IP Test Automation: Overview
New converging IP networking technologies create enormous pressures on quality assurance (QA) teams to validate system functionality, conformance, and interoperability. New devices and services place unique requirements on networks, including intolerance for lost or out of order data packets, synchronized/hyper-accurate clocks, and priority delivery of data to high performance applications.
Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) scramble to bring new products to market to meet the demands of their customers ahead of their competitors, while service providers are racing to deploy new offerings based on new devices and protocols. Enterprise IT departments are seeing their networks morph into higher capacity, more cost effective, and environmentally friendly systems.
All of these companies require comprehensive testing to ensure correct design, low cost delivery, high performance, and better quality of experience (QoE). Test case quantity and complexity is growing faster than teams can manage. QA teams need the means to shorten test cycles and improve processes, while maintaining quality and reducing costs.
Ixia's premiere automation solution can shorten QA cycles and free up resources. Ixia's solution can help answer questions about testing practices, such as:
- How can we get more testing done with the equipment we already have?
- Have we maximized our resources and done the best to shorten our test cycle without sacrificing coverage and quality?
- Have we improved the performance of our product with this release through comprehensive and repetitive testing?
- Are my testing results consistent from iteration to iteration?
- Do I have the means of comparing results between vendors and test runs?
- Will test automation actually save me time overall?
- How can we better use our skilled test engineers in more productive activities?
- Can we build the test automation as part of our normal activities?
- How easy is it to introduce new testing tools into my automation environment?
Ixia, the leader in converged IP network testing, provides the best test automation solutions designed specifically for IP network test engineers.
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