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Writing Code for Mobile device is easier with ASP.NET
Mobile Controls as they provides ease of developing solution for wireless
application in a similar manner as web application. But still testing the
application across different type of devices is very
important.Here are a few problems
usually faced while testing the wireless application across different
devices. - Screens of various types: Different Mobile
devices in market with all sort of shapes and sizes and all flashy looks make it
difficult to exactly check the device compatibility of application.
- Keyboard versus stylus use: As we are talking
here of Mobile Devices it just not consist of Mobile Phone while a big range of
Mobile Devices is consisting of Personal Digital Assistance (PDA) as well as
other smart devices .As PDA doesn’t consist of Keypad the things been done
by using the touch screen functionality, so many a times designing and testing
the applications for various such environment needed concern for such Keypad and
stylus issues.
- Operating systems for mobile devices (Windows CE /
Palm OS): Different operating system been loaded at different Mobile Client
.The application should be well based at all the operating system and the
uniformity and consistency of the application should not be lost out of running
on different operating system.
- Proper internationalization: Normally we are
not sure where the end user using our application is located, so it should be
make a point with the Test Engineer that application doesn’t loose the
motive out of running or accessing in other languages channel. The application
should be in conformance with Unicode standards. Example it should display
Chinese, Japanese and other characters properly.
- File formats: Mobile is just not specific to
WML or CHTML, while nowadays it supports a lot more scripting language like
XHTML and image formats like gif, jpeg other then wbmp and also j2me
applications. So while testing the application we should make it a point to find
out the support as per the device specification for all such file
formats.
- File size: Different Mobile Devices comes up
with different memory sizes and also their download capability varies according
to that. We should make a point in our application that the downloadable image
or game or any other thing should tune up with the Memory capabilities of
respective device.
- Line and word-wrapping Features: Many a times
using Label and Text Control we missed to take in account of screen size and
display properties, although Pagination is a solution for this still we should
take care of display specific issues in our application.
- Security issues: Mobile is just not a way of
information sharing while e-commerce has a gateway to Mobile Phones. We have to
look for the security issues when we are going to build transaction sites and
other such applications. It should have proper planned session and cookie
support as well WTLS and other security layer support for handling such
transactions.
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