Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Mobile Phones Testing

By Jason L. Beanster


The nation today may witness the boost of Mobile phone arena. From feature mobiles to Smartphones mobile handsets are flowing through in to market place like never ever before.

Reported by Gartner 428 Million Mobile Communication Instruments Sold Worldwide in First Quarter 2011, a 19 Percent Increase Year-on-Year. Manufacturers, Carriers Platforms are coming up with their unique mobile application stores of free and paid application.

From mobile games to commerce applications and from fun to LBS programs mobile application stores are having applications from all horizons. Over 300,000 mobile apps are actually developed in last 3 years and apps have been downloaded 10.9 billion times. But with all the opportunities in this market the competition is also getting harder and more difficult. Just to put in a indisputable fact that 1 in 4 mobile apps once got are never used again. So there is no question that in order to survive in this current market place Mobile Designers needs to produce good Ideas with Reputable of Mobile applications. Here is where Mobile Application Testing comes in representation.

Mobile Application Testing is completely new with reference to testing. Raving about difficulties I would like to stress that Mobile Application Testing contests are somewhat related but a bit varying as per the Mobile Developers therefore as for Mobile QAS. However before indulging quickly in to Mobile Application testing, we might know that which are the real challenges this industry is facing.

Many thousands of Cell Handsets: For portable builders, it is one of the major challenges they could ever face. As a way to arrive at a mobile application, one needs to be very sure about the devices they are targeting. According to an enquiry 1388.2 million handsets were sold in year 2010. These devices are of many screen sizes, input techniques (QWERTY, touch, normal) with distinctive hardware possibilities. Comprehending the incontrovertible fact that testing on every device is not possible in any respect, the variety in handsets is a very large undertaking for Mobile developers.

Distinctive Mobile Platforms/OS: There are different Platforms/OS presently located in the market place. Android, IOS, BREW, BREWMP, Symbian, Windows 7, Blackberry (RIM) and so forth. Range in mobile domains, distinctive OS differences and platform limitation make it to a small degree difficult and demanding for producing mobile apps and so for testing them. There could be chance of inconsistency concerning performance across several devices of same platform and every platform sometimes have some limitation.

Diverse Mobile Carriers/Manufacturers:-There seem to be different cellular carriers available and every brand manufacturer can have some norms depending on mobile application, should the application is resulting preinstalled within the device.




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