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Hundreds of leading IP service development and deployment organizations in the Network operators, product vendors, government agencies, smart grid and the cloud computing and critical infrastructure domains are using the multi-faceted Mu Test Suite within their development and deployment life cycles. By adopting the Mu Test Suite, these vendor and operator organizations realize tremendous improvements in productivity, time to market, cost and quality metrics.
All of these market domains have a set of vendors supplying a set of network operators - both of whom are Mu customers. Both sides of these vendor/operator ecosystems benefit from the sharable test assets that are created to model the services under test and that document the specific test steps that are performed. Any field issues, when they occur, are now reproduced and resolved in a fraction of the time compared to legacy test solutions.
Employing Mu's unique approach to IP service testing throughout the
entire lifecycle, many customers have enjoyed overall 10-fold
improvement in test effectiveness!
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BEFORE
MU
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AFTER
MU
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Average test time of new IP product or service
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>
12 months
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<
1
month
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Approximate
cost of
testing (opex
and capex) one major release
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$4M
(assuming team of 20+ and
costs of tools, labs)
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<
$250K
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Test
coverage on
first release
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<
40%
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>
80%
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Number
of critical
issues within
the first year
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>
25
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<
10
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Time
spent in
solving field
issues
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>
2
man-weeks per issue
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<
2
days per issue
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Improved Testing Accuracy. Using the actual communication traffic of the IP service as
the basis for test creation activities is the only way to accurately model the
communication behavior of the IP service and cater to its unique implementation.
This is particularly critical when custom and proprietary extensions are employed.
Increased Test Coverage. By automatically generating thousands of test cases
that fully exercise the IP service under test using realistic data, test organizations
can achieve significantly increased levels of test coverage.
Reduced Time to Test. The adaptive approach enables the rapid creation of
tests for the scenarios the tester cares about the most.
Unified Testing Approach. By viewing all the testing activities from a holistic
perspective, organizations gain a unified approach to testing. This approach is the first to unify
multiple testing disciplines over a single platform for IP service testing.
Testing efforts can
be greatly accelerated and optimized throughout the lifecycle by employing a
single, multi-faceted platform that supports significant reuse of test assets. The
same test scenario can be leveraged for functional, interoperability, security and
resilience testing as well as across organizations. For example, an operator
could send a set of scenarios to the vendor and the vendor could accurately and
thoroughly tests against these critical scenarios.
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