Out-of-the-Box Software Testing Solution for Android-Based Devices
In today's fast-paced mobile device development environment, products seem to enter and leave the market in a heartbeat. No matter what development methodology is used, most product teams are challenged with keeping up an accelerating product life cycle. Regardless of the ever-shortening development window, product quality cannot be sacrificed.
Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) helps you successfully deliver your innovative device to market, while meeting these key market imperatives: quality, timeliness, cost, and compliance.
A Powerful Testing Framework for Android
Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) can help determine compliance, measure performance, and prove stability for mobile devices running Android. This test tool is designed to accept the results of a build, execute a selection of thousands of Wind River–authored tests and tens of thousands of existing open source scripts, archive the relevant artifacts, and provide the results in a single report, all in a completely automated way.
The framework acts as a meta-test execution tool for commercial mobile Linux platforms like Android. Each individual test framework, test, or application is encapsulated within a "wrapper" script that is executed by FAST during the test run. This wrapper allows the test to be abstracted across multiple product platforms. FAST can easily be integrated with proprietary test suites, test suites from third parties, or open source test suites This results in lower development costs, quality improvements, and a reduction in testing cycle time.
Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing Overview
Add Value to Your Device Development Process
Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) is more than just another automated testing tool. Because it can incorporate your existing tests and test frameworks and includes compliance test suites, FAST delivers measurable value to your development and QA teams:
- Helps ensure you meet your device delivery target
- Improves software and system quality
- Speeds the software development process
- Proves compliance with external standards such as Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS)
- Reduces costs in software testing
- Reduces software errors entering into the QA process
- Delivers your device according to your customers' specifications and requirements
- Increases code coverage during the testing process
Flexible, Extensible, and Automated
Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) is a powerful testing framework that offers flexibility, robust performance, and portability:
- Uses either web-based user interface or command-line user interface
- Includes full Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS)
- Adds a payload before running tests and removes it after test to maintain a clean image for the next test run
- Reboots or cycles device power before or after test
- Accepts existing legacy tests, open source tests, and Wind River–authored tests
- Includes new tests that you author or that Wind River creates for you
- Transfers tests and test suites to new product platforms with no changes required to the actual tests
- Parses and stores results in a MySQL database for access by virtually any powerful reporting tool
