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January 05, 2009 - At the last ETSI IMS Workshop [ http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/ims2/IMS2.htm ] Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles, CEO at Testing Technologies, talked about "How to increase efficiency in interoperability testing by using test automation frameworks", presenting methods to significantly reduce the time spent in validating traces. The techniques were put to the test at the event, successfully reducing the time to evaluate each Interoperability Test up to 50% with 100% accuracy!
After twelve hours of trace reading, even the most versatile expert encounters his limitations. The offline analysis of traces requires meticulous concentration, is Error-prone and depends on experts who are able to understand and validate content and sequence of data captured in each interoperability session.
The Testing Technologies solution, built on top of the TTworkbench product, not only automatically validates traces, but also visualizes the interoperability scenarios graphically and produces human readable test reports. - All this, at a touch of a button.
The panel discussion at the ETSI IMS Plugtest identified the lack of thorough Conformance Testing as one of the main issues when evaluating interoperability test results. However, it has also been accepted that classical Conformance Testing, as performed in the days of ISDN, ATM, and GSM, is far beyond any economic reasoning.
Testing Technologies' goal is to bring two worlds together - the Conformance Testing world with its typically high degree of test automation driven by a Tester Simulator and the Interoperability Testing world, where devices are simply plugged together and usage scenarios are used as test criteria.
The TTworkbench Automated Validation Solution has been successfully applied at the 2nd IMS Plugtest hosted by ETSI in Bled, Slovenia. Stephan Schulz, team member of ETSI Plugtest, summarizes Testing Technologies' tool support as follows:
"All in all, we have been very satisfied with your support and performance of the tool. We have been able to significantly speed up conformance analysis. Results from the first test sessions included 100% matches of tool verdicts and manual analysis, and that is a strong statement."
Check out the website of the IMS Workshop to obtain presentations and meeting minutes of workshops.
[http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus_events/ngni/ims_ws_08/index.html ]
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