Remote mobile test system: a mobile phone cloud for application testing

Abstract

It is difficult to enable a mobile application to work as expected on so many mobile phones currently on the market. Most of development teams may not have so many testing phones because of limited budgets, but the applications have to be launched on time under market pressure. In this paper, we present Remote Mobile Test System (RMTS), which is aimed at reducing the cost of buying many mobile phones, improving mobile application testing efficiency and helping ensure mobile application quality and reliability. Users could access a real mobile phone remotely and operate them through a web browser, including uploading, startup, and testing mobile applications by clicking and swiping actions. The mobile phones could be geographically distributed. The operation process could be recorded as automated testing scripts and to be run on other mobile phones to improve testing efficiency. The proposed system is soft-link based that causes lower cost and to deploy a new phone quickly.