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BrochureBy various estimates, testing can make up as much as 30% of the total development budget of a software project. There is no question that testing your software is absolutely critical, but there is no longer a reason for the testing process to take months to complete, with correspondingly high costs. The Telcordia Efficient Test Case Generation Service can shrink those months into weeks and even days, and the results of your tests should be more accurate than those months worth of testing that you have drudged through in the past. Faster and more efficient testing of your product means that you should get to the marketplace faster than your competition, with the assurance that the product will perform just as you want it to.
The Efficient Test Case Generation Service is:FasterUse it to create tests faster than you could with a manually prepared plan. Create a test plan in days instead of months.EfficientEfficiency algorithms create the minimum set of tests required for effective testing. For a system with 13 parameters, and three values for each parameter, 15 complete test cases will be generated. Compare this to over 1.5 million generated by a brute force test generation or exhaustive manual testing.BetterGenerated tests can cover all pairwise, triple, and higher combinations of input data whereas, with manual testing, critical combinations could be skipped.
Why the Efficient Test Case Generation Service is BetterOther test case generators may be impractical for all but the simplest applications because they generate test cases by brute force, resulting in an unmanageable number of very repetitive tests. Using the patented technology from Telcordia Technologies, the Efficient Test Case Generation Service generates the optimal set of tests to completely test a feature. The generated tests can be used for manual testing or to drive the automated test tool of your choice, including popular Graphical User Interface (GUI) testers like SQA Team TestTM, WinRunner®, XRunner®, and Segue SilkTestTM.PracticalIt is easy to adapt your test suite to changing system requirements--just change the inputs to the Efficient Test Case Generation Service model and it will generate new tests. You can easily do this as often as you need to without falling weeks behind on your testing schedule.For ExampleOne mature software system that was tested had not been touched in years. According to the customer, exhaustive testing of this application would have taken 27 trillion test cases if all combinations of data were tried. By modeling the requirements in the Efficient Test Case Generation Service, the customer ended up with 100 critical test cases that uncovered eight bugs in this mature software system.Web-BasedSince the Efficient Test Case Generation Service is Web-based, it can be used from most Web browsers. There is no need to maintain it on your local system and worry about the latest releases and updates.Boundary TestingExperienced testers know that many software bugs occur with boundary conditions--unusual conditions near the edges of the software's functions. Current customers have found the Efficient Test Case Generation Service to be especially effective at generating tests for boundary testing.A Tool for Efficient TestingDesigning a system test plan is difficult and expensive. It can easily take several months of hard work. A moderately-sized system with 100,000 lines of code can have an astronomical number of possible test scenarios. Testers need a methodology to choose among the possibilities. Some guidance is given by the ISO 9000 process, which says that each individual requirement in the requirements document must be tested. However, testing the individual requirements does not guarantee that they work together to deliver the desired functionality. The Efficient Test Case Generation Service can reduce the effort needed to test the interworking of the system's functions. For example, a detailed test plan for creating a network monitoring system that normally would have taken two months by hand was achieved in six days.Fast, Reliable, and Comprehensive TestingThe Efficient Test Case Generation Service generates tests for any software user or data interface running on any computer. It can also be used for testing designs, communications protocols, and interoperability. You can easily set up the parameter and field relationships for your tests by indicating related parameters and fields. You have control over exactly what values are needed for your particular testing parameters, and you can set specific field values. You also can specify what your expected output values are, or specify invalid values.Compatibility with Other ToolsThe Efficient Test Case Generation Service output is obtained in an abbreviated format for viewing. It can be downloaded into a spreadsheet or as a text file that can be read by other test tools.
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