Software Testing and Test Automation

A well-organized and executed test process is an essential stage of the entire product life cycle. Testing is used to find defects during and after development and ensure that the end product fully satisfies the customer requirements both in terms of features and quality.

MERA has a well-equipped infrastructure, a reliable methodology and professional teams of testing engineers to provide software product testing services.

At MERA, testing activities are integrated into the process of product development. Bug tracking and fixing becomes the primary focus as the product is handed over to our highly skilled test and support teams. Software testing procedures are imperative to ensure reduction of the product's defect rate and improve quality — normally they account for over 40% of the entire software development process.

However, testing challenges may include:

• Customers wishing to increase their product quality and reliability levels which requires more careful and accurate testing thus becoming time-consuming;
• Customers wish to have regular product enhancements and updates — new features that need to be tested;
• The developer may lack testing tools and techniques to test a specific product feature;
• The developer may encounter increasing time-to-market pressure — when the customer wants to deliver the product faster;
• The developer may face the employees' unwillingness and lack of motivation to perform testing work which is really routine and boring.

To avoid all the mentioned difficulties that make the testing process slow and ineffective, most companies worldwide try to outsource testing to those who do it best.

MERA employs professionals in the field of software testing that have a wealth of experience with a strong focus on testing and test automation for the telecom software industry.

Today, we offer you our services for efficient solution to the following testing challenges:

• MERA's engineers design unique test automation tools and platforms to enhance testing environment, increase test automation degree and avoid manual and, therefore, unreliable testing.
• Standardized testing tools do not meet specific customer requirements. MERA is ready to develop and offer you custom-made testing tools.
• MERA has its own, well-proven, systematic approach to testing.
• MERA's teams of testing engineers are well-trained and have years of previous testing experience.
• MERA's testing teams are trained to track the defects as early as possible — testing procedures can be already performed while the product is under development, thus dramatically decreasing time-to-market period.

A Host of Proprietary Testing and Test Automation Tools

Over the years of its software testing background, MERA has developed proprietary testing and test automation tools and frameworks that include:

• cellular protocols testing tools
• traffic generators
• test automation tools to facilitate testing of both wireless and wireline networks
• HLR (Home Location Register) test simulators
• simulators for cellular network equipment, including OMC-R (Operation and Maintenance Center) simulators
• testing tools that increase automation platform functionality

Software Testing Services at MERA

MERA's testing, verification and validation services cover:

• Test Management
• Test Automation
• Black box / white box testing
• Functional and Parametric Testing
• Regression Testing
• Feature and Product Testing
• Simulated Load Performance Testing
• Compatibility Testing
• Customer Acceptance Testing

MERA's typical software testing services include:

• Development of traffic generators to simulate voice traffic through wireless networks
• Development of test automation environment for OMC software
• Verification of OMC software
• Development and testing of software intended for cellular networks
• Development of testing tools used for cellular protocols testing via HLR servers

MERA's testing benefits include:

• Increase in product quality through effective product defects targeting.
• Differentiated value proposition through custom testing tools and solutions
• Reduction in time to market period through effective work of our expert testing teams.