Web Developer / Technical Lead - Lindsay McLennan

December 17, 2010

Mobile testing resources

Here are a few mobile testing resources I have compiled, for mobile development. Maybe others will find this list useful. This is a work in progress, so suggestions are always welcome.

Testing on real devices

• Purchase devices
  • Use Wi-Fi
  • Use pre-paid SIMs
• Guerilla testing at stores
• Share devices
  • Mobile Monday user group
  • U-M Mobile Web Development email group

In-browser/editor simulators and plug-ins

• Opera’s “small screen view”
• Firefox Web Developer Toolbar’s “small screen view”
• Firefox User Agent Switcher
• Firefox Modify Headers
• Firefox XHTML-MP Extension
• Firefox WML Browser
• User-Agent Switcher for Chrome
• Dreamweaver: Adobe Device Central
  File : Preview in Browser : Device Central

Validators

• W3C mobileOK Checker
• ready.mobi
• Gomez Mobile Website Readiness Test

Emulators

• Opera Mini Simulator
• dotMobi emulator
  Choose between Sony K750 and Nokia N70.
• Nokia Browser Simulator
• BlackBerry Simulators
• iPhoney
• iBBDemo – Blackbaud iPhone Browser Simulator
• TestiPhone.com - iPhone Simulator
  Runs Flash, so not accurate.
• iPad Peek
  Runs Flash, so not accurate.
• Android Emulator
• Palm Pre Emulator
• Windows Mobile 6.1.4 Emulator Images
• WinWAP Smartphone Browser Emulator
• MicroEmulator

Remote Labs

• DeviceAnywhere
  Monthly subscription + hourly fees.
• Perfecto Mobile
  Hourly fees.
• Remote Device Access (free for Symbian and Maemo devices)
• Samsung Lab.Dev
  Free. Includes some Windows Mobile devices.

Desktop Apps

• MITE
  Free. 1,800 devices and 11,000 device profiles.
• Fiddler Web Debugging Proxy

Transcoders

• Google Transcoder:
• Skweezer

Web-based services

• What’s My User-Agent?
• What Is My IP Address?

Posted by levi at 10:38 PM