Key Points

• Test programs for most modern software-based systems are still generated manually.
• Automating software test generation significantly increases test quality and reduces life cycle costs.
• Using a model-based approach, TestMaster not only automates test generation, but makes it easy to respond quickly to changes in requirements, system configuration, or test execution environment.

Presentation Abstract

Software verification has become a bottleneck in the delivery of new communications products. Creating test content is the biggest part of the problem. Organizations that adopt an automated approach to test content creation will have a significant competitive advantage in the race to cover the glove with reliable communications systems. TestMaster offers a new approach to creating test content that combines a graphical specification, or model, of system-under-test behavior with an automatic test script generator. TestMaster customers report 80-90% improvements in test development time and productivity across a wide range of software applications and test execution environments.

About the Author

Mark A. Myers is product manager for in-circuit board test systems and for the BoardWatch Test Process Management System at Teradyne Inc. He attended the University of Michigan, where he earned his B.S.E.E., M.S.E., and M.B.A degrees. He joined Teradyne in 1977 as a sales engineer, and managed the company's Detroit sales office before assuming his current position.