Testing is an important part of quality assurance. Different levels of
testing are required for different products. For example, exhaustive
testing with code coverage close to 100% is requried for the products
which malfunction can be injurious to health or environment or can cause
high material losses. However, such exhaustive testing is quite expensive
and looks unreasonable in many cases. We can provide any quality of
testing and can help you to choose and order required quality of testing.
Jointly with other quality assurance services provided by the company
(like Code Review) we can help you to achieve required quality of your
product.
Our principles in the testing:
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automated testing;
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centralized control and logging in the case of distribyted
testing;
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easy-to-understand test cases;
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easy-to-use interface to run required test scenario (subset of
complete test suite).
We can:
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test your product as white or black box;
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analyse for comleteness an existing test specification and design
missing test cases;
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design test specification in accordance with your requirements and
implement it;
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estimate test coverage achieved by the created/exising test harness;
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train your engineers to use created test harness in the
development process;
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train your engineers to use the framework to create new test
cases;
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help you with fixing of found bugs.
We are the most experienced in the testing of the following areas:
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network protocols (ATM, Switching, STP, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4,
ICMPv6, IGMP, UDP, TCP, DHCP, DNS, NAT, Firewall, Routing, etc);
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network management (SNMP agents, SNMP MIBs);
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API (Berkley/Windows Socket API);
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file systems.
Test Environment maintained and actively
developed by OKTET Labs employers is a software product which provides
a powerfull framework for testing of communication protocols, management
and other services.
In fact, TE application domain is restricted by TE architecture and by
provided services only. We have already successfully used TE for testing of:
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SNMP agent MIB implementations;
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HyperLAN/2 MAC-PHY C model;
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DNS client/server;
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DHCP client/relay/server;
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IGMP;
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iSCSI;
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Ethernet switch (STP, ARL, VLAN, management, etc);
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IP routing;
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Socket API;
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Linux services (SSH, FTP, SMTP, DNS server, DHCP server, X, VNC, etc);
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ATM;
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802.1X and RADIUS for WiFi Access Point.
The list of successful stories of TE usage permanently grows. Each
successfull story adds support of corresponding protocols in TE and,
therefore, minimizes efforts for further projects which require such
features.
Services provided by TE define its usefulness and application domain:
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Control of testing process actors (called Test Agents) which may
be used to retrieve configuration (e.g. IP addresses, statically
configured routes, supported SNMP protocol versions) and state
(e.g. dynamic ARP entries, network statistics, etc.) information,
generate and receive network traffic (e.g. ICMP messages, SNMP
requests/replies), call API functions remotely (e.g. Socket API),
etc.
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Centralised time-ordered multilevel structured log collected from
all entities which take part in testing process. Filtering of logs
at compile time, run time and report generation stage.
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Unified interface to any kind of configuration and state
information, centralised control and roll-back of configuration
changes by request and at the end of testing session.
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Execution of complex test scenarios. Structured test cases
representation, iteration of test parameters, random and
simultaneous tests run, test sanity control, running or excluding
from run tests targeted/used some feature.
If you don’t find answers to all your questions, please, feel free to
contact us.
