Find the right recipe for mobile business apps

Consumerization is driving changes in IT. Creating mobile business apps is a top concern for many companies. Developing these applications quickly, while ensuring high quality, is an enormous task for testers and project managers. Half-baked or overloaded attempts at creating mobile business apps will cause users to desert the app -- or worse, the company.

To keep customers sated, developers need to carefully design and test mobile business apps. In the first article of this three-part handbook, software tester Amy Reichert advises readers on how to convert Web applications into mobile apps. Next, consultants Matt Heusser and Justin Rohrman discuss how to create and test responsive design. And to close, reporter Joel Shore talks about HP’s recent upgrades to tools that monitor mobile apps and development.