Data Communication Equipment Automatic Test And Implementation

Data telecommunication gets more and more attention with its high speed development. Both IP-based mobile networks and the trend of triple-play have increasingly demand on bearer network data communication devices. By now, the high quality and high reliability of products have already become the common focus for major communication manufacturers both at home and abroad. With the development of data communication network, with the increase of product complexity and diversity, and with the continues development of testing technology, more and more testers have found that the traditional manually test is far from to satisfy current demand with the character of cost high, execute cumbersome, and efficiency low. In order to overcome the shortcomings of manual testing, automatic testing techniques have been widely introduced, and become the development direction of testing data communications product. The emergence of automated testing framework indicate that the software automatic test technology is maturing, automated testing must be more cost-effective, more conducive to the implementation of maintenance in future.This article first introduces the research background, the characteristics and the status quo of data communications product testing, and then explained the concept of software automatic testing, separately introduced the strengths and weaknesses of automatic testing, and compared it with manual testing. This article has introduced the functions of test platform on the point of project management, such as the test suite management of automatic testing, the execution of test project, test plan, the exception handling when running script, test logs and test results statistics, and introduce and analyze the concept of existing automatic testing framework from the script running process of automatic framework, insight introduced the operating process of testing devices and equipments under test (such as switches) in data communication automatic test. With the experience of daily work, the author has summarized the automatic test scripts development process, introduced the automatic test scripts develop language TCL, and analyzed the reason of choosing TCL as the develop langue, and put forward the criterion of developing automatic scripts. Finally, the article gives further information on the automated test suite design methods and development process by recommend the design and development of specific agreements automated test suite.The data telecommunication products automatic test implement program introduced in this article is the experience summarize of practical work, is an automatic design apply in real world, it can promote the data communication products implement automatic test in function test, performance test, and so on. Besides that, it can save development costs while effectively improve the test efficiency and shorten the test cycle.