Creating Success For Your Android Device (a.k.a lessons learned from the iPhone 4)

The avalanche of customer issues following the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone device illustrates a lesson that is not only eternally true for any consumer electronics device, but especially impactful for a highly subsidized mobile phone. The lesson is simple – test your device and software thoroughly or pay a high price. A high price in RMA costs, brand value, customer switching costs, emergency engineering expense as well as a surge in costs for customer relationship management.  

Today, we at Wind River are taking the wraps off a brand-new solution called Wind River FAST (Framework for Automated Software Test) for Android to determine the functional readiness, stability, performance and compliance of devices running the Android stack. We have been closely working with a number of operators, device manufacturers and application processor providers over the last nine months to tailor-make the unique capabilities of this automated test solution to meet their requirements to rapidly test an Android device.  Primarily focused at Smartphones and other mobile Android platforms, FAST for Android contains thousands of Wind River authored test cases to thoroughly test your Android device from the hardware abstraction layer, lower layer drivers and protocols such as Bluetooth, telephony and Wi-Fi, through to middleware layers and finally to the UI. It also includes tens of thousands of useful open source test suites such as LTP and Iozone, as well as the latest version of the Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS). In effect, FAST is not just an automated test tool, it is also a full mobile device test plan and set of benchmark test results to help QA departments.

FAST for Android is available for evaluation right now, so if you are planning to deliver a high-quality Android device to meet your customer’s performance and reliability expectations and keep post-launch costs low, check us out and evaluate the new Wind River FAST software solution.