HSTC402
DEVICE-DRIVER COMPATIBILITY TESTING
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DEVICE-DRIVER COMPATIBILITY TESTING
Situation
Challenge
A leading Operating System vendor with thousands of dependent third-party devices and device drivers
Compatibility testing to cover thousands of devices in a matter of few months
A new major OS release involving important internal changes coming up within months
How could the company put in place scalable model to test devices with each new OS release in future?
Harbinger Solution A representative sample of devices was short-listed in consultation with the company A test laboratory of machines with an installed base of different hardware platforms and debuggers Test design and execution strategy that covered different testing scenarios including: Device and driver management Basic and extended functionality Power management Applets and utilities
Benefits
BOTTOM LINE
Significant amount of actionable data generated through coverage of wide range of popular devices Data provided valuable insights into changes that would break the new OS release functionality
Test strategy enabled better understanding of direction that further device compatibility testing should take
HSTC402
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Company was able to reliably test multiple devices and put many more devices through the test execution plan for one of the most significant OS releases in its history