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Network Equipment Testing and QA

Calsoft labs offers testing & QA services for device manufacturers and solution providers in the network and communications space. As the networking industry becomes more competitive globally and the cost-effectiveness becomes crucial to the survival of many product families, outsourcing the testing and QA activities of networking products can help in realizing substantial cost savings. Calsoft labs’s QA services are designed to ensure and maintain the best product quality while keeping in mind time-to-market pressures.

Network Equipment Testing_QA

Service Delivery Models

Calsoft labs offers two primary delivery models for its QA services as described below:

Dedicated Offshore QA Labs

This is Calsoft labs’s most popular QA model where device manufacturers can outsource QA of their products entirely to a dedicated offshore team. The dedicated offshore lab setup is ideal for network device manufacturers since testing such products requires a secure, isolated environment and dedicated infrastructure. Calsoft labs’s CMMi Level 5 rated software quality management processes are adapted to meet individual customer scenarios and to establish the engagement framework. QA teams are formed to meet specific technical qualifications and guidelines as per customer needs in order to ensure the best quality of service.

Outsourced QA Project Teams

Engagements where the product lifecycle is shorter and/or team size is smaller, Calsoft labs offers outsource QA project teams that form an extension of the client engineering team. Calsoft labs offers a well established engagement and quality management framework based on CMMi Level 5 guidelines that helps deliver the best quality of service from its QA project teams.

Testing Capabilities

Calsoft labs has expertise in conducting various testing functions as listed below. These are the typical testing requirements of a network device/solution.

  • Defining QA/Test Strategy
  • Developing Test Plans
  • Test Environment Setting-up
  • Defining Test Cases
  • Unit/Integration Testing
  • Function/Feature Testing
  • Performance/Load & Stress Testing
  • Interoperability & Conformance Testing
  • Regression Testing

Test Automation

Test automation is a key capability that Calsoft labs brings to its customer in delivering higher efficiencies and quality of products. Test automation has become prevalent in the industry with a number of tools available to allow a high degree of automated testing. Calsoft labs has expertise in the following test automation tools and technologies:

  • Expertise in various scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk, Perl, Expect, Python as well as tools such as IxANVL family of test suites and Winrunner, QuickTest and SilkTest.
  • Expertise in various network performance analyzers and testing tools including Ixia, Smartbits, NAI Sniffer, Ethreal, TCPDUMP and SNOOP.

Expertise Areas

Calsoft labs offers in-depth expertise in network and communications equipment and solutions testing. The following are Calsoft labs’s key broad areas of expertise:

  • Routing & Switching Protocols: BGP, RIP, OSPF, IGMP, PIM, STP, RSTP, MSTP etc.
  • Network Security: SSL-VPN, Firewall, IPSec, AAA, Radius, NAP, etc.
  • Convergence: VoIP, SIP, Wifi, Wimax, SoIP, VoD, IPTV, etc.
  • Network Management: SNMP, XML, PBNM, HP OpenView, Nortel Optivity, Ciscoworks, IBM NetView, etc.