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Keynote DeviceAnywhere 
Industry Enterprise Software
Software Testing
Quality AssuranceFounded 2003 Headquarters San Mateo, California, USA Area served Worldwide Key people Faraz Syed, President
David J. Marsyla, CTO
Chris Callahan, VP of Sales
Mark Dirsa, Senior Director of Finance
Rachel Obstler, Senior Director of Product Marketing
Leila Modarres, Senior Director of MarketingProducts Device Planner
Test Planner
Test Center Enterprise Interactive
Test Center Enterprise Automation
Test Center Enterprise Monitoring
Test CenterOwner(s) Keynote Systems, Inc., San Mateo, California, USA, (NASDAQ: KEYN) Employees 119 (2011) Website www.deviceanywhere.com
Keynote DeviceAnywhere is a subsidiary of Keynote Systems, Inc. that provides a service for planning, testing and monitoring the functionality, usability, performance and availability of mobile apps and websites[1][2][3].Contents
Mobile App Lifecycle Management
Planning
- Device Planner is a tool aimed at helping developers and businesses decide which devices and platforms to develop on, to reach the largest potential audience for their app.
- Test Planner is a tool which provides companies with a recommended list of devices for testing their apps on, to generate optimal test coverage using the least resources.
Execution
- Test Center Enterprise Automation is a SaaS enterprise software service that automates testing of mobile apps and websites[4]. The product aims to ensure reliable, repeatable and reportable results for any mobile app, on any device, operating system and network. Using the service, engineers can perform unit testing on real devices. Similarly, testers are able to troubleshoot field issues and perform the following kinds of tests: UAT; BAT; Functional Testing; Regression Testing; and Integration Testing.
- Test Center Enterprise Interactive is a cloud-based service designed for manual testing of mobile apps, designed for enterprise users. The service allows enterprises to remotely interact with and control a device’s functions including pressing handset buttons, viewing LCD displays, listening to ringers and tones, playing videos, tapping and swiping touch screens, muting, powering on/off, increasing volume and other functions as if they were holding the physical device in their own hands.
- Test Center is a cloud-based service designed for manual testing of consumer-facing mobile apps.
Analysis
- Test Center Enterprise Monitoring is a SaaS platform targeted at enterprises, which provides monitoring of mobile services to detect potential problems early and ensure quality of service[5]
[6].
Key Partnerships
HP
Keynote DeviceAnywhere provides an integrated solution for HP's Functional Testing (QTP)[7] and HP Quality Center (QC)[8]. The add-in allows developers to run complex test scenarios from QTP/QC in DeviceAnywhere Test Center and DeviceAnywhere Test Automation for Smart Devices and receive the results back into QC/QTP.
IBM
The Keynote DeviceAnywhere and IBM Rational Quality Manager integration allows companies using RQM as their test management system to test their products on real mobile devices[9]. All results (script steps, test pass/fail results) are tracked by RQM and are available through the RQM interface.
History
The company was founded in April 2003 by CEO Faraz Syed and CTO David J. Marsyla, who jointly created the first remote access service for mobile devices. It was backed by Motorola Ventures and France Telecom’s venture subsidiary, Innovacom.
- July 2004: First production release of DeviceAnywhere product
- December 2004: Partnership agreement with Motorola announced
- April 2005: First round of funding completed with Innovacom as lead investor
- November 2005: Expansion to EMEA market announced
- December 2006: Second round of funding completed with Motorola Ventures as lead investor
- February 2007: Office opened in London
- February 2007: DeviceAnywhere awarded Mobile Monday Global Peer Award for Community Favorite
- March 2007: DeviceAnywhere awarded Frost & Sullivan Mobility Award for Best User Experience Management
- March 2007: DeviceAnywhere reaches 1000 customer landmark
- May 2007: DeviceAnywhere announces partnership with Sprint
- April 2008: FierceWireless names DeviceAnywhere as one of its “Fierce 15"
- January 2009: DeviceAnywhere named top mobile banking development tool of 2008
- June 2009: Technology partnership with IBM announced
- July 2009: Facebook named as DeviceAnywhere customer
- August 2009: DeviceAnywhere named to Inc 500 list of fastest-growing private companies
- September 2009: DeviceAnywhere named to Software 500 list of fastest-growing software companies
- September 2009: DeviceAnywhere names new mobile healthcare customers
- October 2009: DeviceAnywhere named 16th fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley
- March 2010: DeviceAnywhere releases first “Mobile Metrics” report of mobile development trends
- September 2010: DeviceAnywhere releases first European “Mobile Metrics” report of mobile development trends
- October 2010: DeviceAnywhere launches Test Automation for Smart Devices to enterprise market
- October 2010: DeviceAnywhere CEO addresses CTIA on challenges of managing remote workforces
- January 2011: DeviceAnywhere launches first package for tablet devices
- February 2011: Alcatel-Lucent announces technology partnership with DeviceAnywhere
- March 2011: Test Automation for Smart Devices wins Mobility Award for enterprise mobile software innovation
- September 2011: DeviceAnywhere Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Global Customer Value Enhancement Award for Mobile Application Lifecycle Management
- October 2011: Keynote Systems Acquires DeviceAnywhere
- October 2011: Keynote DeviceAnywhere Launches Device Planner for Mobile Apps
References
- ^ http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2011/03/31/things-you-wanted-to-know-about-smartphone-development-but-because-you-dont-own-testing-labs-couldnt-ask/
- ^ http://www.cio.com/article/631815/Emerging_Tech_Disaster_Proof_Your_Mobile_App_Before_Rollout
- ^ http://www.fiercewireless.com/nextgenspotlight/story/cross-platform-apps-reflect-new-devices-higher-expectations
- ^ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/100610-deviceanywhere-automated-testing-smartphones.html
- ^ http://www.gomonews.com/deviceanywhere-keeps-postemobile-mobile-services-ticking/
- ^ http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/Mobile-applications-Testing-and-monitoring-using-SaaS-solutions
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_QuickTest_Professional
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Quality_Center
- ^ https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/social-media-marketing/entry/mobile_application_developers_test_in_the_wild_with_deviceanywhere?lang=en
External links
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- Software testing
- Software quality
- Unit testing
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