Testing is one of the most essential segments of the application development process. Mobile application testing is the process to pledge the quality of mobile phones. As mobile handsets squeeze new technologies and more potentialities and as customer console with using mobile products persists to develop, the mobile applications marketplace should continue to be a beneficial one. To help realize this potential, mobile application developers, handset manufacturers and service providers must understand the need to necessitate testing and quality assurance values across the industry. This movement toward standardized mobile application testing requirements has already begun to unfold. By doing so, there is much to gain for all. Mobile applications have never been popular in earlier days, but now its popularity is booming day by day. Mobile application developers are facing a crowd of challenges due to the increasing difficulty of testing across different handsets, carriers, languages and locations.

Mobiquest's Mobile Test Centre offers mobile application and testing services to simplify the testing needs of applications developers, service providers and handset manufacturers. To provide mobile application testing services Mobiquest launched Mobile Test Centre in Singapore on 17^th June 2009, first in ASIA Pacific Region.

As the mobile devices become so ubiquitous, the requirement for reliable mobile testing services has become even more compelling.

Mobile Test Centre provides following services

A) Mobile Application QA and Testing

1. Development of test strategies, test plans, and test cases
2. Architecting test automation frameworks and test harnesses
3. Programming of test harnesses and test scripts
4. Test execution
5. Bug reporting
6. Test harnesses and test suites maintenance
7. Test engineers support
8. Flexibility –as your exclusive testing arm or as part of internal QA team
9. On time delivery with better budget control

B) Field Testing

1. Interoperability and compatibility testing
2. On- and Off-Site Carrier testing

C) Pre-certification testing

1. Pre-certification testing for 'Symbian Signed', 'Java Verified' and 'Mobile2Market' programs

Effective testing methodology for mobile applications:

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