Utilization of emulators and simulators in mobile testing

Mobile OS popularity in the world

Mobile OS popularity in the USA

Emulators are used for

• developing mobile websites and applications

• rapid smoke-tests• testing in parallel with physical

devices

Emulation of devices and browsers

• Device emulators can be found in vendor’s SDK

• Browser emulators are distributed by their developers

• Exception – Java apps emulation (jme & jse)

Available device emulators

Symbian SDK http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Tools_and_downloads/Other/

iOS https://developer.apple.com/xcode/index.php

Android http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

BlackBerry http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/simulators.jsp

Windows Phone 7 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27570

Java app emulator http://www.microemu.org/

Mobile browsers emulators

Opera Mini http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mini/

Opera Mobile http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mobile/

Standard device browsers are emulated together with the devices

Nokia (Symbian) emulatorsSymbian Belle 1.0, Symbian 3 1.0, Nokia N97Symbian 5th Edition, Symbian 3rd Edition, FP2 v 1.1.S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1S60 3rd EditionS60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2 (formerly 2.2)S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (formerly 2.1)S60 2nd Edition (formerly 2.0)S60 1st Edition, Feature Pack 1 (formerly 1.2)S60 1st Edition (formerly 0.9)

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Tools_and_downloads/Other/

Old Series 40 SDKs(for these emulators prerequisite is required - Java 6 Update 27 or earlier)

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Develop/Java/Tools/Series_40_platform_SDKs/

iOS emulators

The most convenient ones: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/index.php

To use them one must have OS X computer or a virtual machine with Mac OS to install XCode environment

Android emulators

Less convenient than BlackBerry, and the necessary devices are not always found here:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Device vendors may have additional add-ons for these emulators, or even their own emulators for more reliable

emulation

BlackBerry emulators

The most easy-to-use emulators http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/simulators.jsp

To work with Internet you’ll need BlackBerry® Email and MDS Services Simulator Package

http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/

Also require Java prerequisite

Windows Phone emulators

Standard emulator: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27570

To install applications you’ll need Application Deployment

Be careful – when restarted, everything returns to default settings.

Specific devices and OS – remote access to devices

S60 3rd Edition - Symbian Belle – the easiest way to test via Nokia Remote Device Access

http://apu.ndhub.net/

Samsung Android - Remote Test Lab http://rtl.innovator.samsungmobile.com

Samsung Bada - Remote Test Lab http://rtl.innovator.samsungmobile.com

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