Mobile Application Testing
Mobile applications are first tested within the development environment using emulators and later subjected to field testing. Emulators provide an inexpensive way to test applications on mobile phones to which developers may not have physical access. The following are examples of tools used for testing application across the most popular mobile operating systems.
- Google Android Emulator
It is Android Emulator which is patched to run on a Windows PC as a standalone app without having to download and install the complete and complex Android SDK. It can be installed and Android compatible apps can be tested on it.
- Official Android SDK Emulator
It includes a mobile device emulator which mimics all of the hardware and software features of a typical mobile device (without the calls).
- eggPlant for mobile testing:eggPlant delivers a robotic solution to mobile testing across all operating systems and devices.
- MobiOne
MobiOne Developer is a mobile Web IDE for Windows that helps developers to code, test, debug, package and deploy mobile Web applications to devices such as iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and the Palm Pre.
- TestiPhone
It is a web browser based simulator for quickly testing iPhone web applications. This tool has been tested and works using Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 and Safari 3.
- iPhoney
It gives a pixel-accurate web browsing environment and it is powered by Safari. It can be used while developing web sites for the iPhone. It is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone.iPhoney will only run on Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later.
- BlackBerry Simulator
There are a variety of official BlackBerry simulators available to emulate the functionality of actual BlackBerry products and test how the BlackBerry device software, screen, keyboard and trackwheel will work with application.
- ZAP-fiX for Mobile Application Testing:ZAP-fiX delivers a universal solution to mobile application testing across all operating systems and devices.
- SeeTest from Experitest supports all the major mobile platforms (iOS, Android and Blackberry). It enable element identification using Native / Image and Text recognition. And it comes with integration into platforms like QTP, MSTest, Java/JUnit, Python and Perl.
- Ranorex for Mobile App Test Automation supports object-based test automation of Android, iOS and Windows 8 Apps.
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