Siebel Open UI Mobile Simulation

If you are planning to implement Open UI mobile, you probably might be wondering how to unit test mobile application in your local machine. Well, if you open mobile client in a desktop browser, it will show you the application in normal mode not in mobile mode. 

If you had followed the instructions in bookshelf, you probably might have set the parameter  SupportedMobileBrowser ="Tablet:iPad,Android-Chrome-GT-P7510,Android-Chrome-Nexus,Android-Chrome-Micromax P500(Funbook),webOS,MSIE-Windows NT-Touch,MSIE-Windows NT-ARM|Phone:iPhone,iPod,Android-Chrome-Mobile,MSIE-Windows Phone,BB10-Mobile"

This means that your application supports these tablet browsers Pad,Android-Chrome-GT-P7510,Android-Chrome-Nexus,Android-Chrome-Micromax P500(Funbook),webOS,MSIE-Windows NT-Touch,MSIE-Windows NT-ARM and these phone browsers iPhone,iPod,Android-Chrome-Mobile,MSIE-Windows Phone,BB10-Mobile.


So, to test the mobile application, you need to simulate these browsers. Let me give you an example to simulate this for iPhone.

Open your safari browser, check if the developer menu is available or not. 

If you don't see this, go to Edit --> Preferences,

In advanced, check Show Develop menu in menu bar

Now in Develop menu, select the user agent. 

Now the browser behaves like iPhone or iPad browsers. By doing this, you can set the browser mode and unit test in local machine. This is quite useful for developers to test while developing mobile applications.

Open your dedicated client with safari (/b argument in client) and do above setting to test mobile applications. Hope this helps!!