TESTING A MOBILE APPLICATION

• US 20140357250A1
• Filed: 02/07/2012
• Published: 12/04/2014
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,136,345 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• 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:

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

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

2. The method of claim 1, wherein simulating the cellular network condition includes simulating using cellular network predictors.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein simulating includes altering a cellular signal from a cellular provider during the simulation.

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

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

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

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

simulate a cellular network condition for each of a plurality of locations;

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

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

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

8. The medium of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further executable to receive routed mobile application traffic from the stationary mobile device.

9. The medium of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further executable to determine a mobile application functionality for each of the plurality of simulated cellular network conditions.

10. The medium of claim 7, wherein the simulated cellular network conditions include at least one of signal strength and bandwidth for a geographical location.

11. The medium of claim 7, wherein the stationary mobile device is a mobile device simulator.

12. A system for testing a mobile application, the system comprising a processing resource in communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium includes a set of instructions and wherein the processing resource is designed to carry out the set of instructions to:

simulate a cellular network condition of a first location;

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, wherein the real mobile device is operating on the simulated cellular network condition of the first location.

13. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the first location has a different cellular network condition than the second location.

14. The computing system of claim 12, further including the processing resource designed to carry out the set of instructions to test performance of the mobile application utilizing an automation engine.

15. The computing system of claim 12, further including the processing resource designed to carry out the set of instructions, to:

synchronize execution of the simulation and execution of the test; and

change to a different cellular network condition during the simulation based on the synchronization.