Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, introduced an Android test development kit designed to assist in the validation of the device user experience by reproducing human interactions to test user interfaces. Wind River UX Test Development Kit is an Eclipse-based test-authoring environment enabling the rapid creation of automated test scripts for Android devices, applications and browser-based web content. The automated execution of these real-world tests can replace a significant amount of manual testing and reduce testing time.

“Among the motives for why consumers return their mobile devices, a top reason is a disappointing user experience. By using breakthrough Wind River innovation to construct efficient testing tools to develop reliable applications and fulfilling user experiences, operators and device manufacturers can create greater customer satisfaction to improve the bottom line,” said Cristina Segal, general manager of mobile Linux testing at Wind River. “Wind River is changing the user experience test paradigm. Wind River UX Test Development Kit tests are reusable across hardware configuration and software versions, helping to decrease the effort to build test scripts for new use cases by as much as 70 percent. With access to automatic tests that mimic human behavior during software testing, developers can dramatically reduce testing cycles and time-to-market.”

UX Test Development Kit automated tests manipulate the device like a real-world user by interacting with applications through the user interface. For example, a quality assurance engineer can automate scenarios to test the user experience when interacting with graphic interface elements such as dragging items or typing entries on a physical or virtual keyboard. Unlike legacy user interface testing solutions, the same test script can be used for Android devices with different hardware characteristics, allowing the quality assurance team to maintain the same test-case database whether the device under test is a smartphone, tablet or any other Android device. Test scripts authored using UX Test Development Kit are fully managed and automatically executed using Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) for Android, a comprehensive automated software testing solution for Android-based devices.

UX Test Development Kit includes abstract tests for standard Android applications such as browser, camera, contacts, media player and e-mail as well as sample test scripts for Android Market applications such as Google Maps, Facebook and Twitter. UX Test Development Kit also allows the rapid creation of test scripts that interact with HTML5 applications and web pages through the native Android browser. To facilitate troubleshooting, UX Test Development Kit tests also run an advanced debugging mechanism to track and more readily identify software issues.

A video demonstration of Wind River UX Test Development Kit can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXMiit4Abo .

Wind River also launched the latest version of Wind River FAST for Android that can be used to test any Android-based device. Wind River FAST for Android offers new features that deliver easier handling and greater insights into the devices under test. Key features include the following:

– FAST Android Score, a benchmarking index that assesses a device’s performance via a quick comparison against Android reference devices, rapidly generates a score from a series of tests, incorporating the key performance driving components of an Android device, without having to run the entire set of FAST tests.

– Easy-to-use wizard tools allow quick board configuration and test creation.

– Monitoring features illustrate CPU usage, memory load and power consumption.

– Expanded set of test assets created to test battery life, update mechanism for Android, Stagefright media framework and additional audio and video media capabilities.

A video demonstration of the latest features for Wind River FAST for Android is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmwYnz92XkM . Additional information about Wind River FAST for Android can be found at http://www.windriver.com/products/mobile-linux/fast.html .

According to a report in EE Times Asia, Wind River reveals the Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) for Android -based devices.

Customizable for different silicon architectures, it can work across any device manufacturer or operator in need of testing Android software stacks. The test solution claims to streamline and automate the software testing process, thus reducing time and cost to develop Android devices, while improving software quality and stability, and helping users verify and prove compliance with Android Compatibility Test Suite, or CTS.

Targeted for operators, device manufacturers, independent software vendors and silicon providers who need to test Android-based devices, FAST reduces the time and costs associated with testing software by automating thousands of heterogeneous tests and then consolidating the results into a single uniform database, easily accessible using virtually any reporting tool. Thus, manufacturers can focus efforts and resources on developing features that will differentiate their mobile devices from the competition and verifying Android compliancy, instead of spending a majority of their development time on testing.

FAST tests span a wide range of categories including graphics and boot-time, interoperability for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, telephony and board support package tests. The company’s test library provides coverage of tested code from low level, middleware and up to the application level.

For more information please visit EE Times Asia

Marwein is a test tool for html pages.

It offers a graphical interface to create an run test cases, as well as a “batch mode” for running tests via a shell script. Marwein is based on the Httpunit library.

Each test case consists of several “tasks” that are executed one after the other. Each task represents either a user interaction with the web page (e.g. ClickButton, FollowLink, FillForm) or some kind of test (e.g. RegexpMatcher, PageCheker).

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How often you see something that is worth sharing? It can be related to work as well as entertainment, between friends and colleagues. When you feel like showing things you see, don’t hesitate to use Jet Screenshot, it won’t take more than a few moments.

In any type of communication, it is important to convey information quickly and easily for both the sender and the recipient. Jet Screenshot will be a valuable helper making snaps exchange as easy as pie.

System requirements: Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 or Windows Vista

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The ITSM Excellerator provides tactical tools and deliverables to help accelerate ITIL based service support & delivery assessments, measurement activities and improvement initiatives.

The ITSM Excellerator adds immediate value to IT organizations by providing pre-built best practice materials that assist technology professionals with rapid process improvement, increasing service quality and reducing technology costs. Specific guidance found in the ITSM Excellerator includes:

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RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users.

The RT platform has been under development since 1996, and is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, IT managers, developers and marketing departments at thousands of sites around the world.

Written in object-oriented Perl, RT is a high-level, portable, platform independent system that eases collaboration within organizations and makes it easy for them to take care of their customers.

RT manages key tasks such as the identification, prioritization, assignment, resolution and notification required by enterprise-critical applications including project management, help desk, NOC ticketing, CRM and software development.

RT is used by Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and development organizations worldwide.

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The Simple Development Library (SimpleDevLib) is a collection of packages and utilities aimed towards assisting software development in Tcl and [incr Tcl], the popular object oriented extension to Tcl.

SimpleDevLib provides essential elements for good software engineering and/or medium to big projects development, such as a framework for regression testing, homogeneous, easily parseable, fully introspectable code organization, a type system, a framework for regression testing and object orientation.

SimpleDevLib is written in pure Tcl itself, so that no compilation is needed to run it on Unix, Windows or Macintosh environments.

SimpleDevLib is distributed under the BSD license. In essence, this license allows you to do whatever you want with the software provided the copyright notices are left untouched.

For a thorough, but concise, introduction to The Simple Development Library, the reader is referred to The Simple Development Library white paper.

PQMPlus™ is a productivity/quality measurement system developed for software development project managers and measurement specialists.

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