Testing a mobile application

• US 10,136,345 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2012
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: entIT Software LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Nitsan, Amichai, Sasson, Iris, Tunik, Gal
• Primary Examiner(s): Lett, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/374,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20140357250A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,478 Days
• Field of Search: 455418
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/06 Testing, supervising or monitoring using simulated traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for testing a mobile application. Testing a mobile application can include simulating a cellular network condition for each of a plurality of locations utilizing a network simulation engine. Furthermore, testing a mobile application can include testing performance of the mobile application for each of the simulated cellular network conditions.

Claims

1. A method for testing a mobile application, comprising:

routing communication between a cellular provider and a real mobile device to a network simulation engine of a computing device;

simulating a cellular network condition for each of a plurality of locations utilizing the network simulation engine and the routed communication;

sending the simulated cellular network conditions to the real mobile device; and

testing performance of the mobile application on the real mobile device for each of the simulated cellular network conditions.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein simulating the cellular network conditions for the plurality of locations is performed while the real mobile device is at a single location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein routing the communication includes altering a cellular signal from the cellular provider to the real mobile device during the simulating.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein simulating the cellular network conditions comprises utilizing collected cellular network data for a plurality of geographical locations during the simulating.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising synchronizing execution of the testing and execution of the simulating.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein testing performance of the mobile application includes utilizing an automation engine that sends a request to the mobile application for the testing.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each respective simulated cellular network condition of the simulated cellular network conditions is sent as if the respective simulated cellular network condition was produced directly from the cellular provider.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising testing the performance of a firmware on the real mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the cellular network condition is simulated for a location different than a location of the real mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein simulating the cellular network condition includes, for a respective location among the plurality of locations:

receiving, from a cellular probe, data of network conditions associated with the respective location; and

simulating the cellular network condition using the data.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions executable by a processor to cause a computer to:

route communication between a cellular provider and a stationary real mobile device to the computer, wherein the stationary real mobile device is located in a single location;

simulate a cellular network condition for each of a plurality of simulated locations, using the routed communication;

send the simulated cellular network conditions for the plurality of simulated locations to the stationary real mobile device;

receive a mobile application performance report from the stationary real mobile device; and

determine a mobile application performance for the stationary real mobile device for each of the simulated cellular network conditions based on the performance report.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions are further executable to determine a mobile application functionality for each of the simulated cellular network conditions.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the simulated cellular network conditions include at least one of signal strength and bandwidth for a simulated geographical location.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions to simulate the cellular network condition for each of the plurality of simulated locations includes instructions executable by the processor to:

generate the simulated network condition for a simulated location among the plurality of simulated locations by adjusting properties of a cellular network condition at a location of the computer.

15. A system for testing a mobile application, the system comprising a processor in communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions executable by the processor to:

route communication between a cellular provider and a real mobile device to the processor;

simulate a cellular network condition of a first location, using the routed communication;

send the simulated cellular network condition to a real mobile device at a second location; and

determine performance of a mobile application operating on the real mobile device at the second location, wherein the real mobile device is operating on the simulated cellular network condition of the first location.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the first location has a different cellular network condition than the second location.

17. The system of claim 15, further including the processor to execute instructions to test performance of the mobile application utilizing an automation engine that sends a request to the mobile application as part of testing that determines the performance of the mobile application.

18. The system of claim 15, further including the processor to execute instructions to:

synchronize execution of the simulating and the determining of the performance; and

change to a different cellular network condition during the simulating based on the synchronizing.