S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance A Guide for Mobile Engineers and Developers

by Laitinen, Saila

• ISBN13: 9780470056851
• ISBN10: 0470056851
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780470059388
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-27
• Publisher: WILEY
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Summary

S60 is the world leading smartphone platform. It has gained this position due to the huge developer base innovating on top of the S60 platform, the Product Creation Community who can provide expertise in different device program phases and tasks and the user-friendly interface that the platform provides. S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance introduces each of these themes. Quality is a diverse concept and it can mean different things in different products. Developing a high quality S60 device is extremely rewarding, although it has some challenges. This book tries to guide device manufacturers by providing knowledge on why these challenges exist and how the device program can tackle them. Readers will be provided with a comprehensive understanding on what it takes for companies to implement an S60 based device in a manageable and meaningful way. Key Features: Explanation of the competitive advantages of the S60 Detailed instructions on how to keep the binary compatibility in devices and applications Wide discussion of Quality Assurance and the best tools to use for success Complete quality assurance test procedures, and best practice The first book to market on S60 smartphone creation and QA is an indispensable resource for hardware and software designers, engineers, developers and manufacturers, as well as operators and service providers creating Series 60 and smartphone-specific services. Students of mobile phones will also find this a useful text.

Author Biography

Saila Laitinen, an engineer, grew up and went to school in Oulu from where she moved to the capital area of Finland in 1995. She is married and has two children. She graduated from Oulu University, from where she gained an M.Sc. in computer engineering.
She joined Nokia in 1995 and has worked in a variety of positions and organizations within the company since then. She started in Nokia Networks and worked as a software engineer for three years. This gave her a solid base including an overall understanding of software and development challenges as well as network technologies. During those three years she also worked as a project manager on two software projects. This provided her with fi rst-hand understanding and know-how of how challenging it is to run a project both to budget and to a given schedule.
After Networks Saila joined the Nokia Ventures Organisation to lead testing activities in one venture. Then she gained international experience and worked in Nokia Hungary as an expatriate. In Hungary her responsibility was to manage the overall testing activities of Nokia’s very fi rst presence server-product. After Hungary she moved back to Finland and joined the S60 product line, where she led the testing, triage and technical consultancy teams. These teams worked on a daily basis in response to S60 customer products and provided them with platform expertise in different technologies and activities. Lastly Saila joined Forum Nokia where she currently leads the global consultancy function to serve the biggest developer community innovating on top of Nokia platforms.
Working in all these organizations and both in Finland and abroad has given her very clear insight into mobile technologies and cultural differences. Several years experience working with S60 customer programs has given her the fi rst hand knowledge needed to write this book.
In addition to this book she has publications in different testing and quality assurance related conference proceedings.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface

Introduction to S60

The Competitive Advantage of the S60 Platform

S60 Architecture

Summary

Selecting the Baseline

Manny Lehman's Law

What is so Challenging about Selecting the Best Baseline?

How should the Baseline be Selected?

Summary

Release Management

The Build Cycle

Required Testing Activities

Summary

Binary Compatibility

API Categorization

Maintaining Compatibility

Binary Compatibility Scenario

Binary Compatibility Verifi cation

Possible Future Tools

Summary

Certifi cates and Standards

Technology Certificates

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

Cellular Standards and Operators

Summary

What Quality Means

Quality Culture

Quality Standards

Quality in a Product

Quality in the S60 Platform and S60-based Phones

Summary

Stumbling Blocks

Stumbling Blocks General to All Projects

Stumbling Blocks Specifi c to a Software Program

Ways to Avoid Stumbling Blocks in a Software Program

Stumbling Blocks Specifi c to a S60-based Phone Program

Provider Components

Summary

Platform Testing versus Platform-based Phone Testing

The S60 Testing Process

Summary

Testing as a Tool

Testing in Different Processes

Testing Techniques

Testing Phases

What then?

Summary

The Testing Environment

Module Testing

Integration Testing in the Small

Functional Testing

Performance Testing

Interoperability Testing

Miscellaneous Testing Activities

Summary

Defect Analysis

Focused Testing

Defect Analysis and Reporting

Summary

Integration and Build Environment

Software Confi guration Management

Changing the Code

Build Environment

S60 Integration

Summary

Examples of S60 Devices

Glossary

References

Binary Compatibility

Certifi cates and Standards

What Quality Means

Stumbling Blocks

Platform Testing versus Platform-based Phone Testing

Testing as a Tool

Defect Analysis

Further Reading

Index

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