Net-O₂ Test-for-Hire offering delivers significant efficiencies to embedded, networking and communication solution providers, by leveraging on its established ATTEST test infrastructure, a ready-to-use exhaustive library of tests, a well-equipped test lab and an expert testing team.

Net-O₂ Test-for-Hire covers a full range of testing needs:

• End-to-End testing

• Feature testing

• Performance testing

• User Interface testing

• Application testing

Net-O₂ Test-for-Hire is customizable to suit your unique needs, enabling you to better manage the testing lifecycle of products, while delivering greater ROI and flexibility, without compromising quality.

The type of devices verified as part of the Net-O₂ Test-for-Hire offering include switches, routers, access devices, firewalls, IDS/IPS, WLAN APs etc., which are deployed for applications in data-centers, enterprises, industrial networks and service provider networks.

End-to-end testing ensures a thorough verification of the device's capabilities. It is performed immediately after development is completed and typically consists of the following activities:

• Test Strategy Definition/Test Planning

• Acceptance Testing

• Comprehensive Testing (Functional, Performance, Scalability, Interoperability etc.)

• User Document review

Feature testing ensures that each feature is implemented as per the functional specification. This could involve testing of all the features or just a sub-set of features. The testing typically involves the following:

• Functionality Testing

• Feature Interaction Testing

• Boundary Condition Testing

• Vulnerability Testing

• Stress Testing

• Stability Testing

Performance testing is done to measure the device performance metrics and compare against the performance requirement of the software. This testing measures performance metrics such as latency, throughput, address cache capacity, address learning rate etc.

User Interface testing verifies that the user interface is implemented as given in the User Interface.

Design Specification and typically consists of the following activities:

• Testing for valid and invalid inputs

• Compatibility test with different browsers (IE, Mozilla, etc.) on different OS (Windows,  Mac, Linux, etc.)

• Functionality verification through user interface

• Vulnerability Testing

Application testing aims to verify the device functionality with the real-time applications and could cover the testing of the device in real-time deployment scenario. Application testing could be performed for environments such as:

• Enterprise

• Data Centre

• Carrier Ethernet

• Broadband Access

• Industrial Ethernet

• WLAN

For more details on these testing processes, and to learn how Net-O₂ can enhance your return on investment (ROI) on your testing investments, contact us.