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Improvement suggestions for Symbian Signed site

widianuser | 29 January, 2007 13:45

After working some time with Symbian application signing, I have small suggestions how to make developer's life a little bit easier:

Publish test criteria in structured format
Now the test criteria can be downloaded as a pdf-file only. Why not publish the test criteria also in some structured format, such as xml? That would let the developers to import the current test criteria to their in-house test system, thus removing the need to copy-paste the test cases from pdf-document to test systems.

Allow users to save application templates to website
Submitting an application requires lots of information to be typed in. Some personal and company information comes from user's profile, but application data must be written every time from scratch. Especially filling the declarative statement every time is frustrating - even copying text from older submissions seems to be somehow denied, text is blurred and cannot be copied. What I'd like to see is a template that I fill once and later when I submit the same (customer branded) application again, I can just select the template and get declarative statement automatically filled.

Where is the test house?
Now Symbian signed website has three test houses to choose from, but I hope that someday there will be more. Please indicate clearly where the test house is, because selecting a test house from a different continent an slow down the process, as described in this blog entry's comment.