USE CASE: Prerelease Site Validation

Mobile is the natural extension of the PC. More and more companies are developing Web sites designed to be accessed from mobile devices. Product and marketing managers responsible for them must continually validate these sites before they are released to customers. Before a site goes live, product and marketing managers must certify it by quickly validating it on popular devices.

CHALLENGE

Buying devices or borrowing them from co-workers to test is an extremely manual and time-consuming endeavor and does not provide thorough results. Additionally, the cost of buying devices and maintaining carrier accounts quickly adds up.

MITE lets product and marketing managers quickly validate their mobile sites on any device from their desktops. They can choose the relevant devices from a list of over 1,600 device profiles. With MITE they can not only download the homepage of the mobile site, they can also interact with it and easily navigate to different pages. Browsing mobile sites on the desktop saves a lot of time. And MITE also gives URLs of broken links or missing images. Warnings and issues that are found in MITE can be saved and shared with developers for quick fixes.

THE BEST SOLUTION

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MITE                                         or Manual Validation MITE gives access to over 1600 device profiles on your desktop. You don’t need to borrow devices or even buy them. Product and Marketing Managers often borrow devices from friends and colleagues or buy them to validate their mobile sites. MITE can download any mobile site and help validate the content on the site. MITE checks content-device compatibility for images, CSS, etc. With real devices you can get a pixel-perfect representation of the mobile site, but no visibility into device-content compatibility. Navigating and browsing mobile sites on the desktop saves considerable time. MITE gives the URLs of missing images and broken links. Browsing mobile sites on devices is cumbersome and slow. Product managers have limited reports on images that are missing or links that are broken. MITE gives performance metrics, helping product managers understand how users will experience a site. Metrics include: Time to download Number of bytes downloaded Redirections Manual validation on devices does not give product managers performance metrics. With MITE, product managers can save the bugs they find and easily share them with developers to fix issues. This expedites the entire validation process and saves time to market. Bugs and issues found during validation on real devices cannot be easily shared and replicated.