Mobile and Wireless Device Testing Solutions

Mobile and Wireless Testing Challenges

Mobile device and wireless networks complexity is continuously increasing due to the multitude of mobile operating systems and wireless technologies, and the growing consumer demand for upgraded handsets and services. As a result, mobile device and wireless equipment manufacturers must produce and test increasingly complex multifunctional products. At the same time, mobile network operators (MNOs) need to shorten time to market of new devices, models and features, while maintaining service quality and reducing costs.

TestShell for Mobile and Wireless

TestShell's unique capabilities allow mobile device vendors, wireless equipment manufacturers and MNOs to achieve increased test coverage.

TestShell Test Automation Solutions provide:

• A Complete Validation Testing Framework for any kind of device, platform, interface or network, covering:
• Functionality (e.g. keypad/touch screen remote control, messaging, call establishment, phonebook operations, browser & rich content/camera)
• Performance status during action (e.g. CPU, memory, screen capture)
• User experience (e.g. voice and sound quality, MMI)
• Stability (e.g. crashes, simultaneous resource operation, soft/hard resets)
• Device/application-level performance (e.g. UI, functionality, device performance log files)
• Service-lab testing support - TestShell's debugging capabilities enable using any test and measurement instrument such as mobile station testers, power supplies and scopes. Its remote debugging capabilities reduce overhead and improve customer experience and service by removing the need for in-lab testing of faulty devices.
• Mobile drive-test support - TestShell allows remote control and monitoring of mobile devices, including running test scripts, logging and analyzing device parameters (e.g. network parameters, GPS inputs, device status).
• Easy environmental compliance - TestShell enables real-time Base Transceiver Station (BTS) monitoring for ongoing measurement, notification, storage and documentation of antenna emission rates, resulting in enhanced regulation control and auditing.

The TestShell for Mobile and Wireless Testing Advantage

TestShell's total automation system incorporates everything necessary to allow mobile industry leaders meet their complex design, manufacturing and troubleshooting test challenges:

• Cross-platform support - Powered by RealVNC and TestShell Mobile agent TestShell manages and controls feature phones as well as smart phones based on Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, BREW and other OS s.
• Wide interface support - TestShell supports a large variety of mobile device interfaces including Wi-Fi, Serial, BT, IR communication layer, data (cellular) and other API-based interfaces.
• Code-free test creation - a friendly user interface allows easy point and click test creation, via flexible, tailored GUI components such as interactive keypad, touch screen and picture-based interfaces for each device; while providing a "record and replay" capability for user actions.
• Maximum test reusability - By using a solution that enables complete separation between test scenarios and mobile phone specifics, and by implementing a scalable test structure, TestShell reduces test update requirements when a new device, OS or embedded component is introduced, while enabling strong collaboration across distributed test teams.
• Reporting and standardization - TestShell's unified automated testing environment and central database allow easy creation of standardized tests and reports, showing test results, logs and relevant screen captures. TestShell's reporting capabilities include the ability to record the entire Test sequence into a video file, and replay it later on for debug and debriefing purposes.

QualiSystems' TestShell is an end-to-end test automation framework compatible for testing virtually any hardware, electronic-device and embedded system. While providing advanced test management, code free test authoring, automatic test execution and comprehensive test reporting and analysis, TestShell helps organizations and service providers to improve product quality, shorten time to market, significantly reduce capital and operational expenditures and streamline compliance and audit trails.

Learn more about what TestShell can do for you.