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Advanced Mobile Application Testing Environment demonstrated at International Conference on Software Engineering
ST. LOUIS, May 16 - mVerify founders James Hanlon and Robert Binder presented results of their two year R&D project at the Workshop on Advances in Model-Based Software Testing, co-located with 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering. The presentation showed how the Advanced Mobile Application Testing Environment (AMATE) combined model-based testing with mVerify's innovative digital airlink emulation technology to achieve highly realistic testing of a mobile application using a WiFi data link.
AMATE uses a unique strategy to generate realistic test suites. Test inputs and signal conditioning commands are interleaved in real-time during a test run. The test generation strategy includes several significant innovations.
- Inputs of external actors using mobile devices
are generated in accordance with a configurable operational profile.
- Commands to the AMATE airlink emulator that achieve radio signal conditions corresponding to each actor's simulated position are generated using a terrain-constrained radio signal propagation model.
- The overall frequency
and quantity of actor inputs can be adjusted to achieve any quantifiable
loading pattern.
AMATE also provides the distributed test environment necessary to run these tests.
AMATE was developed under a contract with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's prestigious Advanced Technology Program.
About mVerify
mVerify develops and markets automated testing technology necessary for mobile information system reliability and performance. Founded in 2001 by internationally recognized testing guru Robert Binder, mVerify is based in Chicago, Illinois.