December 2008

TestAce CTE Deployment Goes Big

Apotheosys Ltd are pleased to announce that the TestAce CTE product has been deployed within one of the largest global telecommunications companies.

The challenge for the blue chip giant was to meet aggressive new targets to increase the use of automated in-house regression testing. TestAce CTE, with its ever-improving feature set coupled with its integration with commercially available test tools such as MGTS, DCT and EVO, was proven after a series of trials to be the only choice. Not only have they met their targets, they have far exceeded them and now plan to rapidly increase their TestAce CTE automation capability.

The TestAce CTE product roadmap combined with the expertise Apotheosys Ltd have to offer has become an essential factor in making their automated regression testing a reality.

TestAce CTE is in operation daily performing a host of regression testing activities across multiple test tools, both bespoke and commercially available. The Pre/Post scripting feature is being used extensively in order to provide health checking capabilities across multiple network elements before, during and after test execution.

The introduction of TestAce CTE has stimulated fresh thinking about where automated testing can go, and also highlighted the value it can add across the business as a whole. It has also raised the bar in terms of what is now viewed as achievable in automated testing.

Apotheosys Ltd continues to work closely with this customer to provide enhancements to TestAce CTE based on their evolving testing requirements as well as expertise to help them realise their future testing goals.

November 2008

Business Development boffin joins in time for Christmas party

Apotheosys Ltd are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr James Cross as its new head of Business Development. After an early career in teaching and research in Computational Mechanics and Finite Element Analysis at Swansea University, James entered the telecoms world in 1999. Since then he has worked for Catapult Communications and Empirix (both US-based suppliers of high-end telecom test equipment) as well as spending two years at Vodafone in the UK.

James will be taking on the role of building up our business in the UK and Europe so, if you’d like to find out more about our products (or about finite elements, heaven help you), give him a call on our office number +44 1793 602566.

October 2008

Out of the box MGTS test scripting becomes one step closer

The latest feature within the TestAce CTE Toolkit brings out of the box MGTS test scripting one step closer. The Import feature enables users to import MGTS test suites and test scripts into TestAce CTE with a click of a button. The assignment files and other associated MGTS test data are automatically loaded into TestAce CTE giving the user the option to add the imported test suites to an existing test plan or merely to add the test suite/test cases into CTE for future use.

The import mechanism significantly reduces the time it takes for a user to create MGTS-related test cases, test suites and test plans within TestAce CTE. This makes the journey from test scripting to automated regression testing that much quicker.

Test Script Generation has been viewed by many as a very difficult task. Apotheosys Ltd however have made simplified test scripting a reality for MGTS test scripts. All the user requires is a master script created using the MGTS test tool, which can then be used as a basis for new test scripts. These new scripts are defined by populating a CSV file with appropriate information, and TestAce CTE will do the rest.

The MGTS test scripts along with the appropriate database, assignment and test suite files will all be generated by TestAce CTE and stored by the tool for future use. This means that after test script generation has been completed the user is just a few short steps away from being able to execute the tests in an automated manner.

September 2008

TestAce CTE Foreground and Background Load takes testing to a new level

Apotheosys Ltd continue to push the boundaries of automated regression testing with the latest addition to the TestAce CTE product roadmap. The Foreground and Background Loading mechanism enables TestAce CTE to combine load with scenario-based testing giving users the ability to simulate real-world high-volume network behaviour within the confines of their test lab.

Test cases can be executed based on pre-determined load points and triggered through a variety of criteria, e.g. the number of successful busy hour call attempts (BHCA). When this is combined with the Pre/Post scripting feature TestAce CTE provides a truly unique capability that enables the user to validate many types of network behaviour during real time test execution.