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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mobile Application Certifications

There days mobile applications are on real boom specially after the entry of mobile platforms like Iphone/Blackberry/Android. As far as testing of mobile applications is concerned , a mobile app has to be tested on functionality aspects and on other aspects as well. You might have gone through my previous post mentioning major points of consideration while testing a mobile application. In this post, I am concentrating on testing the mobile application on other aspects. One such aspect is vendor certification testing which is done in order to get your application available on different app stores so that end users can download and use it further. Due to the boom and increasing number of mobile applications everyday different mobile technology/platform vendors have provided centralized places from where user can download the available applications such as Apple app store for apple, Windows Marketplace for windows, Blackberry App World for windows, Mobile Shop for BREW. These technology vendors have provided generalized tests, In order to place/release their application to users software vendors has to get them passed through these tests.

So far, following vendors have defined their test process and provided the test cases

- BREW – The process is known as ‘True BREW Certification’ and a set of test cases provide for this is known as ‘‘True BREW Test’ OR TBT in popular.
- Windows marketplace submission criteria for placing the application on Windows market place.
- Java verified program for J2ME applications.
- Symbian signed criteria for getting the application signed by symbian

All these above concentrates on general behavior, stability and functionality of the application. These are not at all related to testing of specific functionality but concentrates on general attributes which every application should posses.

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