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ABSTRACT

WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging application

For smartphones. Moreover, to basic messaging WhatsApp Messenger users can send

Each other images, video as well as audio media messages. The client software is

Available for Google Android, BlackBerry OS, Apple iOS, selected Nokia Series 40, Symbian,

SelectedNokia Asha platform, Microsoft Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10. WhatsApp Inc.

Was founded in 2009 by Americans Brian Actonand Jan Koum (also the CEO), both

Former employees of Yahoo!, and is based in Mountain View, California. The company

Employs 55 people. WhatsApp Android is not compatible with only Android ; it is

Available for iOS, BlackBerry OS, Symbian and Windows Phone only. WhatsApp

Synchronizes with the phone‟s contact‟s book, so users do not need to add contacts in a

Separate book. As the underlying technology the application uses the open standard XMPP.On

February 19, 2014, Facebook Inc. announced it is acquiring WhatsApp Inc. for US$19

Billion. Facebook will pay $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares and $3 billion

In restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp founders and employees that will vest over

Four years.

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1.INTRODUCTION

WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging application for smart phones. In

Addition to text messaging, users can send each other images, video and audio media messages.

The client software is available for iOS, BlackBerry OS, Android, Symbian, Series

40, and Windows Phone.

Competing with a number of Asia-based messaging services WhatsApp handles two billion
Messages per day as of April 2012, growing from one billion in October 2011.

According to the Financial Times, WhatsApp "has done to SMS on mobile phones what

Skype did to international calling on landlines."

Software Specification:

1. Developer(s) : WhatsApp Inc.

2. Stable release: Android2.8.1504 (July 30, 2012)

BlackBerry OS 2.8.1914 (August 12, 2012)

Ios 2.8.2 (July 13, 2012)

Symbian2.8.13 (August 16, 2012)

Windows Phone2.8.2.0 (September 10, 2012)

3. Development status : Active

4. O.S : Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Symbian, Series 40, and Windows Phone

5. Type : Instant Messaging.

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Achievements:
WhatsApp crossed its own milestone for the first time by sending just over 1 billion messages in
A single day.

Just how much is 1 billion messages? That is 41,666,667 messages an hour, 694,444 messages a
Minute, and 11,574 messages a second.

1 billion messages a day is a significant .

WhatsApp is editors choice in google app market.

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2.Silent features of WhatsApp For Android:

1.Multiplatform and free for the first year (except on iOS).

2.Automatic detection of Whatsapp users by comparing address book content.

3.Low on network usage.

4.Unlimited length of messages.

5.Personal display status.

6.Real-time confirmations when messages are sent as well as delivered.

7.Share photos, videos, music and more with people.

8.Able to send current or any specific location.

9.Create and join groups where you can chat as well as share media.

10.You can apply group icons.

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3.THE MASTERMIND

WhatsApp was founded by two guys “Jom Koum” and “Brian Acton” who spent combined 20 years

Doing geeky stuff at Yahoo! Inc. before starting WhatsApp Inc.

Jan Koum (born in Kiev, Ukraine on February 24, 1976) is CEO and co-founder with Brian Acton

Of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February

2014 for US$19 Billion. Koum is Jewish and grew up in Fastiv, outside Kiev in

Ukraine. He moved with his mother and grandmother to Mountain View, California in 1992,

Where a social support program helped the family to get a small two-bedroom apartment, at the age of 16.

His father had intended to join the family later, but finally remained in Ukraine. At first Koum's mother

Worked as a babysitter, while he himself worked as a cleaner at a grocery. By the age of 18 he

Became interested in programming. He enrolled at San Jose State University and simultaneously worked

At Ernst & Young as a security tester.

In 1997, Jan Koum was hired by Yahoo as an infrastructure engineer, shortly after he met Brian Acton

While working at Ernst & Young as a security tester. Over the next nine years, they worked at

Yahoo. In September 2007 Koum and Acton left Yahoo and took a year off, traveling around South

America and playing ultimate frisbee. Both applied, and failed, to work at Facebook. In

January 2009, he bought an iPhone and realized that the then-seven-month-old App Store was about to

Spawn a whole new industry of apps. He visited his friend Alex Fishman and the two talked for hours

About Koum‟s idea for an app over tea at Fishman‟s kitchen counter. Koum almost

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Immediately Choose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what‟s up,” and a week

Later on his Birthday, Feb. 24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California.

