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Test Automation for Switching Protocol Stack

Project overview

Development of platform-agnostic L2-L3 protocol stack that can be easily installed on hardware of various vendors.

Customer profile

A leading US-based Embedded software provider.

Challenges Challenges

  • From testing perspective, Networking was a new technological area for the customer
  • Extremely tight deadlines and high quality requirements, paired with the need to provide clear and simple progress and status visibility.

Technical highlights Technical highlights

  • Complete test strategy developed to fit an aggressive schedule
  • Custom test framework designed for test automation optimization
  • An efficient test automation infrastructure was created, able to support multiple major releases.

Business value

  • PLVision’s automated testing solution was successfully integrated with the customer’s infrastructure, enabling the construction of a CI system with support for the customer-specific test environment and features
  • Several sub-projects were supported within the CI system, providing improved visibility of the result for each stage of the process, with associated significant reductions in management overhead, time and costs.