Patent ID: 9189378
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for testing mobile device applications via a device agent resident on a mobile device, comprising the steps of: retrieving, via a device agent, mobile device information representative of a particular mobile device, wherein the mobile device information includes an object inventory of a plurality of platform-specific objects associated with a mobile software application operating on the particular mobile device and each of the plurality of platform-specific objects corresponds to at least one application function; transmitting the mobile device information from the device agent to a management computer system for conversion to platform-agnostic device information for utilization in connection with automatic testing of the mobile software application; receiving, from an automation host, a platform-specific functional application testing command at the device agent for deployment on the particular mobile device for testing of the mobile software application, wherein the platform-specific functional application testing command is: executing the platform-specific functional application testing command via the device agent on the particular mobile device.