Input requirements needed to produce an operational profile for a new telecommunications system

Author

Sandfoss, Raymond V. ; Meyer, Steven A.

Author_Institution

AT&T-NCS-OTC, Cincinnatti, OH, USA

fYear

35735

fDate

2-5 Nov1997

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

39

Abstract

This paper describes our practical experiences in developing an operational profile for a telecommunications system given little existing knowledge about the maintenance/provisioning process and the system´s environment. The specific system under test is a high availability, real-time system used to provision, maintain, and forecast network hardware for AT&T´s emerging technologies. The system requirements needed to derive the various system operating modes, together with the modes´ operational profiles are discussed. We also demonstrate how reliability objectives and failure intensity objectives can be defined and subsequently tested under different automated test scenarios for these different system modes

Keywords

program testing; real-time systems; software maintenance; software reliability; telecommunication computing; automated test scenarios; failure intensity objectives; input requirements; network hardware; operational profile; program test; provisioning process; real-time system; software maintenance; software reliability; system operating modes; system requirements; telecommunications system; Automatic testing; Design engineering; Maintenance engineering; Reliability engineering; Software design; Software reliability; Sun; System testing; Topology; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reliability Engineering - Case Studies, 1997. Proceedings., The Eighth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8221-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSSRE.1997.637846

Filename

637846