on the iPad is one of the few buttons on the iPad that has many uses before locking the device or waking it up.

Since this button is used to put the iPad in suspend mode, the sleep/wake button is sometimes referred to as the suspend button or hold button, but also the lock and power buttons.

What is the definition of Scrum in mobile?

A scrum is a regular, repeatable work cycle, with a scrum methodology, during which work is completed and prepared for review.

What does SDK stand for?

SDK stands for the software development kit. An SDK is a collection of software that is used to develop applications, that too in a specific device or operating system. For example, SDKs include the Windows 7 SDK, Mac OS X SDK, Android SDK, and iPhone SDK.

What does SEO stand for?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the method used to increase traffic to a website by increasing its search engine page rank.

What is Siri?

Siri is a virtual assistant that is part of Apple Inc.’s iOS, iPad, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS operating systems. Answers questions, recommendations, and tasks through assistant voice questions and a natural-language user interface. The software changes according to users’ language usage, searches, and preferences, with continued use.

How do Siri Shortcuts work?

In the Shortcuts app on your iOS or iPadOS device, tap Shortcuts in My Shortcuts, activate Siri, then say “Remind me about this.” You can use Siri to add shortcuts to the Reminders app, specifying the shortcut to appear at a specific time or location. For example, you can schedule a reminder to run the Log Weight shortcut each morning or to display the Estimated Time for Home shortcut when you leave work.

What is Spotlight Search?

Spotlight for iPhone has been around for some time now, and it’s pretty easy. You can simply swipe left from your home screen or swipe up to access Spotlight Search, and search for anything you like. That’s all well and good, but if you use Spotlight Search on your iPhone or iPad, you probably have a lot of stuff in the search history that shows up beneath it.

What is a Sprint in engineering?

A sprint is a time-box of one month or less. Newsprint begins immediately after the completion of the previous sprint. If the product still has some non-achievable features it will be tested in this phase and then the product will be sent to the Sprint Retrospective phase.

What is the Status Bar?

A status bar is a graphical control element used to display some status information depending on the application or device. It is usually displayed as a horizontal bar at the bottom of the application window on computers, or at the top of the screen for tablets and smartphones.

How does Taptics/Taptic Engine work?

Apple follows the haptic concept which includes the contraction of ‘tap’ and ‘haptics’. It is most commonly used in the Apple watch, it works in such a way that if you will get an alert then it feels like “tapping” on your wrist.

What is the definition of User-Centered Research?

It is the process of direct engagement of real users and customers to learn values, habits, and needs.

What does UDID stand for?

UDID is the Unique Device Identifier. A UDID is an identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and a specific purpose. [1] The concept was formalized in the development of computer science and information systems. In general, it was associated with an atomic data type.

What is UI?

The full form of UI is “User Interface”.The term UI is usually used to refer to any software, app or web design. When a user uses an application, his first contact is with the UI itself. User Interface or UI means the structure of the graphic of an application. This includes the design of the buttons, words, photos, etc. present in the application.

What are User Stories?

A user story is a requirement for any functionality or feature that is written in one or two lines and up to a maximum of 5 lines. A user story is usually the simplest possible requirement and is roughly one and only one functionality (or a feature).

What is the definition of UX?

User experience (UX) is a concept in computing systems and application design that studies and evaluates human emotions and expressions when using such systems. UX facilitates the development of computing systems and focuses on accessibility and ease of use for a human user.

What is Xcode?

All the tools that are needed for iOS app development are available in XCode, such as text editor, compiler, build system, etc. In XCode, you can write the code of the app, compile it, and debug it and after the app is created, you can also publish it in the apple app store. XCode’s help app can be created very quickly and it is considered an easy IDE for new developers too.

What are Wireframes?

Wireframes are a tool that frequently appears in web and application design. Whether it is building a website, designing an app, or running an e-commerce company, wireframes are almost always used. Therefore, wireframe design is a very important skill in digital.

What is the definition of a Web App?

A web application or “web app” is a software program that runs on a web server. Unlike traditional desktop applications, which are launched by your operating system, web applications are accessed through a web browser.

What does VPN stand for?

VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network” and describes the opportunity to establish a protected network connection when using a public network. this makes it more difficult for third parties to track your activities online and steal data. Encryption happens in real-time.