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Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 1:57PM | Tim Anema I recently used DeviceAnywhere to test a mobile file management application on the Google Android platform and these are some of my thoughts. First, DeviceAnywhere is a mobile application testing platform. For the uninitiated one thing is important to understand... DeviceAnywhere is not an emulator. The platform enables physical interactions with hardware mobile devices through a connection. Whereas an emulator might not capture all of a device's little quirks, DeviceAnywhere enables you to test directly to any platform and carrier. This is especially great when testing things like Android devices being that there is a large number of platforms and OS versions, you could test on all of them if you wished. Also when a bug report is logged and the developer is unable to reproduce the issue on an emulator or in-house device, they can quickly acquire the user's same device leveraging DeviceAnywhere.
Using DeviceAnywhere Test Center
DeviceAnywhere has enabled me to do QA on several different Android platforms and operating systems without owning any of them. This greatly reduces cost while maximizing capabilities. The interface is intuitive and easy to use. Every device has 3G (where applicable) access, wifi access, and phone access for testing of all sorts.
Some Drawbacks
Newer devices are slow to be fully supported and fully functional. The interface for the most part seems very slow and becomes unresponsive at times. Also logging is non-existent in the application. Other similar tools have the ability to extract a log from the device and I ended up using a separate app called log-collector to retrieve logs easily. Lastly, because the devices are actual physical devices, some times when you connect to one it can be cluttered from past use. I have seen really bad examples of this, such as people leaving their gmail synced on an Android device and leaving me with full access to their account.
Conclusion
All in all I really like this tool. It has made my QA life easier but I would primarily suggest it for bug checking and smoke tests (very quick test case passes). I would still recommend using one or two local devices (physical, in-hand) for the bulk of testing to make up for the laggy interface.
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