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What is the best way to test mobile app across several networks and phones?

5 points by rokhayakebe 19y ago

NonEUCitizen 19y ago
i have not used this myself, but seems to be a good option (if claims are true): http://deviceanywhere.com/index.jsp http://deviceanywhere.com/index.jsp if you try it, i would be interested in how you find the service.
- rokhayakebe 19y ago
  Nice. but cost too much. Thanks for the link.
merlot-qa 19y ago
Got a budget? Check with centercode.com; they have a pool of volunteer testers, and can send out a survey to select users with the target phones on the target networks. No budget? It's a really tough problem. Test where you can and ask for reports from other users. Offer something of value or interest for detailed bug reports from platforms you can't test yourself. There are only so many J2ME base platforms so you can group by those, but in the end you need to test on each specific device.
- rokhayakebe 19y ago
  Not too bad centercode. Thank you Merlot.
simul 19y ago
In the past I have used a combination of tools: - Smartphne emulator developer edition (comercial) from yospace (http://www.yospace.com/spede.html) http://www.yospace.com/spede.html) - Two firefox extenstions: user agent switcher, wmlbrowser. - You can find some more info. at http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ . Their mailing list is pretty good too.
- rokhayakebe 19y ago
  Yospace is really cool. thank you
jsjenkins168 19y ago
What language are you writing your app in? If using J2ME, I would suggest checking out J2ME Polish to organize your builds across multiple platforms. There is a built in device database that lists most phones along with their supported APIs. While it wont replace eventual real-world testing, it at least allows you to focus in on devices that support the specific APIs, form factors, etc that you need and ignore the ones which you do not. The J2ME Polish GUI libraries are also excellent and work well across different devices.
- rokhayakebe 19y ago
  thank you. That would be nice but it doesn't test the functionality from one operator to the other.

5 points by rokhayakebe 19y ago

i have not used this myself, but seems to be a good option (if claims are true): http://deviceanywhere.com/index.jsp http://deviceanywhere.com/index.jsp if you try it, i would be interested in how you find the service.

rokhayakebe 19y ago
Nice. but cost too much. Thanks for the link.

merlot-qa 19y ago

Got a budget? Check with centercode.com; they have a pool of volunteer testers, and can send out a survey to select users with the target phones on the target networks. No budget? It's a really tough problem. Test where you can and ask for reports from other users. Offer something of value or interest for detailed bug reports from platforms you can't test yourself. There are only so many J2ME base platforms so you can group by those, but in the end you need to test on each specific device.

rokhayakebe 19y ago
Not too bad centercode. Thank you Merlot.

simul 19y ago

In the past I have used a combination of tools: - Smartphne emulator developer edition (comercial) from yospace (http://www.yospace.com/spede.html) http://www.yospace.com/spede.html) - Two firefox extenstions: user agent switcher, wmlbrowser. - You can find some more info. at http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ . Their mailing list is pretty good too.

rokhayakebe 19y ago
Yospace is really cool. thank you

jsjenkins168 19y ago

What language are you writing your app in? If using J2ME, I would suggest checking out J2ME Polish to organize your builds across multiple platforms. There is a built in device database that lists most phones along with their supported APIs. While it wont replace eventual real-world testing, it at least allows you to focus in on devices that support the specific APIs, form factors, etc that you need and ignore the ones which you do not. The J2ME Polish GUI libraries are also excellent and work well across different devices.

rokhayakebe 19y ago
thank you. That would be nice but it doesn't test the functionality from one operator to the other.