# The Shift Left in Mobile Engineering

DevFeed: [The Shift Left in Mobile Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-shift-left-in-mobile-engineering-22932.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://maestro.dev/blog/the-shift-left-in-mobile-engineering>)

Author: Leland Takamine

Published: 2021-09-01T07:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [mobile.dev - Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mobile-dev-medium.md>)

Topics: [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [shift-left](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shift-left.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why native mobile teams often struggle to ship confidently. Slower release cycles, app store review, binary distribution, staged rollouts, and delayed detection of crashes, performance issues, memory leaks, network usage, and battery drain make regressions more expensive and slower to fix than in web or backend development.

## Source excerpt

by Leland Takamine and Gergely Orosz