Testing Applications on Mobile Devices

Published January 4th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

In the highly competitive world of mobile applications, getting high-quality apps to market quickly can make or break the success of a product. With new applications for Android, iPhone and Blackberry battling for media attention and consumer dollars, the pressure to get apps built, tested and launched has never been greater. But the testing methods that have worked for web and desktop app companies (in-house QA, offshore testing firms, emulators/simulators, beta testers, etc.) dont meet the QA needs of mobile apps. The testing matrices in the mobile app world have become far too complex. Companies must test their apps across handset makers, handset models, wireless carriers, OS and browsers. And beyond that, they MUST account for location-based testing a task that has proven difficult and prohibitively expensive for even the most mature and sophisticated teams. This unmet challenge calls for a new approach. Crowdsourcing is uniquely suited to meet this challenge.

Debugging Arts of the Ninja Masters

Published December 21st, 2009 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Ever have one of those days where your application just doesn’t run correctly, and you can’t figure out why? Well, we’ve been there, and we’re going to show you how to fix it. In this session, Justin Mattson will school you on the advanced usage of Android debugging tools like traceview, the hierarchy viewer, and the instrumentation system. He’ll also present several case studies where Google used these tools to solve real world problems, and show you the before-and-after results.

Singning Security and Testing on Java ME

Published December 9th, 2009 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

An explanation on benefits of certification on the Java platform

iPhone Acceptance Testing with uispec

Published November 30th, 2009 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

UISpec is a Behavior Driven Development framework for the iPhone that provides a full automated testing solution that drives the actual iPhone UI. It is modeled after the very popular RSpec for Ruby. To make finding specific views in the iPhone UI easy, UISpec includes a very powerful view traversal DSL called UIQuery. Not only can you easily traverse the view heirarchy, you can also interact with the views you find.

JInjector: a Code Coverage and End-To-End Testing Framework for J2ME and RIM

Published January 12th, 2009 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

A wide range of J2ME applications are GUI-rich with significant code dedicated to handle the user interface (UI). To maximize the chances of detecting bugs, effective testing of such applications require end-to-end testing on devices. Unfortunately there are few software tools suitable for testing J2ME applications. Our tool, JInjector, instruments the application under test in order to run automated tests in emulators and on the actual devices we need to support. At GTAC we will present two of the features provided by JInjector: code coverage, and end-to-end testing. As a proof-of-concept we will show a demo of an end-to-end test suite applied to Google’s Java ME YouTube client running both in the WTK emulator from Sun Microsystems, and on a Nokia N95. The injected code enabled testing of most of the features of the application, including search, login and video upload as well as navigate through the videos. We discovered that the injected code needed be customized to support the custom GUI code, and changes to the GUI code sometimes means the tests have to be updated – an ongoing maintenance task. We will also explain how this end-to-end test can be integrated with a build system

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