Azimuth Systems introduced a testing solution focused on user experience and device performance, as well as assessing network conditions.
The Device Automation and Control is a software solution allowing unattended application-specific testing of the user experience on smartphones and other mobile devices in the lab or in the field, according to Azimuth. It is purpose-built for testing LTE devices in terms of pre-launch quality assurance as well as in-market troubleshooting.
“The mobile user experience is driven by a complex series of interactions between networks, devices, services and applications, all of which are tested prior to products being introduced to the market,” the company noted in its announcement on the DAC. “The industry is undertaking an unprecedented number of technology changes at each of these layers, forcing increases in the scope of testing, when industry participants are already faced with competitive pressure to reduce time to market.”
The DAC allows automated voice calls, messaging, data and video streaming in order to test user experience. Its latest release integrates Azimuth’s new Diagnostics and Analytics software, which is an engine that draws on testing data and correlates the metrics of user experience to device performance and network conditions including access, connectivity, PHY/MAC and mobility.
Azimuth said that the tool’s visualization of the data provides “the most relevant snapshot” for pinpointing the necessary information and digging deeper if required – and added that although the DnA was designed specifically for device profiling and benchmarking, it can adapt to specific test requirements like enabling user setting of pass-fail alerts for individual key performance indicators.
The DnA also includes mapping ability for drive testing.