Application Stores

Uncorking the Bottleneck in Application Certification

Perfecto Mobile's automated testing and service monitoring solution for application stores provides a powerful set of tools that accelerates your time to publication. By supporting collaboration with developers and automating the testing process, the MobileCloud™ solution streamlines the certification process, improves application quality and reduces the burden on application testers. 

Solution highlights: 

• Reduce time to publication by as much as 75% via automated testing
• Simplify the certification process and attract more developers
• Deliver the highest levels of application quality and user experience
• Ensure app store availability and download performance via ongoing monitoring

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The Challenge: Accelerating Time to Publication while Maintaining Quality

With thousands of application submissions every day, limited testing resources and the lack of an effective filtering mechanism, application stores suffer from very long publication times (typically 14 weeks). The lack of an efficient certification process hampers their ability to bring attractive applications to market in a timely manner. Moreover, since application stores do not have the resources to test every submission, they incur an increased risk of releasing poor quality applications to their customers.
Application stores require a testing and monitoring solution that will enable them to accelerate time to publication without compromising quality. With large operators and mass merchants opening app stores, this market is becoming increasingly competitive. Stores that make the lives of their developers easier will inevitably attract the best applications, enhance their reputation and capture market share.
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Using MobileCloud to Accelerate Testing and Improve Quality

The MobileCloud solution pushes the certification process back to developers, giving them easy-to-use tools for pre-certification testing prior to submission. Developers have remote access to pre-defined handsets and can perform a specified set of tests in the application store's testing environment. In addition, automated testing eliminates bad submissions up front, further saving time and reducing the number of rejects.
Comprising  the MobileCloud-Interactive, MobileCloud-Automation and MobileCloud- Monitoring services, this solution enables application stores to streamline the testing process:

• Pre-certification – Using our Test Flow feature, developers can select a handset and execute a series of tests as specified by the app store provider. 
• Detailed reporting – Developers submit their applications with the multi-media Test Flow report confirming execution of the pre-certification testing.
• Certification – Based on the Test Flow report, the app store provider executes a series of automated tests to validate the application. MobileCloud utilizes patented keyword-based ScriptOnce™ technology that automates complicated test cases and instantly ports them to any number of devices. If the application is certified, it is published by the store. If not, it is returned to the developer with a report explaining the rejection.
• Monitoring – MobileCloud monitors the app store from different handsets and locations to be sure it is always accessible to users, working properly and that apps can be downloaded

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Benefits at a Glance

• Fastest Time to Publication – Pre-certification and automated testing drastically reduce queues and rejects, resulting in huge time savings (up to 75%). Thus, premium applications are available in the store as soon as a new handset is launched
• Increased quality and reduced risk – Automated testing and monitoring means you can test on many handsets, ensuring the highest levels of quality and user experience
• Gain a competitive advantage – Simplifying the certification process will attract more developers to your store, enhance your reputation and reduce operational costs
• Cost-effective - Automation lets you perform more tests on more handsets, locations and networks in less time and with less effort from your testing team, and less cost 
• Flexibility - Handsets can be added or replaced within a matter of hours with only a simple software update, enabling app stores to quickly respond to market trends 

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• Enterprise solution
• Mobile operators solution
• System integrators solution
• Test houses solution