Testing Solutions

Test Automation

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Demonstrate Return on Your Investments in Testing

Expanding the scope and coverage of testing, reducing cycle times, and making optimal use of assets and resources - is a key priority in our customers' Labs across Canada.

Key stepping stones toward these goals include:

Test Case Authoring

Begin with the end in mind – Define the expected results of your testing, and reverse-engineer the test plan based on these requirements

  • Determine the metrics and goals that matter, and the tests to collect them
  • Capture manual testing efficiently, and automate quickly
  • Develop test scripts to be portable, reusable, supportable, and device-independent
  • Leverage programming investments across development, QA, PV, and technical support

Connectivity Control

Your skilled resources spend a huge proportion of time between test cycles, struggling with test setup and execution, and troubleshooting test bed errors.

  • Automate physical layer connections, and reduce repetitive manual tasks
  • Provide fast, flexible and dynamic topology setup, tear down and replication, to reduce cycle times
  • Reduce costs, errors, and wear and tear on fibers, cables and equipment, and time and labor cost rewiring lab topologies, and troubleshooting connections
  • Link power management functionality into reservation and scheduling, so equipment is only on when in use, saving power and air-conditioning 

Configuration Management

The software configuration of devices in your test bed is a key variable, and source of testing errors.  Be deterministic with configuration management tools.

  • Simplify and automate device provisioning, software loads, and physical and logical configurations
  • Accurately and rapidly design, build, save, and restore configurations as complete topologies for regression testing, issue replication, disaster recovery, or roll back
  • Snapshot, save, and archive, to restore in other locations restore hardware and software topologies of any size, “on the fly’ or on a scheduled basis
  • Audit and verify configurations with tools, to reduce errors and troubleshooting

Test Management

Testing’s benefits lie in the results you get from multiple test runs, and controlling specific variables.  Simplify iterative testing, and analysis of results.

  • Enhance collaboration – Share test beds, test cases and scripts between teams, via common repositories with revision control
  • Instantly share test results in a searchable archive of comprehensive results, with flexible reporting of key business and technical metrics
  • Enable analysis and trending, to spot trends, identify root causes, and provide feedback to development 

Lab Management

Real costs in the lab accumulate as the diversity of groups, projects and test requirements increases.  Streamline key lab processes to realize return on investments in testing.

  • Allocate resources effectively with intelligent scheduling and reservation
  • Manage Inventory - Automate updates, enable tracking and reduce “lost” equipment
  • Enable 24x7 scheduling, control and remote access to lab and test resources from anywhere, with minimal intervention
  • Improve visibility of lab operations, and make timely decisions on scheduling and resource allocation
  • Evaluate lab efficiency and equipment utilization with data mining and reporting, to control operating costs, demonstrate ROI and justify new capital investments 


Overview

Empowered provides comprehensive automation solutions to help you:

  • Automation enables more regression testing, greater test coverage and reduce CFDs
  • Develop and execute automated Test Plans, including automated connection, configuration, execution, report generation and reconfiguration
  • Share expensive assets across multiple labs and user groups, reduce capital expenses
  • Manage and automate allocation of lab assets, physical layer connections, configuration of DUTs and Test Sets, and execution of test cases
  • Eliminate repetitive manual tasks, minimize errors and troubleshooting, and maximize productivity of your subject matter experts
  • Ensure repeatable, reproducible results, with meaningful business value

Products

Our Test Automation Offerings include:

  • FanFare iTest efficiently captures manual testing steps for any vendor’s test set or Web UI,  and enables automation with common APIs, protecting programming investments.  iTest enables efficient regression testing, with portable, reusable, supportable test scripts, shared across development, QA, and even technical support.
  • Solutions from MRV and other partners, combined with Lab Manager, enable and automate physical layer connectivity, power management and remote access
  • AutoTest is a simplified framework to better organize, execute and track the results of tests, that seamlessly integrates into more comprese
  • GaleForce is an end-to-end lab resource automation and orchestration platform that dramatically simplifies the management and provisioning of lab, data center, or cloud resources, and enables resource reservation, scheduling, and 24/7 test execution

Related Offerings

  • Our Network Testing Offerings conduct a wide variety of tests – scalability, performance, interoperability, conformance, and quality of service – with precise, granular measurements, at full line rates for 1/10/40/100 Gbit/s Ethernet
  • Our Data Center Testing Offerings help you test the interconnections between physical and virtual servers, storage, networks and related data center infrastructure, to help you validate the performance, availability, security and scalability that different private, public and hybrid Cloud solutions deliver
  • Our Application Testing Offerings help you emulate massive numbers of web, voice and video clients, with realistic application layer traffic, and stress-test the mechanisms that control access, security, authentication, and billing
  • Our Lab Realism Offerings help you test the impacts of changes in network paths and conditions, simulate real world networks and extremes of negative testing, and the impacts of security attacks on authorized and valid traffic
  • Our Network Monitoring Offerings enable visibility, monitoring, diagnostics and analysis of the packets flowing across enterprise and service provider networks, and advanced solutions for linking test and monitoring tools to any traffic on the network

Empowered Value-Add

Empowered helps our customers deploy best-of-breed solutions with integrated processes to transform testing into competitive advantage.  Our Experts in Testing combine advanced skills and training with real-world experience.

Empowered can help you:

  • Research testing requirements, standards and methodologies, and align these with your requirements, and metrics for success
  • Assess the testing assets, and lab and test management processes you have in place
  • Understand the real costs of the status quo, and quantify the savings, process impacts and ROI you could achieve
  • Define and automate your test plans, to make them repeatable and reproducible, with support for dynamic and automated adjustments to test parameters
  • Select the right solutions to address your priority needs, and budget, and integrate them into you Lab enviornment and processes
  • Support you all the way, with ad-hoc and in-depth training, scripting support and the integration help you need to get started, and achieve your goals

Trust Empowered to help you architect, implement and integrate a Lab & Test Management solution to match your needs and budget, that will help you succeed.

 

To learn more Contact Us: 1.877.325.1855, Email