Mobile Product Testing
Mobile Software, Mobile Device, and Infrastructure Testing Worldwide
The complexity of testing Mobile applications and devices continues to increase, demanding a future-forward approach and a global testing infrastructure.
Mobile device manufacturers, application developers, and carriers alike face a new and increasingly complex global infrastructure every day.
How to prioritize and test against innumerable emerging form factors? How to execute in-country, location-aware reliability testing in hundreds or thousands of geographies rapidly and cost-effectively? How to automate testing against an ever-changing set of technologies? How much functionality can be simulated in the lab and how much must be tested in situ?
Using its global facilities, carefully-chosen affiliates, and on-the-ground testers in hundreds of geographies, the VeriTest service of Lionbridge answers that question for clients as diverse as Nokia, AT&T Wireless, Microsoft, and Motorola, along with hundreds of ISV clients, large and small.
We support the full range of established and emerging technologies: Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, Java and JavaME. Importantly, we work on the mobile infrastructure side as well, including implementation work with wireless network operators, transaction middleware, and mobile operating system developers, delving into all the testing requirements demanded by the complexities of scale.
Often our expertise proves invaluable in tracking down the root causes of defects in multiple levels of wireless infrastructure, sorting out the issues among carriers, service providers and developers.
Our work includes:
- Test case automation and development of automation frameworks
- In-Country Market-Readiness and Functionality Testing
- Field testing and Location-Aware technology testing
- Emerging user interfaces, including internationalized Input Method Editors
- Certification testing for leading market programs
Some Key Principles of Our Mobile Work
- Real-World Testing. VeriTest has a reputation for “real world testing” on the ground and in-market. This is particularly important for complex applications, as it allows testing under known network service quality conditions, testing application survivability during cell or network handovers and dropback to slower technologies without needed signaling features. Often technology and network implementations are simply not yet mature enough to rely solely on lab testing of mobile applications. Testing on a target instance, rather than a prototype or proof of concept, will, for example, ensure proper testing of security schemes (40-bit vs. 128-bit, network authentication & roaming, WTLS/SSL translations), and performance under realistic loads (web, client/server background loads, incremental wireless traffic, variations in message size/type, etc.).
- We choose our tools carefully. Few testing tools provide good support for wireless applications and infrastructure. Even where tools do exist, the level of test effort and success can vary widely with the type of gateway, complexity of the application and tool support for scripting, coding standards (WML, HDML, xHTML) and devices. We have created key partnerships in the mobile testing arena, and we work closely with these partners on new techniques and test strategies.
- Stay future-forward. No technology moves faster than mobile technology. We recognize that it is our job to make sure that all testing takes into account the emerging marketplace, not just in terms of new platforms and devices, but new uses, deployments, and geographies.
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