Device testing

The growing demands for new applications/new features have always risen or they have been always tried to be a step ahead of user’s expectations. New phones on the market, new capabilities, etc, the complexity to develop applications always increases and at the same time testing new applications and making sure there are no regressions to it is a humongous effort. There are more than hand full of devices in store that always get opened during every release.

There is always a time factor and the go-to market increases as the race to give feature rich applications rises, as such the effort involved during new release roll out gets more critical both in terms of functional as well as time. Executing test scenarios on a more than a bunch of phones also takes more effort and there is always the case of regression; a new bug fix might break someplace else. As such the need for tight quality measures. Today, there are a variety of automation tools already in market place; there are simulators, to ease some QA aspects.

Usage of automated tools relatively takes off the ease on the quantity of scenarios to be run, however they necessarily not address all the UI corrections/fixes. They always need to be verified on the actual device itself. The more number of scenarios here the more time spent, device anywhere hosts such a large number of handsets grouped according to carriers. This eliminates companies to keep a repository of physical phones. All that needs to happen is to access devices from device anywhere and run tests. Early on usage of device anywhere carried few confusions of providing such services as simulations, but these devices actually work on electrical signals sent by user’s keyboard or mouse.

There have been quite a few upgrades made on device anywhere, how about recording scripts to support test cases (both UI and functional), capturing frame by frame screen prints that can enable developers to have more information on a bug on a speicifc device. How about getting an ability to migrate existing automated scripts that allows companies having scripts similar to as provided by device anywhere then they just copy need to be copied over to device anywhere suite and run them seamlessly. In net device anywhere provides fairly significant amount of backbone support for device testing, more information can be found here: http://www.deviceanywhere.com