Reasons, Circumstances and Innovative Trends in Mobile Environments

Abstract

In this paper are presented the reasons why the sale of mobile devices has greatly increased in the last period. It is presented the evolution of mobile devices sales in the last 20 years. The main types of applications used today and how it will evolve in the near future. Development and using trends in mobile computing are presented. Key aspects of quality assurance in mobile application development projects are presented. Factors that influence the management process of a project are highlighted. A comprehensive analysis of the positive or negative impact that these factors exerts on the quality of the project is performed. Tools and methods used in the quality assurance process for mobile applications development are presented. The importance of quality assurance testing process is underlined.Keywords: Mobile Applications, Trends, Mobile Environment, Development, Quality Assurance, Innovative(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)1 IntroductionMobile environment represented by mobile devices and mobile applications run on these devices has seen a big increase in recent years. According to [1] smart mobile device application development requires extra attention from the developers. Important are issues that have led to this increase, the current circumstances of using the mobile applications and future trends of the use and development of mobile applications. The paper is structured as:Section The reasons for the accelerated growth of mobile devices usage shows the assumptions that have contributed to the explosive growth of mobile devices production. It also provides the evolution of mobile devices sales in the last 20 years for major manufacturers.In section Current circumstances in internationally use of mobile applications are presented usage patterns of mobile applications currently. What types of applications are most used and the number of applications from online stores for these devices.In section Development and usage trends of mobile applications the future trends of usage and mobile application development according to user requirements and within the restrictions imposed by mobile devices are presented.Section Quality assurance tools in mobile application development projects present the quality management of the development process in the mobile environment. It also presented the factors which influence the quality of management in a mobile application development projects.The paper ends with the section Conclusions.2 The Reasons for the Accelerated Growth of Mobile Devices UsageIn 1973 the first mobile phone was launched by Motorola, Motorola DynaTAC model.Their widespread use began in the '90s when they became available to the public. Production of mobile devices has had an explosive growth and completed a long way in only a few years. In [2] the evolution of mobile phone sales in the period 1992-2012 is presented. 20 years in the production of mobile phones due to competition and widespread use has increased not found in other electrical devices or technical productions.In Table 1 for each year is highlighted the producer who was the leader of mobile device sales for that year.Thus the period 1993-1997 was dominated by Motorola, although the actual number of terminals sold is not known. After 1997 followed the Nokia during which dominated the mobile phone market for 14 years, there are years in which the number of Nokia sold was two times the number of terminals sold by next producer. In 2007, the explosive growth in sales of Nokia has started to fall. This decrease came with the appearance on the market of mobile devices and the emergence of manufacturer Apple smartphones. This decrease began in 2007 continued until 2012 when Nokia lost leader position in the mobile market in favor of Samsung producer. These things are shown graphically in Figure 1.In graph of Figure 1 is observed the dominance of the Nokia manufacturer on mobile devices market. …