Mobile Testing-as-a-Service (MTaaS) -- Infrastructures, Issues, Solutions and Needs

With the rapid advance of mobile computing technology and wireless networking, there is a significant increase of mobile subscriptions. This drives a strong demand for development and validation of mobile APPs and SaaS applications on mobile web. This paper is written to offer informative and insightful discussion about mobile testing-as-a-service (MTaaS), including its basic concepts, motivations, distinct features and requirements, test environments, and different approaches. Moreover, it presents a test process in MTaaS and three different approaches. Furthermore, the paper proposes one mobile test cloud infrastructure for mobile TaaS, and discusses the required mobile test frameworks and environments. Finally, the paper addresses existing issues, challenges, and emergent needs.