Material about Regression Testing

1. Use Case: Regression Testing
of Mobile Content for QA
Use Cases for Keynote MITE
Use Case: Regression strings in the MITE desktop
Testing of Mobile Content for environment. Consistent testing is
QA achievable across any device
without the worry of device
To stay fresh all Web sites, available.
including those on the mobile Web,
drive a process of continual change. MITE gives QA engineers detailed
The need for upgrades, fixes, and test results that not only help to
new versions at times seems to be quickly access mobile content, but
the only constant. As a result, QA also to validate it. When MITE runs
engineers need to continually test a test, the results will include:
and validate new release candidates
before they can go live. The QA
• Source code - XHTML code of the
team has to perform regression
mobile site with any and all
testing of mobile content across
syntax errors and warnings
different devices in extremely short
time frames to ensure that your • Access Time – the time to
customers remain happy and download each page of the mobile
satisfied. site
• Size – the total size or weight of
One popular approach is to provide
each mobile page downloaded in
QA teams with real devices for
bytes
manual testing. But real devices are
expensive and typically only • Total Elapsed Time – The time to
available from either operators in download each page along with
small private device labs or, by the required resources needed to
renting time on publicly available display it
devices. Regardless of the
• Headers – the request and
approach, manual testing can get
response headers sent and
very expensive. Additionally,
received by the device
manual testing suffers from quality
due to variation in test process and • Redirection – the list of URL
the lack of test consistency across redirections taken with each page
the different devices. Although the
• Content-Device compatibility –
need for manual testing may never
details on the compatibility of
be eliminated completely, it is
each page object with the
possible to augment manual testing
device’s capabilities
with automated regression testing
across as many mobile devices as
possible.
With Keynote MITE, QA teams can
access any of the 1,600 device
profiles and 11,000 user agent

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About Keynote Because MITE has a script recording • Search in Page – to search a
function QA teams can fully page for particular content
Keynote Systems (NASDAQ automate testing tasks for rapid
"KEYN") is the global test and • Wait SMS – to wait until an SMS
repetition. Record different test
measurement company is received to process it
cases and execute them across any
for mobile communications device profile saving considerable MITE will not only improve the
and online business re-testing time. The results can quality of regression testing for
performance. then be saved as a Project and mobile, but will also save
As an independent and trusted shared with different groups to considerable time and money. In
third-party, Keynote provides highlight and quickly solve bugs. short, more testing is possible, in
IT and marketing executives less time, at a lower cost. The
with an unbiased view All MITE scripts are recorded as
added productivity will allow
into their Internet services Visual Basic (VB) script. If QA
validation of mobile content on
from around the world. For Engineers are familiar with VB
more devices than ever before
over a decade, we have been scripting, they can edit test scripts
resulting in greater confidence in
providing measurement data to add additional conditional logic
end user satisfaction.
and testing capabilities that and validation checks.
allow companies to understand Download your copy of Keynote
MITE comes with many popular
and improve their customer's MITE today at: mite.keynote.com.
mobile functions that are often used
online and mobile experience. in testing mobile applications. Click to learn about other
Keynote Systems, Inc. Testing becomes even more MITE Use Cases
777 Mariners Island Blvd. thorough by adding conditional
checks into MITE scripts. These Overview and Interactive Site
San Mateo, CA 94404
functions include: Testing
www.keynote.com • Click on Link – to follows link Prerelease Mobile Site Validation
• Click on Name – to follow the Application Support
link using the name of the link Carrier Deck Placement Verification
Common Short Code Auditing
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