]> http://www.openclovis.org OpenClovis today announces release of Test Automation product - <strong>OpenClovis TAE</strong> OpenClovis tackles a major void in testing of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) building blocks that comprise of both hardware and software elements for distributed computing platform. As Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMS) and Network Equipment Providers (NEP) explore and move towards standardized, Service Availability Forum, middleware with COTS building blocks, they are faced with system integration and testing of their system with value add applications and services. Engineering organizations are challenged with having to develop test procedures and processes for their middleware components and their applications, as an end to end system that, can be successfully deployed with a known quality and confidence. They have to ensure that real customer use cases and fully integrated application ready system has been fully tested by their test teams within the organization. This usually is a significant effort on their part to integrate components that they have little or no involvement in developing and can be a major increase on their R&D costs and an increased time for product shipments resulting in delayed revenue. OpenClovis has recognized this need through working with new equipment vendors, as well as tier-1 TEM’s and provides a very comprehensive solution for both COTS building blocks and application software. Another major key benefit this solution provides, for the TEM’s and NEP’s, is the ability to test different vendor COTS configurations very rapidly for compatibility, scalability and performance. This satisfies another key benefit of "<strong>application portability</strong>" by migrating to COTS middleware and hardware platform <strong><a href="http://www.openclovis.org/project/tae">OpenClovis Test Automation Environment (TAE)</a></strong> Openclovis is proud to offer a new product that provides a major building block, for your product test environment. This includes the infrastructure and ready built-in test cases for SAF AMS compliance and verification. It also, provides the ability to add custom test cases around your product and capabilities. Shortening test development cycle and adopting an automated test environment from day one. OpenClovis TAE is specifically designed for test automation of large scale complex distributed network elements based on computing platform such as AdvancedTCA or other COTS-based servers. <ul>Developed for testing complex multi-processor, distributed systems, clusters</ul> <ul>Developed for helping not just SQA staff, but also software managers and software developers</ul> <ul>Target for full dev lifecycle: UT, CT, DVT, SVT, Regression</ul> <ul>Intuitive Web-based historical reporting server provided for detailed test result matrix and log data access.</ul> <ul>Easy-to-access postmortem data helping software engineers to quickly diagnose test failures</ul> <ul>Very high level test case programming environment, using Python programming language. OpenClovis will release Python interfaces for ASP/SAF middleware in upcoming release 3.1 which provides easy interfaces to middleware in TAE or other python-based test applications</ul> <ul>Developed in conjunction with the OpenClovis ASP middleware, but can be used for testing non-ASP systems as well</ul> <ul>Easily configurable test fixture based on XML files to execute same set of test cases across multiple platforms</ul> As part of OpenClovis TAE, customer can also get over <strong>2500 ready-to-deploy test case</strong> for COTS components. Please <a href="mailto:sales@openclovis.com">contact us</a> for more information and also visit <a href="http://www.openclovis.org/project/tae">online material and sample test cases</a> en