Looking for software oppinions

[ArickD916]

Hi,

Our company is just starting to formally do software QA testing. I am new in mobile application testing and I'm very confused in selecting opensource tool for testing native / hybrid mobile apps in android / IOS platform.  One of my tasks is to come up with some software ideas to help with this. What I would like to know is what software are people using successfully? I am especially interested in automated end-user software for acceptance testing and also developer/tester-faced software for component testing, integration testing, and system testing. This could be a single piece or multiple pieces of software. Price of the software will be an issue for us, but can justify a higher price if it is multi-functional and easy to use. All opinions would be helpful and welcome. Thanks in advance.

[Joel Montvelisky]

Hi Arick,

I think that the most complex thing about mobile testing will be environment support, and how this will be influenced even by the different flavors of the phones and o/s that you will get in each.

I've worked with a number of customers working on mobile devices, and for most of them the biggest challenge was getting a hold to enough "native devices" as possible.  For this a number of them used systems like http://www.perfectomobile.com/ if they wanted to perform their tests internally, and some of them went for the approach of "in the wild testing" that you can achieve with companies like http://www.utest.com/.

There are also some pretty good functional testing frameworks that you can use (both for tester and dev testing) such as - http://experitest.com/.

BTW, one of the biggest challenges will be making sense of all your tests and results, as well as managing all your test library, requirements and issues, for this one you can check out the system we are developing in our company - http://practitest.com - as I said we have a number of customers working on mobile apps and managing their process with us.

Hope this helped!

-joel