- Get familiar with Symbian Signed or Java Verified testing criteria early – include the criteria in your requirement specification!
- With user studies, every user counts! Even one user interview is better than none.
- Allow time for iteration in the project schedule – new requirements may emerge and effect the product features.
- In marketing, timing is important – you should not only what to market, but when to market it.
- Some sales and delivery channels only accept Symbian Signed or Java Verified – get certified!
- Make effort estimation easier by breaking down large project phases into small individual tasks for different project members.
- Plan ahead a roadmap of the needed application variants and porting requirements.
- Show your design with prototypes and demos – use Flash Lite to quickly create demos that can be shown in the target device.
- Write clear and well-commented code – someone else may need to continue your work.
- Write guidelines and checklists to make sure that all relevant conventions are remembered during implementation.
- Test your application on target devices as early as possible.
- Take future porting requirements into consideration early in application design.
- Not every concept is meant to go mobile – a killer app in the PC world may prove a flop in the mobile world.
- Use competition product benchmarking to find out good and bad existing solutions out there.
- Verify your product concept and design with real users – do not develop for blind markets!
- Write test cases that cover all product requirements and user tasks.
- Be in time for the device capabilities approval process – ensure that the required capabilities are available for the application.
- Learn more about the signing technology behind the certification process from the document Getting Started With Security.
- A proper development process is the key factor for a high-quality application.
- Imagine the illwill for your application if it drains the battery empty in two hours. Find out how to optimize your application power consumption.
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