JDS Optimisation And SDM Test Automation

Abstract

Automation is one of the key area on which todays IT companies are focusing on. In the field of software product testing companies prefer automated testing instead of man- ual testing. The reason behind using automated tasks is, it requires less human efforts and provides more efficiency. The main aim of this project is to design and develop test cases for SDM and automate the testing process. Before doing test automation for SDM, there is a need of creating virtual environment which can provide a set of virtual devices for SDM testing. A simulated network environment can be very useful for testing purpose. As it reduces the use of real devices in testing, the cost spend by company on testing of a device manager is also reduced. In simulated network, device is not a physical entity but it is only the database of real device. So this virtual device can function as a real device without being physically present. JDS was developed with the goal of providing a virtual setup of devices to SDM. It supports all the headend devices with smaller database. But for larger device it becomes non-responsive. It has some major issues with larger devices APEX1000 and APEX3000. Even a single APEX 3000 was not running in JDS with full configuration. JDS optimization and improvement is much needed in order to test SDM for all the headend devices. Along with this issue there is one more issue associated with JDS, It is not organized as a project. JDS is having a single folder with shell scripts, java classes, proto _les and database. This project is focusing on providing support for apex device, reduce the insertion time of apex device to database, create a single JAR for JDS, design and automate test cases for SDM.As a result of optimization, the setup time of test environment is reduced and JDS can run more than one APEX 3000 device at a time. And we can create simulated environment using single JAR file.