CrossTest Demonstrates Market Acceptance & Solid Customer Traction

April 6, 2009 — Several customers across different industries (network equipment manufacturers, aerospace and defense, and industrial automation) embraced CrossTest’s Test Automation solution for their mission critical projects. A few of the visionary enterprise customers who have deployed CrossTest are Cisco Systems (network equipment) and Northrop-Grumman (aerospace and defense).

Telecommunications

Cisco Systems embraced CrossTest within their high-end router QA group. Using CrossTest they were able to verify that error checking and reporting within the router software worked as expected. Cisco also used CrossTest’s code coverage feature to ensure robustness of the code through adequate testing.

Aerospace

Northrop-Grumman automated their test infrastructure using CrossTest to design and run their unit tests, and deploy automated regression tests, resulting in significant savings in the test cycles.

CrossTest 3.0 Shipping Now

Based on customer feedback, several new enhancements have been incorporated into the CrossTest solution. CrossTest 3.0 supports:

• Coverage analysis for host and target based testing
• Team based HTML result repository
• Project refresh
• Fully automated cross-platform regression testing

Coverage analysis

CrossTest now supports coverage analysis on the host and target for both C & C++ languages. Coverage analysis is provided for:

• Function coverage: reports whether each function or procedure is invoked. It is useful during preliminary testing to assure at least some coverage in all areas of the software.
• Statement coverage: reports whether each executable statement is encountered.
• Branch coverage: reports whether each branch has been taken or not during the execution of the tests.

HTML test reports

CrossTest 3.0 lets the user generate HTML test reports that provide a detailed analysis of the results of a test run (Tested functions, Pass/Fail Results, Code Coverage results, etc). Test reports can be viewed using Mozilla or IE browsers.

Project refresh

CrossTest now supports refreshing projects’ source code. When the user’s source code is changed, CrossTest determines the impact on the test suite and, when possible, updates the tests on behalf of the user. CrossTest thus integrates very well with the application development life cycle in an enterprise.

Fully automated cross-platform regression testing

CrossTest can now be controlled through a command line interface and integrated into build systems or test environments. CrossTest can also be called from within a shell script file.

CrossTest 3.0 supports C, C++ applications; supports Windows, Linux and Solaris host environments across multiple processors; and is target environment agnostic.

Customer Benefits

The coverage analysis, HTML test reports and batch mode regression testing features help the customers greatly improve the quality of their applications. Customers benefit from faster time-to-market and lower software lifecycle costs owing to the level of testing automation achieved with these features. Further, features like Project Refresh integrate testing tightly with the application development life cycle.

About CrossTest

CrossTest redefines quality and economics for device software application testing. CrossTest offers Test Automation Systems for device software applications that empower software teams to build quality in, instead of rooting bugs out. The CrossTest solution automates the tedium of testing and integrates the various steps in testing — test design, test generation, test execution, regression testing, and results analysis. The benefits are improved quality, faster time-to-market and lower software lifecycle costs