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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Testing Mobile Applications

By Jason L. Beanster


The world today may undergo the growth of Cell arena. From quality smartphones to Smartphones mobile handsets are entering in to industry like never ever before.

As suggested by Gartner 428 Million Mobile Connection Gadgets Sold Worldwide in First Quarter 2011, a 19 Percent Increase Year-on-Year. Producers, Carriers Platforms are coming up with their very own mobile application stores of free and paid application.

From mobile games to company applications and from entertainment to LBS apps 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 the opportunities with this market the competition is also getting more frustrating and more frustrating. Just to put in a incontrovertible fact that one in four mobile apps once purchased are never used again. As a result there is no question that in order to survive in this niche Mobile Builders needs to find good Ideas and Good quality of Mobile applications. Here is where Testing Mobile Applications comes in the image.

Mobile Application Testing is totally new with reference to testing. Talking about challenges Id like to stress that Mobile Application Testing contests are somewhat coupled but a bit diverse as per the Mobile Developers thus as for Mobile QAS. However before indulging quickly in to Mobile Application checking, we might know that what are those real disputes this industry is facing.

Many thousands of Mobile Handsets: For mobile developers, we think its one of the leading challenges they will might ever face. So as to find a mobile application, one needs to be very sure in regards to the devices they may be targeting. In accordance with an enquiry 1388.2 million handsets were bought in year 2010. These devices are of different screen sizes, input methods (QWERTY, touch, normal) with separate hardware capabilities. Knowing the fact that testing on every device is not feasible in the slightest degree, the diversity in handsets is a large test for Mobile designers.

Diverse Mobile Platforms/OS: You will come across different Platforms/OS at this time present in the market. Android, IOS, BREW, BREWMP, Symbian, Windows 7, Blackberry (RIM) etc. Assortment in mobile programs, distinctive OS variations and platform limitations ensure it is to a small degree difficult and demanding for establishing mobile apps therefore for testing them. There may be chance of inconsistency in regards to performance across numerous devices of same platform and each platform sometimes have some exclusions.

Different Mobile Carriers/Manufacturers:-There can be different cellular carriers out there and every originator often have some norms in connection with mobile application, in the event the application is coming preinstalled inside the device.




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