Have you ever watched someone use a smartphone and wonder how what looks like random behavior does not break a mobile app? One tool that helps Windows Mobile app developers is a free tool from Microsoft that stress tests apps by simulating random user behavior...

Hopper for Windows Mobile 6.5 Released!

The tools full name is: Microsoft Hopper Test Tool for Windows Mobile. And, as you can see from title of the Microsoft Windows Mobile Blog entry above, it has been updated to work with the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 release. Applications submitted to Microsoft's upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile must complete and pass two hours of Hopper induced stress testing.

You can find and download Hopper from the Microsoft Download Center...

Microsoft Hopper Test Tool for Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1, and 6.5

Hopper's official description starts with these sentences:

Hopper is a software test tool that simulates random user input on mobile devices providing a sometimes meaningful mean time to failure (MTTF) number. It is designed to find bugs and is not intended to run scenario tests or do "specific user things" - it is completely random. Hopper stresses the entire device and will execute anything accessible through the UI many, many times.