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Bridging the Gap with Test Automation Tools

Today's testing teams are struggling to maintain product quality and control of product release cycles. Why?

• Devices and interoperability testing requirements are becoming increasingly complex.
• The labor and skill required to test each release is growing but headcount is not.
• Testing tools are not evolving at the same pace as tools used to design new products (80 percent of testing is done manually).

Spirent iTest® can help organizations effectively address these challenges. iTest enables testers, developers, and automation teams to automate testing practices at several key levels: process, asset sharing, and communication. So your team as well as others can directly contribute to your test automation initiative and maximize productivity throughout the workflow.

iTest enables QA organizations to achieve quality objectives and meet release dates without requiring late nights or sacrificing test coverage. A powerful testing tool, iTest automates critical testing processes to accelerate system and device testing throughout the QA organization.

iTest is applicable for a full range of testing scenarios, from a single device to a complex system incorporating hundreds of devices as well as test equipment and software systems. From the simplest router to the most advanced 4G technology, iTest automates testing without the need for scripting. Read more about iTest works.

Open Industry Standards

Spirent is a leading contributor to the development of industry standards that promote interoperability of commercial testing tools and test infrastructure through the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF). iTest continues to be developed and enhanced by Spirent as a pluggable platform based on these open industry standards. We enable customers, partners, and other test equipment vendors with an open Software Development Kit (SDK) which they can use to automate virtually any device or software found in today’s lab environments.

Standard and optional modules support a wide range of session types:

• Command line tools, including telnet, SSH, HTTP, Serial Port and Tcl Shell
• GUI tools, including Web, Adobe Flash, Java Swing, and VNC
• Traffic Generators, including Spirent TestCenter, Spirent Avalanche, Ixia IxN2X, Ixia IxNetwork, Ixia IxLoad and Ixia IxOS
• Infrastructure and system test tools, including SOAP/REST Web Services and Vmware vSphere

A Unified Approach to Testing

iTest is an integrated test authoring and execution solution built for testers, developers, and automation teams. It provides QA organizations with a unified approach for rapidly developing, automating, and maintaining test cases. With iTest, QA organizations can:

• Accelerate testing throughout the QA organization by reducing manual tasks
• Enable all QA team members to effectively contribute to automation efforts, regardless of skill level
• Automate testing by easily implementing and automating pass/fail criteria within tests
• Use virtualization technology to cut time to market and enable offline testing
• Improve collaboration across teams and between companies with a standardized communication platform
• Streamline testing by integrating automated processes with existing testing infrastructures

Tailored to Meet Specific User Needs

Available in multiple editions, iTest matches the right functionality to the right job role, experience level, and use model. QA team members, from developers to automation engineers, can use different editions of iTest to create a highly efficient automation assembly line.