MiriATE benefits the following companies:
• Network Operators – for testing new services and consumer device acceptance testing
• Device Manufacturers – for development and integration testing of new devices
• Device Software Vendors – to test new devices integrations
• Silicon and Hardware Vendors – to test hardware components integrated into devices
• Regulators and Standards Bodies – for automated acceptance testing or self–certification
• Network Equipment Manufacturers – to test end–to–end service performance over network equipment
• Repair Centres – to automate fault testing of returned devices
Device Testing
Testing modern consumer devices is challenging and expensive due to device complexity and the integration of software and components from multiple vendors. The testing process also has a significant impact on the time-to-market of the device.
Device software and hardware vendors also need the ability to test products in commercial device integrations and in representative devices during development.
Mirifice helps manufacturers and software/hardware suppliers create good quality devices: on time and to budget. Reliable devices avoid costly delays in acceptance, high levels of device returns and expensive in-field support.
End–to–end Service Testing
Launching new multimedia and interactive services over Broadcast or Telecoms networks is challenging and expensive. These services are delivered from a complex server infrastructure, across a shared transport network (contention), to a range of complex consumer devices in the home. The cost and brand damage of launching a poor service is significant.
Operators must test new services, in real–use scenarios. MiriATE allows operators to automate service testing via the actual consumer devices that will be used to access them.
Mirifice helps network operators launch new services: thoroughly tested, on–time and to budget. Reliable services protect and strengthen consumer loyalty.
Acceptance Testing
MiriATE provides the capability to automate a large number of standardised acceptance tests. This allows:
• Network Operators to streamline device acceptance testing and the regression testing of new software builds
• Regulators and Standards Bodies to automate conformance tests.
There is scope to use MiriATE with standardised acceptance tests to implement self-certification.
Repair Centre Testing
MiriATE can automate fault testing for devices returned by customers to repair centres: enabling unattended testing of multiple devices in parallel. MiriATE can reduce labour costs, increase throughput and improve the consistency of testing. Consistent, reliable automated testing improve fault identification rates and reduce subsequent warranty returns.
Testing Teams
Test engineers need to be skilled and experienced to provide sufficiently good notes and anecdotal evidence from manual testing – which allow the engineering team to trace a fault and fix it. Poor discipline in test execution or observation will result in inadequate evidence for fault replication or erroneous fault reports. Poor manual testing discipline is most likely to occur with complex and lengthy routine tests.
Rather than executing routine tests, or supervising other staff executing routine tests, skilled test engineers should be focused on:
• Defining, rather than executing, routine tests
• Executing the complex, specialist tests
• Investigating specific faults in detail
Manual testers cannot execute true random, endurance or stress tests on products, which might take days to complete.
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