Reliable, unattended, automated testing system and method for complex telecommunication systems
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsLee Arlan Herrbach, Victoria Blake Klick, Jeffrey Leigh Sands
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Abstract
An automated telecommunication testing system and method in which a test computer automatically performs a test suite that is robust due to the individual robustness of the individual procedures of which the suite of tests is selectively composed that are stored in a library procedure repository and selectively used pursuant to the running of a test suite program to test a complex telecommunication system and test resources through system test interfaces. The high cost of robustness of each of the individual procedures is amortized over the repeated use of the same procedures in different suites for different applications and different types of test suites.
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A reliable, unattended, automated testing system for complex telecommunication systems, the system comprising:
- a library procedure repository for storing a software library of commonly performed computer-executable procedures for unattended, automatic testing of a complex telecommunication system, each of said procedures having at least one of a fault tolerance strategy and a failure recovery strategy as part of the procedure;
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- a test computer that is external and independent relative to the complex telecommunication system and comprises a single point of control for running a suite of tests on the complex telecommunication system including at least selected ones of the commonly performed computer-executable procedures for unattended, automatic testing of the complex telecommunication system.
A reliable, unattended, automated testing method for complex telecommunication systems, the method comprising the steps of:
- storing in a library procedure repository a software library of commonly performed computer-executable procedures for unattended, automatic testing of a complex telecommunication system, each of said procedures having at least one of a fault tolerance strategy and a failure recovery strategy as part of the procedure;
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- operating a test computer that is external and independent relative to the complex telecommunication system and comprises a single point of control for running a suite of tests on the complex telecommunication system including at least selected ones of the commonly performed computer-executable procedures for unattended, automatic testing of the complex telecommunication system.
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