A systematic approach in driving the model for optimization and e ciency improvement in Ingredients and Platform Validation for Intel Client Platforms(2012-13)

Abstract

Today, the complexity of the computer has grown, with processors and chipsets incor- porating millions of the transistors and compatible with dozens of operating system, hundreds of platform components and thousands of hardware devices and software applications. Thus complexity of a platform has created an astronomical number of possible test cases for a platform level validation Process. The coverage includes interoperability with many devices, operating system and components thus raising the number of the test cases to near in nity. Compatibility is also a major issue with all components as platform must be compatible with thousands of third party components. Clearly, there is no way to test each and every possible combination. Validation test plan must include only set of test cases that are important and can be covered during speci ed time line because Time to market is crucial factor for any product. Also Test plan must be complete enough to achieve better quality product as the aim of the ingredient and platform validation is to achieve Quality, Compatibility and Reliability across all PC platforms. In this thesis report, our proposal is to de ne a systematic approach to achieve opti- mization and e ciency improvement by considering overall validation process , Test content optimization and Test content Automation for Ingredients and Platform val- idation (for Intel client platforms) so as to achieve better Quality end products.