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Selecting and evaluating a mobile application testing tool to support functional test automation can be a cumbersome task. Every tool in the market has a different set of features, limitations, challenges and caveats (which are often not discovered until after purchase or during a POC).

Before surveying the various tools in the market, begin with defining internal requirements for an automated mobile app testing tool. I recommend reviewing our article on the most common mobile application testing automation tool requiremen Read Entire Entry

It’s no secret that mobile applications, native, hybrid and web based, are in high consumer demand. The world is moving from the desktop to mobile devices. Tablets are projected to outsell PCs by Q3 2012 and mobile devices outshipped PCs in 2011. Mobile devices and tablets are the technology of the future. If your organization is not already invested in mobile applications, there’s a strong chance you will be in the near future.

Our clients asked us for solution recommendations and requirements to tackle the task of automat Read Entire Entry

There are multiple testing considerations associated with each aspect of the BYOD implementation, End Point Testing, MDM Solution Testing, or Corporate Solution Testing.

Probably the most obvious strategy area is end point testing. This testing focuses on the mobile device itself and whether or not the device is able to access corporate applications, such as email, contacts, calendar, VPN, and so on, that are part of the corporate BYOD strategy.

The five suggestions that follow address what I consider to be the Top 5 testi Read Entire Entry

On July 22, 2010 – The U.S. Copyright Office, a division of the Library of Congress, authorized several new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), one of which allowed mobile phone users to “jailbreak” their devices to use apps not authorized by the phone’s manufacturer.

While this move was heralded by niche application development shops and iPhone users, Apple was not so thrilled with what they perceived as giving carte blanche freedom to users to “hack” into their tightly controlled Apple devices and Read Entire Entry

I’ve been doing some research on “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD), which seems to be a new trendy thing to do. It’s pretty interesting to see how companies are dealing with the consumerization of IT, because it is shifting the entire IT culture right before our eyes.

Users (not IT professionals) are getting the latest technologies and gadgets first. It makes sense that they want to bring them to work and continue to use them. According to this 2011 survey by Good Technology, workers are willing to bear cost of the devices (as w Read Entire Entry

At the STAR EAST conference this year, mobile solutions saturated the vendor exhibition area. It’s no wonder that mobile application testing is the hot in the testing community right now. Testers are now faced with the task of testing mobile versions of their applications and figuring out how to adapt to the new paradigm (and challenges) mobile applications bring. It’s not as if they didn’t have enough to test already, right?

After listening to some of the conversations around mobile and seeing some interesting questions be Read Entire Entry

This past January, I attended the HP Global Partner Conference. I listened to an informative session by Gartner. According to their surveys, the top three initiatives for CIO’s this year are:

Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Mobile

Here’s the latest graphic from Gartner for Emerging Technologies:

Why Business Intelligence?
The BI and analytics market was the second-fastest growing sector in the overall worldwide enterprise software market in 2011. IT continues to spend on it, and it Read Entire Entry