How can I Test an Application written for Windows Mobile?

Hello All,

I am currently working with a new version of Windows 5 Mobile for a PDA
device. I have developed a application that accesses files and
calculates information based on the data received. In addition, the
data is animated on screen. I have only tested this application using
an emulator.

In general, I am looking to gain confidence that the application runs
well using the platform?

As the target device is a PDA mobile phone running under Windows I was
wondering if anyone has experience of testing applications under this
environment!

The questions I have:

1. How can I measure the usage of the application resources whilst the
application is running?
2. How can I get a test application to capture and send key inputs to
the application and read of results of operations?
3. Can I automate the testing of this to simulate operation of the
application, test the operation of the mobile device?
4. Can I capture the results of these operations to a file?
5. Is there any software out there that allows me to achieve my aims?
If so, can anyone recommend some test suites.
6. Is there any free software I can use to automate testing in
general...?


Many thanks in advance,

Richard Latter

r_z_aret
Wed Jan 17 14:43:39 CST 2007

I don't have much help, but I haven't seen any other replies. More
below (in line).


On 17 Jan 2007 08:31:29 -0800, "richard_l@latter.demon.co.uk"
<richard_l@latter.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I am currently working with a new version of Windows 5 Mobile for a PDA
>device. I have developed a application that accesses files and
>calculates information based on the data received. In addition, the
>data is animated on screen. I have only tested this application using
>an emulator.
>
>In general, I am looking to gain confidence that the application runs
>well using the platform?
>
>As the target device is a PDA mobile phone running under Windows I was
>wondering if anyone has experience of testing applications under this
>environment!
>
>The questions I have:
>
>1. How can I measure the usage of the application resources whilst the
>application is running?

I believe Entrek makes a suite of tools. I've never tried them, so I
can't say more


>2. How can I get a test application to capture and send key inputs to
>the application and read of results of operations?

If you run under the debugger, you can use breakpoints and/or the
OutputDebugString (at least for C/C++)


>3. Can I automate the testing of this to simulate operation of the
>application, test the operation of the mobile device?
>4. Can I capture the results of these operations to a file?

Some tool(s) may exist, but I wrote my own logging functions.


>5. Is there any software out there that allows me to achieve my aims?
>If so, can anyone recommend some test suites.
>6. Is there any free software I can use to automate testing in
>general...?
>
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Richard Latter

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