HP_QTP_DeviceAnywher_MOLab.pdf

Testing challenges for mobile applications The abundance of handsets available today is great for consumers and the mobile industry—but can be a headache when it comes to the testing and deployment of applications. Mobile companies must provide applications that are compatible across devices that often have varied form factors, features, operating systems, and processing capabilities. New technologies, along with the extensive variety of devices and configurations, pose additional challenges for mobile application testers. With so many smartphones, mobile phones, and PDAs on the market, how do you ensure that your applications will work as expected on all of them? How can you test them on all popular mobile operating systems and keep current with the new OS (operating system) versions as they become available? How can you create a test set that would run through all common business transactions on a mobile device with hundreds of different sets of data to check for errors? The answer to these questions lies in mobile device test automation. Only by investing in a test automation strategy and solutions can you create a comprehensive approach to mobile application quality and reliability. By implementing device-agnostic end-to-end testing solutions, you can say with confidence that your mobile applications will work on any device, with any language, any configuration, and on all popular operating systems. Build your test sets once and run them on every new version of the application. By creating scripts that are easy to maintain and reuse, you can ensure that your mobile applications do not cause costly business interruptions or have a negative impact on customer experience. Mobile application test automation solution from HP and DeviceAnywhereTM HP Software provides the most advanced automated functional and regression testing solutions that support all major software applications and environments. Through partnerships with cutt