Presentation for SQA Days 2012

1. Utilization of emulators and simulators in
mobile testing

2. Mobile OS popularity in the world

3. Mobile OS popularity in the USA

4. Emulators are used for
• developing mobile websites and
applications
• rapid smoke-tests
• testing in parallel with physical
devices

5. Emulation of devices and browsers
• Device emulators can
be found in vendor’s
SDK
• Browser emulators are
distributed by their
developers
• Exception – Java apps
emulation (jme & jse)

6. Available device emulators
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Tools_and_downloa
Symbian SDK
ds/Other/
iOS https://developer.apple.com/xcode/index.php
Android http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
BlackBerry http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/simulators.jsp
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylan
Windows Phone 7
g=en&id=27570
Java app emulator http://www.microemu.org/

7. Mobile browsers emulators
Opera Mini http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mini/
Opera Mobile http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mobile/
Standard device browsers are emulated
together with the devices

8. Nokia (Symbian) emulators
Symbian Belle 1.0, Symbian 3 1.0,
Nokia N97
Symbian 5th Edition, Symbian 3rd Edition, FP2 v
1.1.
http://www.developer.nokia.com/R
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
esources/Tools_and_downloads/Ot
S60 3rd Edition
her/
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2 (formerly 2.2)
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (formerly 2.1)
S60 2nd Edition (formerly 2.0)
S60 1st Edition, Feature Pack 1 (formerly 1.2)
S60 1st Edition (formerly 0.9)
Old Series 40 SDKs http://www.developer.nokia.com/D
(for these emulators prerequisite is required - evelop/Java/Tools/Series_40_platfo
Java 6 Update 27 or earlier) rm_SDKs/

9. iOS emulators
The most convenient ones: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/index.php
To use them one must have OS X computer or a virtual
machine with Mac OS to install XCode environment

10. Android emulators
Less convenient than BlackBerry,
and the necessary devices are not http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
always found here:
Device vendors may have additional add-ons for these
emulators, or even their own emulators for more reliable
emulation

11. BlackBerry emulators
http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/
The most easy-to-use emulators
simulators.jsp
To work with Internet you’ll need
BlackBerry® Email and MDS http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/
Services Simulator Package
Also require Java prerequisite

12. Windows Phone emulators
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details
Standard emulator:
.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27570
To install applications you’ll need Application
Deployment
Be careful – when restarted, everything returns to
default settings.

13. Specific devices and OS – remote
access to devices
S60 3rd Edition - Symbian Belle – the
easiest way to test via Nokia Remote http://apu.ndhub.net/
Device Access
Samsung Android - Remote Test Lab http://rtl.innovator.samsungmobile.com
Samsung Bada - Remote Test Lab http://rtl.innovator.samsungmobile.com

14. Thanks!
About Softheme:
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applications since 2009.
More than 30 mobile applications successfully released.