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Mobile Application Testing and Standards

Mobile Application Testing and Standards. C00-20070723 TRLabs MADLab. Presentation Outline. TRLabs Overview NEWT Overview MADLab Overview Group Discussion – Mobile Application Testing and Standards. TRLabs Overview. Edmonton. Saskatoon. Regina. Winnipeg. Calgary.

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Mobile Application Testing and Standards

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  1. Mobile Application Testing and Standards C00-20070723 TRLabs MADLab

  2. Presentation Outline • TRLabs Overview • NEWT Overview • MADLab Overview • Group Discussion – Mobile Application Testing and Standards

  3. TRLabs Overview

  4. Edmonton Saskatoon Regina Winnipeg Calgary Fast-Tracking Innovation • Not-for-profit, open consortium • Tri-partite: Industry, Academia, Government • Applied research in ICT, prototype development and testing and certification • Vehicle for economic development

  5. Industry Dominated Manufacturers 9 Service Providers 4 ICT Users 3 SMEs 57 Universities 5 Institutes 6 Governments 4 Professional Firms 3 Total 91

  6. Connected Media • Research themes in this focus area include: • Ubiquitous cognitive networks • Social networking • Session based connectivity • Presence • Location based services • Personalized mobile web-based services

  7. Smart Home / Community • Research themes in the Broadband (BB) Home focus area include: • Home automation and security • Content technologies • Trans-coding • DRM • Personalized infotainment • Broadband connectivity • Collaboration • Information spaces • Distributed computing/virtualization

  8. Health Applications • Research themes in the eHealth focus area include: • Informatics • Electronic Medical Records • Medical Imaging • Visualization and Modeling • Health Management • Intelligent Systems (collaboration, correlation, dissemination) • eHealth Services • Systems Biology • Clinical Networks • Storage/computation/connnectivity/collaboration • Autonomous networks/sensor networks

  9. Emerging Technologies • The purpose of the Emerging Technologies Focus Area is to: • complete rapid scans that identify emerging/blue-sky technologies • Identify technologies closely aligned with TRLabs Focus Areas • The Futurea • Machines will out number and out compute people (Kurzweil – “The singularity is near”) • Digitization of everything at an exponential rate; everything is connected and mobile • Smaller, cheaper, more integrated

  10. NEWT (Network for Emerging Wireless Technologies) Overview

  11. TRLabs - NEWT TRLabs NEWT Pre-competitive Research Pre-commercialization Support University Industry Technology Commercialization Continuum Technology Commercialization is a major issue for industry & government. TRLabs and NEWT fill complementary roles

  12. What Do We Do? We provide hardware and softwaredevelopment and testing support … To developers of wireless products and services … With our test networks, lab facilities,technical staff and industry contacts.

  13. Services Develop- applications and products Grow- new companies Enhance- existing companies Attract– outside companies Showcase- products and applications Demonstrate– tools and devices Foster- partnerships and networking Promote- education and training

  14. Differentiation • Open to industry • Managed by neutral consortium • Vendor agnostic • Lab and live-air test networks • Multiple wireless protocols • Staff for technology • Intellectual property agnostic • Network for business … an objective partner to exploit wireless technology

  15. 75% 25% Support Staff Software Development Workstations Hardware Development Workstations $10M Data Center Facilities

  16. Founding Members

  17. MAD (Mobile Applications and Devices) Lab Overview

  18. The Need • Validation and certification a bottleneck for introduction of wireless applications and services • No certification lab in Canada • No established standards for applications • SMEs need access to an internationally recognized test and validation center • Onset of technology convergence increases need • NEWT a desirable technology partner • Established international relationships • Non-commercial (objective, unbiased)

  19. Cellular Industry Trends • Onset of new generation of converged devices/networks • Applications become differentiating factor for carriers • Certification - key to timely launch of new devices and applications • 200 devices; 2000 applications per year • Volume will grow with new devices and digital media apps

  20. MADLab Approach • Establish leadership in application testing and standards • Become outsource partner of choice for carriers • Position as focal point for innovative applications from SMEs • Partner with international base station vendors for field and application testing • Establish strategic partners for lab testing

  21. MADLab Capabilities

  22. Project Experience • WPA 802.11 Interoperability Testing • 802.16d Equipment Evaluation • CDMA Terminal Field Testing • Software Application Testing • Remote Video Streaming over 1xRTT • 802.11 security software • Gaming Applications over GPRS

  23. Group Discussion

  24. Discussion Questions 1-3 • What has been the experience of the TSG-C group testing applications? What challenges have you encountered? • What is the current status of standards for testing applications? What additional work needs to be done on standards development? • What would you need to see in a facility that was doing lab and field testing of applications? What sort of lab equipment and field network equipment would be required? Would it be helpful / necessary to have access to multiple test networks (non-commercial), each using equipment from different manufacturers?

  25. Discussion Questions 4-5 • What are the most common problems in bringing an application to market? • Too many devices? • Too difficult to handle different operating systems? • Too many versions of operating systems? • Software or hardware upgrades coming too often, requiring regression testing? • Requirement for access to specialized test equipment? If so, what equipment? • At what levels do applications need to be tested - for example, RF performance, MMS interface, etc?

  26. Discussion Questions 6-7 • What is the limiting factor in bringing applications to market? • Testing takes too long • Devices not capable of handling applications • Network or device bandwidth insufficient • Marketing problems • Not enough developers • Not enough testers • What applications require the most extensive testing? Business applications? Consumer applications?

  27. Discussion Questions 8-10 • What steps could be taken to simplify or streamline application testing? • What role do standards organizations play in application testing? This could include TSG, ISO, CDG, CCF, etc. • Any other application, device, lab or field testing questions that you would be interested in discussing? What are the "hot buttons"?

  28. Thank You • Call • Brian Mackie - (403) 338-6398 • Duane Sniezek – (403) 338-6383 • Write • brian.mackie@newt.trlabs.ca • duane.sniezek@newt.trlabs.ca • Visit • 120, 7777 – 10 Street NE • Calgary, AB • Canada T2E 8X2 • Web • www.newt.trlabs.ca • www.trlabs.ca

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