USE CASE: Interactive Mobile Web Site Testing

Developers: Today more than 5 percent of Web site traffic comes from mobile devices. Chances are you already have a mobile site or are developing one. Mobile developers are constantly working on their mobile sites, and the biggest challenge they face is the difficulty of quickly testing their sites across all the different devices.

CHALLENGE

Mobile developers often plug in mobile user agent strings in Firefox browsers to test their sites. However, the need to search for all the user agent strings on the Web means that this mobile testing method is not scalable. Also, this solution may highlight a problem the site may have with a particular mobile device, but it does not diagnose it.

MITE provides an easy-to-use, quick mobile testing solution for developers. It gives them access to over 1,600 device profiles through 11,000 user agent strings – all on the desktop. With MITE, developers can quickly test and validate their mobile sites across different devices. And MITE not only highlights issues, it also diagnoses them.

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MITE                                         or Firefox Plug-in for mobile Instantly access over 1,600 device profiles and 11,000 user agent strings on your desktop. Testing becomes quick and scalable because you do not need to search for user agent strings on the Web. There is no single repository of user agent strings for mobile site validation. You need to spend considerable time searching for mobile user agent strings online. MITE lets you access device profiles from your desktop for free. There is no need for device contention, making site validation quick. Firefox is also free. MITE gives you the xHTML source code of the mobile site and highlights syntax warnings in the code. Firefox does not provide the source code of the downloaded mobile site. MITE gives protocol level details such as: URL redirections Bytes downloaded Headers sent and received This detail helps you understand the performance of the site. Firefox does not give protocol details to help you understand site performance. MITE lets you validate each resource on the site. For example, MITE gives details for each image on the site and checks for content-device compatibility. Firefox gives the overall rendering of the site. It does not identify individual resources and highlight incompatible ones. MITE lets you quickly and easily navigate mobile sites on your desktop. You can navigate mobile sites in Firefox.