Real time projects - 1

Friends apologies for a week delay in blogging but I must admit that I am running short of ideas. Actually , I am not getting expected comments on my posts and as result not getting new ideas. Anyways, for today I am just sharing one of the assignment I worked on. It was a testing project for a US based mobile marketing company …. Sorry cant disclose the name as I have signed NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT in the company where I am employed  .

In today’s blog, I am just sharing my experience working a project, different types of testing carried out and overall experience.

Now the project was testing of compatibility of a third party device (I will name this CON ) with various mobile devices. CON delivers contents to mobile devices through Bluetooth. This is a new form of marketing “Bluetooth Marketing”. The manufacturing company has deployed this device at various public places in US. These CON’s detects different mobile device (whose Bluetooth is ON) falling in its range (which is approx. 30 meters) and as soon as a mobile device comes into the range some flashy message is transferred to the device for example – DO YOU WANT TO GET SOME NEW WALLPAPERS FROM PEPSI or something like that. The mobile user has an option to accept/reject the request. Now there are two different cases –

Case # 1 – if the user accepts the request then he/she is provided with some free content which can be a wallpaper, animated GIF file, ring tone, video, flash, HTML/URL OR a simple J2ME application and also some paid contents.

Case # 2 – if the user rejects the request then the information of the user (BDA/COD details of the device) is passed over the network to other CON’s so that if the mobile device comes into range of some other CON then no request should be send.

Coming to the testing part , testing activities includes –
- Interaction between the CON and the mobile device whether CON is able to detect the mobile device , able to communicate with the mobile device, able to transfer the contents
- Compatibility testing of the mobile with respect to the various contents delivered.
- Usability of the various contents delivered on the mobile device.
- Functional testing of the J2ME applications.

Addition to this there was a web interface provided by the marketing team which contains pictorial representation of the CON’s and the devices surrounding them (Off course blue tooth of the mobile is kept ON otherwise CON would not have been detected it). This web based tool was programmed to display the details of the surrounding devices and also to transfer contents to these devices in case a device rejects a request by mistake.

The concept ‘Bluetooth Marketing’ is still very new and it was exiting working on this project as I tested almost 300 + mobile devices of various carriers in US/UK, moreover all the testing part was done on DeviceAnywhere (DAW) platform. Overall this project was a good learning experience in terms of knowledge of new mobile devices (BREW/PALM/Blackberry/WINDOWS platform). Above all the client was very cool and does not pressurize for work which was the most good part 