Fanfare has announced the latest release of iTest, the company’s flagship test automation product.
iTest 3.4 is a comprehensive testing solution for device and heterogeneous system testing. Fanfare says it offers significant improvements to core iTest functionality, and new features such as the industry’s first Virtual Testbed (VTB) capabilities. VTB delivers considerable new value to testing organizations by enabling testers to build test cases before devices exist, beginning the quality process months earlier than before. Testers can also leverage a VTB for test development by using virtual replicas of real devices and costly test equipment. As a result, organizations can trim future capital expenditures by better utilizing their lab assets and infrastructure, improve tester productivity while offline or working remotely, and enable earlier testing, accelerating time to market for new products and services, according to the company.
New features include:
- Scheduling and Test Suites – Test management is streamlined in 3.4 by allowing users to quickly identify and group multiple tests as a test suite and schedule them to run at a certain time or on a recurring basis, further accelerating the rate and efficiency of testing. This feature is available in iTest Team and iTest Enterprise editions.
- New and Improved Integrations – Layer 2-3 and 4-7 testing is enhanced with support for Ixia’s IxNetwork and Spirent Avalanche. The Avalanche integration provides a rich user interface inside of iTest for users to interact directly with Avalanche. For users of iTest’s HPQC integration, there is now batch publishing of tests and reports to HPQC. This optional module is available for $2,000 each per year.
