Network Test Automation Forum Member
The advantages of automation are numerous—reduction in cycle time, quality improvement through increased test coverage and higher rates of return on investment. But to fully recognize these benefits requires integration of all the various devices across multiple equipment vendors. To help companies achieve these benefits, the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF) was created.
NTAF’s mission is to create interoperable testing solutions and simplify lab management for service providers, network equipment manufacturers and enterprise organizations. Members include test equipment and service vendors and users of their products and services including:
Spirent’s participation in NTAF is a natural extension of its efforts within the Test Automation Alliance (TAA). Building on the experience gained through the creation and deployment of Spirent’s NoCode solution, Spirent brings expertise in delivering an integrated, modular, multi-vendor, multi-layer test framework with test and lab management capabilities covering operations, test, systems and device automation.
Test and lab management features include:
Test Management
- Emulate large-scale, real-world networks for service providers and networks
- Configure and execute existing IP benchmarking test packages
- Build powerful test analysis logic, pass/fail test criteria with branching, without scripting
- Establish a repeatable test case environment across teams and companies
- View test run summaries and browse detail test results stored in a database
- Schedule tests and archive results in a central database
Lab Management
- Configure and control lab devices, including power and connectivity, with a visual topology editor that supports discovery
- Manage devices with a deterministic/queued device scheduler
- Manage multi-user, access privileges, and priorities
- Automate devices via command line interfaces, web interfaces, SNMP, command shells, HTTP, Tcl, and more
- Save, edit, and quickly recall device configurations
- Integrate the environment with existing testing infrastructures and processes
