Automated tool slashes interoperability test times

Wireless Futures has developed an automated tool for interoperability testing of wireless products.

Wireless Futures has developed an automated tool for interoperability testing of wireless products.

This ingenious tool allows handset companies and other wireless product developers to automate the testing of their products in a way that was not previously available to them.

"Up to now, handset companies have been forced to manually test interoperability of features such as SMS and EMS, GSM/GPRS data and fax and data synchronisation technologies such as SyncML.

These manual tests can generally take a number of weeks to execute and consequently it is prohibitive for the test teams to perform these tests for each firmware revision", explained Richard Adams, Managing Director.

"This new tool allows companies to execute the full coverage of tests with absolute consistency within a number of days, instead of weeks.

This then allows the test teams to increase the test coverage and ensure interoperability and compatibility with a greater number of products, applications and operating systems", continued Adams.

An example of the reduction in test time can be seen with the automated AT command interface tool.

The tool fully validates the DUT against GSM 07.07 and GSM 07.05 within hours not days.

Wireless Futures takes the core system and tailors it to its customers' specific requirements.

The test execution can then be performed by the customer's test team or by the experienced test engineers at Wireless Futures.

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