The practical engineer: spec-based tests make sure telecom software works

  • Authors:
  • Larry Apfelbaum

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Designers of contemporary telecommunications equipment face a daunting task, bringing quickly to market in an intensely competitive environment products that rely on ever more complex software. The author discusses a relatively new approach to creating software tests which is based on a graphical specification of the system's behaviour combined with an automatic test script generator. The approach is applied in Teradyne's TestMaster