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Desktop tools test mobile Web apps


By Alex Handy
September 15, 2008 — 
Testing Web applications on mobile devices can require a lot of thumb work. For developers building software to run across multiple types of phones and vendors, figuring out what flies and what dies is half the battle. Keynote Systems claims to alleviate this headache with its Mobile Interactive Testing Environment (MITE).

The suite of desktop-based testing software can pass mobile Web content through 1,100 phone profiles and log the results, according to Keynote.

Nisheeth Mohan, product manager for mobile technologies at Keynote, said the suite is the company’s first foray into the mobile testing market. “Developers have a big challenge when it comes to writing code and preparing content on mobile sites,” said Mohan. “Their biggest problem is that they have to support hundreds of devices on the market, with different LCD sizes. A site might look nice on one, but not render so well on another.”

Thus, MITE runs Web content through a 1,100 simulated phones, from Motorola to Nokia, Blackberry to LG. One notably absent phone profile is the iPhone, which Mohan said uses a standard browser. “The iPhone is a mobile device that downloads regular Web content. It has a real browser. MITE is targeted more at mobile content—content built specifically for mobile devices.”

Such devices, Mohan said, often have widely variant needs when it comes to displaying Web content. Thus the suite “tests for features, such as what kind of images a device supports, or how big the images can be. What are the content types [the device] supports? When a developer starts using this product, all they need to do is select a device, and the product not only renders the content as it would look on that emulated device, but also gives you info about the source code, [such as] whether the source code has any bugs.”

Mohan said that the existing complement of 1,100 devices can be bolstered by additional profiles if needed. Test results can be exported into Excel and include everything from the speed with which a page downloaded on each device to the amount of space used to cache the content.

MITE is available in a free 15-day trial. It runs on Windows. A single user license costs US$1,500 for one year.


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