What are the most effective methods for evaluating mobile app architecture?

To assess mobile app architecture, employ these methods: • Understand the Problem • Research Best Practices • Consider Trends • Evaluate Navigation Methods • Review Clarity

Open-source test automation tools and frameworks, like Selenium and Appium, enhance software testing by providing cost-effective, customizable solutions. They enable automated testing of web and mobile applications, ensuring quicker and more reliable test execution. With a collaborative community contributing to these tools, developers, and testers can access a wealth of resources, support, and updates. This fosters agile development practices, accelerates release cycles, and improves software quality.

User scenarios can be defined through User Story Maps, which allow teams to define and refine user experiences. For systems, a great tool to visualise architectures based on scenarios is the C4 framework, a hierarchical set of abstractions for visualising system responsibilities, and interactions between them and other actors. C4 breaks into four levels: 1. System Context (the scenario) 2. Containers (applications and data stores within the system) - this is not to be confused with containerisation tech! 3. Components - The responsibilities between components inside containers. 4. Code - UML diagrams etc. Scenarios can be represented with different contexts to help clearly evaluate your app architecture within your team. 3.

Some key metrics to consider for evaluating your architecture, or rather its value: - Your cost per feature. That is how much does it cost you to build a particular feature using that technology, and can it be done using another architecture for less. - Cycle Time: How quickly is your team able to build to production? Do you want to be able to ship to production 100 times per day, or once per week? It's your metric to define, aim for higher frequency than you need, but don't over engineer your architecture.

Evaluate the architecture based on the availability of the skills to maintain it now, and in the future. Questions to ask: - What is the popularity of the technology used in the architecture? - Is this architecture provided by another party, what if they closed up shop? - What software licenses are parts of your architecture subject to? Do you need to include attribution in your app and can they be used commercially? See fossa.com for example - What is the state in the community behind these libraries and architectures? Are they active and open or dwindling? - What other apps or businesses are hiring for the skillsets used for your architecture. For instance is there little demand or too much?

Evaluating which architecture to use is primarily based on what type of application you’re going to use. From simple to complex, you have to get in mind that a complex architecture for a simple solution can be a pain on delivering it, and a simple architecture for a complex solution may leave breaches and room for too many alterations in the code