Interruption Testing for Mobile Apps: Simulate Real-World Disruptions Like a Pro

Here’s a fact: mobile apps don’t live in a vacuum. Users get calls, run out of battery, lose signal, or get bombarded with notifications, all while using your app. These interruptions are constant yet unpredictable. But you can control your app’s response to them. Interruption testing, also known as interrupt testing, enables you to assess how your app handles common disruptions gracefully, whether it maintains state, preserves data, or resumes expected behavior without user friction. This type of testing supports product stability, user retention, and release readiness for engineering leads and QA teams. It also helps surface edge cases that can lead to crashes, corrupted sessions, or abandoned transactions. If you’d like to learn more about interruption testing, keep reading this blog post. It explores the fundamentals, including common interruption types, expected app behavior, testing methods, and best practices. But first, let’s answer a critical question: Why Does Interrupt...