Cloud Mobile App&web Test

Ravindra Pilli is now a mobile test architect at Marlabs. For more than 8 years, he worked as a test engineer, senior Test engineer, and test TL and mobile test architect. He has worked at Accenture, Samsung and Ericsson. Ravindra is a member of the Testing Excellence Delivery Center, responsible for functionality, automation, compatibility, performance, networking, and field testing.

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New mobile apps are constantly being developed, and millions of of mobile device users around the world instantly consume apps developed by these letters on their smartphones and tablets. It's no wonder. Mobility is a key factor for companies to rethink their business models, restructure their employees and design their operations for the future.
Creating and testing mobile apps that work flawlessly and meet high user requirements is not easy or inexpensive. But if the test team can:
  ?? Reduce test infrastructure costs and improve test quality:
Introduce centralized, software-based, and efficient hardware.  
  ?? Provides the fastest time to market:
significantly improves new handheld devices, apps, and content ingestion time.  
  ?? Automating mobile apps and Web testing:
simply implement test scripts on new devices, significantly reducing test time, and proposing higher-quality test methods.  
  ?? Provides a highly scalable solution:
Non-intrusive phone connections, and high-density interchangeable devices.  
  ?? 7 days, 24 hours, anywhere, safely tested:
wi-fi/High Security on Wired.  
Cloud-based mobile testing is a solution that makes all this possible. You can combine the benefits of mobile test strategy and cloud technology to improve the quality and operation of your test team.

What is it?
Test experts will remotely test their customers ' mobile apps on thousands of real devices around the world, using best-in-class mobile test automation, performance and monitoring technology, so that teams around the world can collaborate and share information in real time. Cloud-based mobile testing is a test method for optimizing mobile apps and web testing. It saves time and infrastructure maintenance costs through the following methods:
?? Automate mobile app testing on demand in the cloud.
?? Flexible support for multiple platforms--iphone,android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry and Java me smart machine, tablet and operating system.
?? Ensure mobile apps can be verified on a large number of real-world phones and networks.
?? Eliminate the need to buy different devices and platforms.
?? Greatly shorten the test cycle.
?? Ensure quality of service on a variety of mobile platforms and devices.
?? Enable continuous integration of your organization, enabling you to develop, create, deploy, and test in a managed, scheduled, and automated manner.
?? Flexible use of a scalable cloud-based solution to design or run unit tests on real devices and/or emulators.
?? Perform exploratory manual testing on real devices (for example, tests that contain calls or text messages when the app is running).
You don't have to wait for devices or platforms to test new mobile apps. Instead, you can spend less time and effort maintaining your test infrastructure and testing mobile apps faster and more efficiently. Cloud-based mobile testing makes everything easier.

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　　Test mobile apps and web
Cloud-based mobile app testing can be rebuilt to work with third-party developers, other business partners, and customers from anywhere. Use multiple devices, different operating systems, screen configurations, and operators to test apps easily, quickly and inexpensively in real-world environments. With cloud-based mobile testing, your tests don't have to wait for others to provide dozens of different devices and sign agreements with multiple carriers. Instead, you can adapt your test process to meet market and technology trends in real time-and stay competitive by enabling high-quality mobile apps to run faster in the hands of users.

　　Cloud Mobile Testing
Cloud-based mobile app and Web test solution providers offer a wide range of options for easy-to-access real-world mobile device hardware and software across the network.
This allows developers and testers around the world to connect to the full range of the latest mobile phones and tablets online. Because the entire infrastructure belongs to the Mobile test lab network, the test team has dedicated connectivity capabilities that are equivalent to their current on-premises environment.

　　Test on multiple devices and networks on demand
Building the infrastructure you need on different devices, geographies, and networks and testing mobile apps can greatly impact your project budget and delay time-to-market. Costs and delays mean that there is no need for equipment or services at all during the extension period. With cloud-based testing, we have a scalable and affordable solution that we can:
?? Reduce your supply costs by 50% or more as long as you pay for what you need, when you need it.
?? Test online carriers and Wi-Fi. The supported carriers have 4G suppliers in the United States (including T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint) as well as Wi-Fi and global network providers.
?? Use engineers from around the world to test it on the Internet.

　　Network performance
Cloud-based mobile testing services make it easy for testers and developers to access a large number of real-world phones and tablets (connected to live mobile networks in different regions) to streamline the development, testing, support, and monitoring of mobile web and apps. Cloud-based mobile test solutions typically use a high-speed global network. Therefore, the test team has a dedicated connection and the test environment is always executed at the fastest speed.

　　Control the cost of expensive infrastructure
Do not expand your project budget for unnecessary infrastructure maintenance costs.
The mobile app market is too wide. On-demand pricing makes it easier to manage the price of your mobile app's test infrastructure, as it is paid for by the device, network operator, and time required to test the mobile app actually. Online testing saves shipping costs by adding/removing the number of devices according to each customer's needs, saving on the time and cost of purchasing equipment and operators (when they are used for a very short test period). Select Manual or Automated usage mode on a per-hour, weekly, monthly basis.

　　Make better use of your automated test investment
The biggest challenge for mobile testing today is managing a large number of devices for testing apps. Needless to say, these devices are not necessarily available to people everywhere, or lost in the team transfer.
The biggest difference with other mobile device clouds is the installation of the device cloud within your own infrastructure, eliminating any security issues. The solution can be used anywhere in a company with an Ethernet or WiFi connection. The new device has only one insert/unplug feature and is able to manage devices, applications, and users across the company through the management console. The cloud-based solution integrates functionality and regression testing tools to test mobile apps, allowing testers to remotely access and test devices, including Android and iOS, on a web-based control platform. At the same time, manage test environments that include device pools, details, apps, and other test infrastructures. They can choose from different network operators located around the world, simulating various intensities and different network conditions. Many solutions have their own proprietary automation programming tools or all provide common automation tools for seamless integration.
With cloud-based mobile testing, test teams can invest the most in advanced tools, such as HP QTP, that can make mobile app testing easier and more efficient. By simply integrating cloud-based mobile testing into automated tools such as QTP, automated testers can quickly build automated scripts using the cloud platform. Cloud-based mobile testing methods automate local, hybrid, and web apps on a cloud-based platform to ensure unified testing.

　　Security
Security is not dispensable in financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences and other competitive industries. Mobility plays an important role in the future work of these industries. Sure. A cloud-based mobile test environment can provide the same level of protection if it is done entirely in a secure data center because:
?? The data stored in the device is fairly secure and is on a mature private cloud.
?? Only your authorized users can access and test the battery life of the specified mobile phone only.

You can move test labs in the cloud to effectively perform the following types of mobile tests:

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