Testing in Mobile Devices

| Sunday, April 15, 2012
By Jason L. Beanster


Everybody today will definitely witness the growth of Mobile phone arena. From feature mobiles to Smartphones mobile handsets are flowing through in to market place like never ever before.

In accordance with Gartner 428 Million Mobile Conversation Instruments Sold Worldwide in First Quarter 2011, a 19 Percent Increase Year-on-Year. Producers, Carriers Platforms are coming up with their personal mobile application stores of free and paid application.

From mobile games to enterprise applications and from pleasure to LBS apps cell application stores are having applications from all horizons. Over 300,000 mobile apps seem to have been developed in last three years and apps seem to have been downloaded 10.9 billion times. But when using the opportunities while in this market our competitors are also getting more frustrating and tougher. Just to squeeze in a indisputable fact that one in four mobile apps once got are never used again. So there is no hesitation that in order to survive in this industry Mobile Builders must also procure good Ideas with Excellent of Mobile applications. Here is where Mobile Application Testing comes in depiction.

Mobile Application Testing is new in the field of testing. Speaking about snags Id like to emphasize that Mobile Application Testing challenges and tough situations are somewhat interrelated but a bit unique as per the Mobile Developers thus as for Mobile QAS. However before indulging immediately in to Mobile Application checking, we should always know that what are those real demanding situations this industry is facing.

Lots and lots of Portable Handsets: For mobile builders, we think its one of the biggest challenges which they might ever face. With the intention to program a mobile application, one needs to be very sure in regards to the devices they are targeting. As suggested by a search 1388.2 million handsets were sold in year 2010. These gadgets are of assorted screen sizes, input options (QWERTY, touch, normal) with varying hardware attributes. Recognizing the proven fact that testing on every device is not possible in any respect, the range in handsets is a big task for Mobile builders.

Varying Mobile Platforms/OS: You will find different Platforms/OS at this time present in the niche. Android, IOS, BREW, BREWMP, Symbian, Windows 7, Blackberry (RIM) etc. Range in mobile platforms, diverse OS differences and platform limitations cause it to be to a small degree difficult and demanding for establishing mobile apps and so for testing them. There might be chance of inconsistency by ways of usefulness across numerous devices of same platform and each platform could have some exclusions.

Varying Mobile Carriers/Manufacturers:-There tend to be different cellular carriers already in the market and each creator could have some norms in connection with mobile application, should the application is coming already on the device.




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