Orange Partner and Argogroup launch online mobile developer testing

^{Shortening 6 week, cutting GBP 500} Orange Partner and Argogroup launch online mobile developer testing

25 Oct 2004 at 18:57 GMT Timo Poropudas

Orange Partner and Argogroup, a provider of user experience optimization for mobile data services, have launched the world’s first real-time online testing programmed for mobile application developers. Available to its worldwide developer network immediately, Orange is using Monitor Master, Argogroup’s award-winning testing technology, to radically speed up software certification times and halt mounting costs to developers. These new services will cover the testing and verification of new J2ME, WAP, MMS, ring tones and wallpaper applications ensuring faster time to market of cutting edge mobile applications for Orange’s 52 million subscribers world-wide. Manual testing for certification of new applications is a slow process and can take up to six weeks for new Java applications to be approved or declined. With each submission costing in the region of GBP 500, the financial overhead to developers seeking operators’ official recognition can be very prohibitive. According to a research note released by Gartner earlier this year, testing mobile applications is becoming more complex because there is a lot to test. The mobile architectures need to be complex to support the large number of handsets that are on the market and this drives the need for even "portable" languages like Java or protocols like WAP to be tested on each device type. The new interactive, web-based solution will now allow registered developers to visit the Orange Group website, upload their software and select which Orange device(s) they would like their application tested against. As opposed to the six weeks manual response time, they will now receive the results immediately.