Test mobile native applications with OctoPerf
As mobility has been the trend these past years, all the users coming to a website do so from many different devices. OctoPerf allows you to simulate traffic to your website, but it also allows to simulate this kind of multi-device traffic.
That being said, to take advantage of OctoPerf possibilities, you might need to import several different user journeys. Because a mobile user is very likely to deal with a different version of the application. Thus if you record only one user journey from a computer's browser and use it for your tests, they may not be realistic.
Browser based mobile apps
To record the traffic from a mobile application, you have several options. For browser based apps, you can record them from Chrome or firefox and just use the dev tools to switch the user agent:
Native apps are a bit more complex to get by.
Let's see what is required step by step to record such an application.