
The ISTQB® Mobile Application Testing (CT-MAT) certification provides an insight into methods, techniques, and tools a professional may use to test mobile applications.
It covers the required mobile project activities, roles, methods, and methodologies.
In order to appear for this certification, you need to have a foundation level certification.
Total Questions: 40
Total Points: 40
Passing Score: 26
Length (mins): 60
Explain how a certified tester aligns business and technology drivers to prioritize mobile application testing. Identify risks, expectations, and apply context-specific test types and environments.
In order to appear for this certification, you need to have a foundation-level certification.
Business and technology drivers – Mobiles
Test types – Mobile applications
Test processes - Mobile applications
Platforms, Tools and Environment
Automating Test execution
Preparation for certification
Sample Test 1
Analytics Data
Business Models
Device types
Types of mobile application
Architecture
Test strategies
Challenges and Risks
who, how, what?
Revenue Generation Strategies
Explore mobile device types—from basic to IoT companions—and compare native, browser-based, and hybrid apps. Learn testing across OS versions, hardware, screen sizes, sensors, and connectivity using simulators and real devices.
Develop a robust mobile test strategy by profiling markets, selecting key devices and OS versions, and prioritizing risks to ensure reliable app performance across networks and permissions.
Navigate testing across multiple platforms, OS versions, devices, screen sizes, and networks to ensure backward compatibility, performance, and smooth user experience while managing tools, SDKs, emulation, and distribution channels.
Identify key mobile testing risks and mitigations by selecting targeted devices and platforms, validating operating system compatibility and libraries, and simulating real usage patterns and preproduction releases.
Learn to use mobile analytics data to shape the testing strategy and plan; identify geographical location for audience, platform, operating system versions, device distribution, business models, and prioritize testing accordingly.
Test app interactions with device software, including notifications in foreground and background, privacy settings, deep linking, and cross-platform compatibility across OS versions and networks.
Explore various connectivity methods—2g/3g/4g/5g, wi-fi, nfc, and bluetooth—and validate apps under different network conditions using simulators and field testing to ensure seamless, data-loss-free reconnects with offline notifications.
Assess device hardware compatibility, app OS interaction, and connectivity to craft test levels, ensuring no data loss, graceful error handling, clear messaging, and a rich user experience.
Conduct additional test levels across performance, security, internationalization, accessibility, and usability, include field testing for real network conditions, and ensure store approvals with versioning for the APIs and libraries.
Explore mobile app test processes from planning to execution, covering device strategies, emulators, labs, operating system and sensor data challenges, field testing, test design, packaging, and provider guidelines for publishing.
Outline mobile test approaches across levels—from unit and integration testing to field testing, store approval, and user acceptance testing—considering architecture, sensors, simulators, API testing, automation, and continuous integration and deployment.
Master mobile app testing types and levels, including installation, stress, security, performance, usability, globalization, and accessibility, plus field, store approval, and post release testing.
Explore mobile development platforms like Android Studio and Xcode, and understand cross-platform tools and mobile web apps. Learn how readily available IDEs streamline design, coding, and testing without special packaging.
Explore emulators and simulators to model runtime environments, launch and install apps, test hardware-software interactions, and preview performance on real devices with GPS and bandwidth controls.
Explore mobile testing tools and environments for Xcode and Android Studio, using emulators and simulators; learn to set up a test lab, plan distribution, and field-test features.
Explore automation test approaches for mobile apps, including user-agent based testing and device-specific frameworks, with object IDs, operations, test reports, documentation, and CI integration.
Automate test execution by selecting suitable frameworks, identifying and operating on objects, and generating reports, while evaluating tools for reliability, speed, maintainability, and sustainable updates.
Certified Tester Mobile application testing
It is the process of designing, preparing, and executing tests on a mobile application to make sure that functionality and usability confirm business and usability requirements are met.
The application under test is ready to be used by the end customer.
Testing needs to validate the appearance, performance, and functionality of applications across multiple devices, and operating system and browser versions if applicable.
This testing encompasses functional, performance, usability, security, load, interruption, memory leakage, location, certification, installation, automation, and more.
This course is designed for mobile application test enthusiasts who want to prepare for specialist certification offered by the ISTQB® which focuses on test strategies, techniques, tools, and environments a professional tester can use to test mobile applications.
We will cover all the topics from the official syllabus for this certification and quizzes which will boost your confidence.
I will try to improve the course continuously as we move ahead with the time.
Please do provide input and feedback so I can improve the course and myself.
This is not an alternative to official material but the additional experience-based interpretation of source material with an in-depth explanation of the topics as an experienced tester and test analyst.