Jan Koum was part of a group of hackers called w00w00, where he met the future founders of

Napster Shawn Fanning and Jordan Ritter.

Brian Acton (born 1972) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-

Founder of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired By Facebook Inc.
In February 2014 for US$19 billion. He was formerly employed at Yahoo.

Action grew up in Michigan and graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a degree in

Computer science. He earlier studied at the University of Central Florida and the University of

Pennsylvania. In 1992 he became a systems administrator for Rockwell International, then a

Product tester at Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems. In 1996 he became the 44th employee hired by

Yahoo Inc.

In 2014, Koum and Acton agreed to sell WhatsApp to Facebook for approximately $19 billion

USD in cash and stock. Forbes estimates that Acton held over 20% stake in the company,

Making his net worth around $3.8 billion. According to Acton's personal Twitter feed, he was

Turned down for employment by both Twitter and Facebook in 2009.

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4.HOW IT WORKS
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange
Messages without having to pay for SMS.

1. WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and
web B Browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends.
2. WhatsApp users can create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and
audio Messages.

Technical specifics:
WhatsApp uses a customized version of the open standard Extensible Messaging and
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Presence Protocol (XMPP).

1. Developed for Third Generation IC Integrated smartphones.

2. The Greater bandwidth networks such as 3G or WiF.
3. ID creation : During installation,take userid as Eg. [phone number]@s.whatsapp.net).
4. Password Creation :In Android: reversed-version of the phone's IMEI,MD5 hashed. In
iOS: double MAC address, MD5 hashes it.

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5.DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING

One can simply verify whatsapp using your own mobile number

First you need to havenload

Application installed
whatsapp in your
by visiting mobile and needs to have minimum balance.
http://www.whatsapp.com/download/
Follow the steps:

1. Install the application.

2. Launch the application.

3. Enter your mobile number and tap on “OK” button.

4. Verification process will be completed in 10-15 secs of 10 minutes total time.

5. Your mobile will get register with your own SIM(mobile) number.

Suppose if the application was uninstalled, you can again install and register with the previous number.

The process will be same as the above.

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6.To verify whatsapp by entering a invalid mobile number

Whatsapp not only test the mobile IMEI numbers but also test the valid or wrong numbers.
Suppose if you have entered a invalid/wrong number.

For to test this,you need to have a mobile with SIM inserted and whatsapp installed and with
Minimum balance.

Then the procedure will be as follows:

1. Launch the application.

2. Enter any number other than your mobile number and tap on "OK" button.

3. Verification process continues and after 10 minutes of total time.

4. Your mobile gets "connection failed,reverify" popup.

This will happen because whatsapp will work for one number and one device.

If any one try to register with a invalid/wrong number,a highly secured procedure is
Implemented.

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7.PROTOCOL USED

WhatsApp uses a customized version of the open standard Extensible Messaging and Presence

Protocol (XMPP) Upon installation, it creates a user account using one's phone number as the

Username (Jabber ID: [phone number]@s.whatsapp.net). WhatsApp software automatically

Compares all the phone numbers from the device's address book with its central database of

WhatsApp users to automatically add contacts to the user's WhatsApp contact list. Previously the

Android and S40 versions used an MD5-hashed, reversed-version of the phone's IMEI as

Password,[15] while the iOS version used the phone's Wi-Fi MAC address instead of IMEI. A

2012 update now generates a random password on the server side.

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XMPP:
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is a communications protocol for
Message-oriented middleware based on XML(Extensible Markup Language).[1] The protocol was
Originally named Jabber,[2] and was developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999
For near real-time, instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance.
Designed to be extensible, the protocol has also been used for publish- subscribe systems,
Signalling for VoIP, video, file transfer, gaming, Internet of Things applications such as the smart
Grid, and social networking services.

Unlike most instant messaging protocols, XMPP is defined in an open standard and uses an open
Systems approach of development and application, by which anyone may implement an XMPP service
And interoperate with other organizations' implementations. Because XMPP is an open protocol,
Implementations can be developed using any software license; although many server, client, and
Library implementations are distributed as free and open-source software, numerous
Freeware and commercial software implementations also exist.

