Framework for Automated Software Testing

Ciprian Talaba, Windriver

Today we can see that every major ODM/OEM plans to have an Android device, so several questions need an answer: How can somebody survive in this dynamic and highly competing environment? What the carriers will look for selecting devices in their network and how will they differentiate? How can you differentiate at reasonable cost? How can you meet quality requirements in an open source environment?

Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) was developed to help customers overcome the challenges of testing large software distributions for mobile devices. FAST provides a system for combining multiple test frameworks into a single meta-framework that can be run with “a single button press”. Wind River leverages as many open source and existing test frameworks as possible so testing is comprehensive, without sacrificing time-to-market. It helps automate, execute, and manage thousands of tests and their results. FAST makes executing tests much simpler because they are all wrapped in FAST scripts and run from the FAST graphical user interface (GUI) and an available command-line interface (CLI).

For application testing Wind River has implemented a revolutionary test authoring and execution mechanism names System Testing Plug-in. System Testing Plug-in is a unique, powerful, and exciting technology that makes UI elements available for interrogation and manipulation from automated test scripts and it can easily port existing tests for use with a new UI.