June 2009 Archives

As my earlier blog said, we're here to get a discussion on the future of testing, and what it means to legacy testing as it melds with next generation products and services. 

I have been identifying some critical issues in the field of testing.  So, we need sensible ways to address the need to ensure product integrity and quality while meeting aggressive market deadlines and coping with dynamically changing test environments. 

Today I'm going to discuss the use of equipment in test labs. Test labs have a variety of equipment to do a variety of tests.  The equipment often is from multiple vendors, each requiring proprietary scripts. To be able to automate the multiple scripts from multiple machines into one program would be a test engineer's dream come true.

No one piece of test equipment does everything well, thus many labs utilize equipment from more than one vendor.

I'd like to thank TMC for the opportunity to share some thoughts with you on the subject of testing and test automation. It is a pleasure to have this space to talk about this important topic.

As the title of this blog implies, the focus will be on the future of testing, and in particular, how to incorporate the knowledge and results of legacy testing with next generation products and services and yield substantive results. We need sensible ways to address the growing demand for better ways to ensure product integrity and quality while meeting aggressive market deadlines and coping with dynamically changing test environments. 

In order to understand the future of testing, it is important to identify some the key problems and challenges that are facing many of today's telecommunications software testers and managers. We'll discuss these challenges in some detail, and then offer some practical and effective means to deal with many of them.

My team and I have many years of hands on involvement in development and testing of advanced telecommunications products and systems.