Live Streaming Compatibility, Performance, and UI Testing Guidelines

1. Compatibility Testing – Verify that live streaming functions correctly across different device models, operating systems, screen resolutions, and network conditions, ensuring users can start a broadcast, join a live room, send messages, and navigate to the end‑page after the stream finishes.

2. Performance Testing

Key performance metrics include:

CPU : Use Instruments Activity Monitor on iOS and Android Studio’s CPU profiler on Android.

Memory : Use Instruments (Leaks, Activity Monitor, Allocations, Zombies) on iOS and Android Studio’s memory tools on Android.

Traffic (Wi‑Fi/Data) : Record data consumption during streaming, e.g., with Tencent Guard.

Battery : Compare battery drain after 30 minutes of streaming across multiple apps under identical conditions.

Temperature : Measure electromagnetic and CPU temperature during a 30‑minute stream using tools such as Castro.

Startup Time (秒开) : Ensure first‑screen load time is around 1 second.

Latency : Measure delay between broadcaster’s stream and viewer’s playback.

Clarity : Collect user feedback on visual clarity.

Resolution, FPS, Bitrate : Verify using VLC or similar tools.

3. UI Testing – Assess layout, style, text accuracy, visual appeal, image‑text composition, and overall usability to ensure the interface meets company or industry standards, including friendliness, ergonomics, and ease of operation.

(1) Showroom (秀场)

Host Live Room : Verify camera, flash, beauty filter, cover image, title, channel selection, sync button, test room activation, location, sharing, and game‑live display on the broadcast start page; ensure avatar, audience count, charm value, watermark, audience list, message box, camera, flash, beauty filter, and sharing work on the main page; confirm audience count, duration, likes, charm increase, and video deletion on the end page.

Audience Live Room : Check host avatar, follow button, audience count, location, charm value, watermark, audience list, source channel, message box, zoom playback, gifts, and sharing functions; verify host avatar, name, charm increase, viewer count, duration, follow button, and recommended highlights on the end page.

(2) Game

Host Live Room : Ensure settings, title, game selection, channel, clarity, orientation, test room activation, location, sharing, and tutorial display on the start page; verify title, charm, audience count, message box, sharing, voice privacy, image privacy, and settings on the main page; confirm portrait and landscape end‑page layouts match the showroom.

Audience Live Room : Validate portrait mode mirrors normal live rooms; in landscape mode, ensure host’s portrait, viewer count, distance, charm, channel name, watermark, and 16:9 game video area display correctly, along with chat, zoom, share, and gift controls.

Additional UI checks include:

New‑user guide (left swipe to clear screen, pull up/down to switch rooms, double‑tap to like).

Bubble reminders (landscape viewing, video square entry).

Personal info card (recent replay, fan count, following status).

List UI (avatar, username, follow/unfollow button, truncation of long names, replay thumbnail, title, audience count, time).

Night mode, gift effects, navigation clarity, adaptive layout, consistent tag styles, overall page aesthetics, and content validation (input hints, length limits, typo checks, Chinese language display).

For further reading, see the expert column “Live Streaming General Testing Methods – How to Conduct Live Streaming Tests”.

Author: Li Xue, graduate of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Computer Software and Theory), currently working in Baidu Content Ecology Quality Department, responsible for live‑stream testing.