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The need to display data on mobile devices continues to grow - especially with the seamless extension of enterprise data onto the small screen. As a result, solutions for shortening the data-to-mobile implementation cycle are on the rise, and so the need for mobile development framework. Enterprises face several challenges in deploying mobile applications, emanating from features such as location independence, contextualization, and personalization.
The purpose of mobile development framework is to utilize a standards-based architecture that leverages existing IT infrastructure and maximizes return on investment to your business. Such a framework is relatively easily deployed, and extends enterprise data to mobile users with high security in a user friendly manner. The purpose of a mobile development framework is somewhat different from actual mobile development tools, which are specifically used to develop mobile applications.
Mobile development framework extends the existing applications such as Customer Resource Management (CRM) to mobile workforces and their devices. These days certain open-source mobile development frameworks are up for the enterprise market with a solution for writing reusable applications to synchronize smart phones with back-end systems.
There are mobile applications written in Java, which run on iPad, Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. The Mobile development framework includes binaries that abstract away each underlying platform, and developers use a single API to access native resources.
Post development there is requirement for mobile software load testing. Performance Test and Load / Stress Test determine the ability of the application to perform while under load. During software load testing the tester attempts to stress or load an aspect of the system to the point of failure, the goal is to determine weak points in the system architecture. The tester identifies peak load conditions at which the program will fail to handle required processing loads within required time spans.
During Performance testing the tester designs test case scenarios to determine if the system meets the stated performance criteria (i.e. A Login request shall be responded to in 1 second or less under a typical daily load of 1000 requests per minute.). In both cases the tester is trying to determine the capacity of the system under a known set of conditions. The same set of tools and testing techniques can be applied for both types of capacity testing - only the goal of the test changes. In order to make software load testing successful certain application load testing tools are deployed. The success of the software load testing depends upon their quality.
Folks at Impetus Technologies expertise in the use of application load testing tools, and even have their own proprietary software load testing tools.
