Abstract
Mobile services will be a steadily growing business area in the near
future. Testing mobile services is important to verify the high quality of the
software. The problem is that traditional manual testing is a very expensive
and time consuming activity.
Automation offers a solution to decrease the costs of testing while at the
same time improving the software quality.
The aim of this study is to determine how well test automation can be applied
to the B3G (Beyond 3G) service testing. The testing needs of B3G services are
discussed during the study. Based on the findings and on the discussions
focusing on B3G service testing needs, the study will try to determine how
well the existing tools support automated testing in a Symbian Series 60
environment. The study will also attempt to figure out if new tools are
necessary for automating B3G service testing.
During this study it was found out that current automated testing tools don’t
fit very well to B3G service testing because B3G services commonly heavily
rely on communication between each other. For this reason, a new method is
necessary to support the testing of B3G services. This thesis presents a
method and a tool extension for automating the testing of multiple interacting
applications in a mobile terminal environment.
Original language | English |
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Qualification | Master Degree |
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Place of Publication | Oulu |
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Publication status | Published - 2006 |
MoE publication type | G2 Master's thesis, polytechnic Master's thesis |
Keywords
- Test automation
- automated testing
- B3G
- mobile services