This is a guest post by Eran Kinsbruner. He is the Director of Product Marketing at Perfecto Mobile. He has specialized in software quality management for the last 12 years, leading various projects around mobile functional, automation and certification testing. Perfecto Mobile is a global leading provider of cloud-based testing, automation and monitoring solutions for mobile applications and websites, utilizing a wide selection of REAL mobile devices accessible via the web. Its MobileCloud™ platform gives users access to hundreds and thousands of real devices on various platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Symbian etc.) 

HP recently announced its official mobile test automation solution – UFT Mobile – jointly developed by HP and Perfecto Mobile. This solution allows users to naturally extend their existing HP Functional Testing and Application Lifecycle Management environment to mobile applications.

To address key challenges in testing mobile applications across multiple devices in a highly fragmented market, UFT Mobile leverages two specially designed capabilities with respect to object recognition and analysis. These features are known as Hybrid Object Support and Hybrid Test Automation (for closed operating systems like iOS).

Hybrid Object Support in HP UFT Mobile

UFT Mobile utilizes a hybrid approach to object recognition, combining the use of visual object analysis and object level analysis. Such an approach enables users to choose the most appropriate object recognition technique for a given script, based on the application’s complexity and various testing scenarios, without compromising quality.