Utilization of emulators and

simulators in mobile testing

Mobile OS popularity in the world

Mobile OS popularity in the USA

Emulators are used for

developing mobile
websites and applications
rapid smoke-tests
testing in parallel with
physical devices

Emulation of devices and

browsers
Device emulators
can be found in
vendors SDK
Browser emulators
are distributed by
their developers
Exception Java
apps emulation
(jme & jse)

Available device emulators

Symbian SDK

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Tools_an
d_downloads/Other/

iOS

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/index.php

Android

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

BlackBerry

http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/simula
tors.jsp

Windows
Phone 7
Java app
emulator

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.asp
x?displaylang=en&id=27570
http://www.microemu.org/

Mobile browsers emulators

Opera Mini

http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mini/

Opera Mobile

http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mobile/

Standard device browsers are

emulated together with the devices

Nokia (Symbian) emulators

Symbian Belle 1.0, Symbian 3 1.0,
Nokia N97
Symbian 5th Edition, Symbian 3rd
Edition, FP2 v 1.1.
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
S60 3rd Edition
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2
(formerly 2.2)
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1
(formerly 2.1)
S60 2nd Edition (formerly 2.0)
S60 1st Edition, Feature Pack 1
(formerly 1.2)
S60 1st Edition (formerly 0.9)
Old Series 40 SDKs
(for these emulators prerequisite is
required - Java 6 Update 27 or earlier)

http://www.developer.nokia.
com/Resources/Tools_and_dow
nloads/Other/

http://www.developer.nokia.
com/Develop/Java/Tools/Seri
es_40_platform_SDKs/

iOS emulators
The most convenient ones:

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/inde
x.php

To use them one must have OS X computer

or a virtual machine with Mac OS to install
XCode environment

Android emulators
Less convenient than
BlackBerry, and the
necessary devices are not
always found here:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index
.html

Device vendors may have additional add-ons for

these emulators, or even their own emulators for
more reliable emulation

BlackBerry emulators
The most easy-to-use
emulators
To work with Internet youll
need BlackBerry Email
and MDS Services Simulator
Package

http://us.blackberry.com/developers/res
ources/simulators.jsp

http://us.blackberry.com/developers/res
ources/

Also require Java prerequisite

Windows Phone emulators

Standard emulator:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en
/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=2757
0

To install applications youll need Application

Deployment
Be careful when restarted, everything
returns to default settings.

Specific devices and OS remote

access to devices
S60 3rd Edition - Symbian
Belle the easiest way to test
via Nokia Remote Device
Access
Samsung Android - Remote
Test Lab

Samsung Bada - Remote Test

Lab

http://apu.ndhub.net/

http://rtl.innovator.samsungmobile.c
om

http://rtl.innovator.samsungmobile.c
om

Thanks!
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