The planet today can surely witness the boost of Mobile phone area. From feature phones to Smartphones mobile handsets are flowing through in to specialized niche like never ever before.
Based on Gartner 428 Million Mobile Communication Gadgets Sold Worldwide in First Quarter 2011, a 19 Percent Increase Year-on-Year. Manufacturers, Carriers Platforms are coming up with their own personal mobile application stores of free and paid application.
From mobile video games to company applications and from enjoyment to LBS programs cell 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 using the opportunities with this market the competition is also getting more frustrating and tougher. Just to place in a indisputable fact that one in four mobile apps once downloaded are never used again. Consequently there is no hesitation that in order to survive in this specialized niche Mobile Developers needs to find good Ideas and with Good quality of Mobile applications.
Mobile Application Testing is totally new in the sphere of testing. Speaking about snags Id love to emphasize that Mobile Application Testing challenges are somewhat interrelated but a bit different as per the Mobile Developers and for that reason as for Mobile QAS. However before indulging straight in to Mobile Application checking, we might know that what are the real pains this industry is facing.
Thousands of Cell Handsets: For portable builders, without doubt it is one of the prevalent challenges that they could ever face. With the intention to arrive at a mobile application, one needs to be very sure in regards to the devices they can be targeting. According to an enquiry 1388.2 million handsets were purchased in year 2010. These tools are of varied screen sizes, input options (QWERTY, touch, normal) with varying hardware performance. Being aware of the indisputable fact that testing on every device is not possible in any respect, the diversity in handsets is a wide undertaking for Mobile builders.
Varying Mobile Platforms/OS: There are different Platforms/OS currently located in the market place. Android, IOS, BREW, BREWMP, Symbian, Windows 7, Blackberry (RIM) and so on. Range in mobile platforms, distinctive OS variants and platform limitation cause it to be a bit difficult and challenging for establishing mobile apps and so for testing them. There could be chance of inconsistency concerning functionality across multiple devices of same platform and each platform could possibly have some exclusions.
Different Mobile Carriers/Manufacturers:-There can be different cell carriers available in the market and every creator may have some norms depending on cell application, when the application is coming preinstalled inside of the device.
Based on Gartner 428 Million Mobile Communication Gadgets Sold Worldwide in First Quarter 2011, a 19 Percent Increase Year-on-Year. Manufacturers, Carriers Platforms are coming up with their own personal mobile application stores of free and paid application.
From mobile video games to company applications and from enjoyment to LBS programs cell 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 using the opportunities with this market the competition is also getting more frustrating and tougher. Just to place in a indisputable fact that one in four mobile apps once downloaded are never used again. Consequently there is no hesitation that in order to survive in this specialized niche Mobile Developers needs to find good Ideas and with Good quality of Mobile applications.
Mobile Application Testing is totally new in the sphere of testing. Speaking about snags Id love to emphasize that Mobile Application Testing challenges are somewhat interrelated but a bit different as per the Mobile Developers and for that reason as for Mobile QAS. However before indulging straight in to Mobile Application checking, we might know that what are the real pains this industry is facing.
Thousands of Cell Handsets: For portable builders, without doubt it is one of the prevalent challenges that they could ever face. With the intention to arrive at a mobile application, one needs to be very sure in regards to the devices they can be targeting. According to an enquiry 1388.2 million handsets were purchased in year 2010. These tools are of varied screen sizes, input options (QWERTY, touch, normal) with varying hardware performance. Being aware of the indisputable fact that testing on every device is not possible in any respect, the diversity in handsets is a wide undertaking for Mobile builders.
Varying Mobile Platforms/OS: There are different Platforms/OS currently located in the market place. Android, IOS, BREW, BREWMP, Symbian, Windows 7, Blackberry (RIM) and so on. Range in mobile platforms, distinctive OS variants and platform limitation cause it to be a bit difficult and challenging for establishing mobile apps and so for testing them. There could be chance of inconsistency concerning functionality across multiple devices of same platform and each platform could possibly have some exclusions.
Different Mobile Carriers/Manufacturers:-There can be different cell carriers available in the market and every creator may have some norms depending on cell application, when the application is coming preinstalled inside of the device.
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