TESTING/AUTOMATED TESTING Comnet supports the functional testing needs of numerous software clients. Not only has Comnet provided quality assurance (QA) teams that independently verify the quality of iterative software releases for a software product, but Comnet has also used test automation techniques as the vehicle for ensuring product functionality and quality while minimizing cost. Comnet has used a variety of approaches to provide the facilities/labs necessary for its functional testing program. In some cases, clients ask Comnet to build the labs necessary for a given testing program. In those cases, Comnet has been nimble in quickly acquiring and configuring the necessary hardware/software resources. In other cases Comnet's QA teams have utilized the customer's existing facilities/labs. In either case Comnet is able to implement a functional testing program that is customized to your company's needs. While the initial Product Evaluation testing involved the execution of manual procedures, the Comnet test team also worked with the customer to implement an automated testing program. The team implemented and validated high-level software functions and test scripts to automate the testing process using the customer's Automated Testing System. This Automated Testing System allowed the test script writer to develop object-oriented tests using the object-oriented TCL scripting language. On the order of 150 high level software functions were developed to facilitate test script development and over 400 test scripts were implemented and verified. This test automation effort reduced testing time and thereby increased the productivity, test coverage and cost savings per customer delivery by automating approximately 70 percent of the tests executed. Many of the software functions were subsequently reused by the customer to support the testing of an evolving UMTS MSC.
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