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Characteristics:

1. Open: It's free. There are multiple implementations for open source XMPP Servers, as
many customers and development libraries.
2. Free: you can see how it works, and the user has the freedom to implement himself
The freedom to suit their needs, without needing anyone's approval.

3. Extensible: using the potential of XML, anyone can extend the XMPP protocol For custom
functionality.

4. Decentralized: anyone can start their own XMPP server.

5. Insurance: Safety Supports the transport layer and any XMPP server can be isolated from

the public XMPP.

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XML:

XMPP is essentially a technology for transmitting XML. Once the connection is established,we Can
exchange messages asynchronously with the server.

Types of XML tags to transmit diffrent type of messages:

1. Stream: Container unit is a sequence of messages XMPP.

2. Message: Used to send messages between users.

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The messages are the most important part of any instant messenger system. XMPP is a message
oriented protocol, which can be of six different :

1. Normal: they would like messages to the email.

2. Chat: person who posts messages would be used in a conversation between two people.

3. Group chat: messages sent to a group of people.

4. Headline: that would be the marquee messages.

5. Error: for error messages.

6. Jabber:x:oob: for direct connections between clients for sending messages.

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MD5:
The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash function

Producing a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value, typically expressed in text

Format as a 32 digit hexadecimal number. MD5 has been utilized in a wide

Variety of cryptographic applications, and is also commonly used to verify data integrity.

MD5 was designed by Ron Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function, MD4. The

Source code in RFC 1321 contains a "by attribution" RSA license.

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8.WhatsApp vs. ChatON vs. LINE

WhatsApp ChatON LINE

VoIP NO Yes Yes

Tablet NO Yes Yes

Client Web NO Yes Yes

Free NO Yes Yes

Multiplatform Yes Yes Yes

Consumers Normal Quite Much

Users 100 Millions 2 Millions 89 Millions

Int. User Very good Good Regular

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9.FEATURES OF WHATSAPP

Sending Places:

1. Allowed you to send your location to your chat partner or to your group chat.

2. It is useful if you want to share your approximate location on a map.

Group Icon:

1. Personalize your group chat by attaching a custom icon to your group

Group chat:
1. You can exit a group chat that you are in at any time.

2. You can control group chat alerts and notifications separately from individual messages.

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Media transfer:
1. Audio , video, pictures , animation etc.

2. If you have an iPhone 3GS running iPhone OS 3.1 or higher, you can also send a
video,but both parties need to be running version 2.3 in order to send and receive media
messages.

Message delivery receipts:

1. In 2.3 you probably have noticed by now that you see a red letter attached to every
message you send. Those red letters are actually quite important because they tell you
if your message was delivered properly or not.

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10.FUTURE SCOPE

What lies ahead is known by none. The application is free today but may not be tomorrow or so the

Talks go around.

As far as the facilities provided are concerned, WhatsApp today does not provide the option of
„Calling‟ (although its logo has a phone receiver inscribed in the centre!). It may have this in future. With
The technology growing in leaps and bounds, we may also expect a Skype-like free video call via
WhatsApp. What has been a user-friendly, connectivity application till date may take a turn towards
Shared- information holding platform like Drop box, meaning people may not only be able to chat on
WhatsApp but also share and store common data.
With the advent of „Cloud Computing‟, the world has virtually shrunk down to the size of a room. It

May not come as a surprise hence, to see such a large network-sharing support on WhatsApp someday.

Whether the mole will actually become a mountain someday is a mystery. Till then, we enjoy the

Present and await the surprises of future.

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11.CONCLUSION
1. Application testing requires a detailed overview of the System requirements
Functional requirements.

2. Testing application and making it to sustain in harsh environment makes the

application more flexible and quality wise very rich.

3. Based on products review upgradation is done this makes application to stay alive
and popular in Market.

4. Various robust testing makes the application capable to satisfy every requirements
and needs of the Customer.

5. WhatsApp on the other hand has been around for quite some time now and is
being used by most And offers functionality like text based messaging and files
transfers.

6. But given enough time Line is a Capable product and in the future it hold the
potential to overtake WhatsApp, unless some new Innovations is adopted by the
world leader in messengers.

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12.REFERENCES

1.https://www.whatsapp.com

2.https://www.es.wikipidea.org/whatsapp

3.https://www.whatsapp.com/android

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