Implementation of system testing automatization on computer aided systems for hardware and software

In today's technology, systems, consisting of many modules/units, are getting more complex day by day. Therefore, system testing becomes one of the biggest challenges moved by companies with the purpose to enhance final product quality due to market competition, customer demands, cost-cutting strategies, and restricted response time. System testing is considered to be a crucial step in quality management process that enables testers to verify and validate the application architecture as well as the requirements. System testing strategy can be manual or automated. With a manual strategy, the more traditional approach; testers prepare test suites that they think will best exercise the program. An automated testing strategy tries to remove the tediousness of the process by relying on a software tool that generates test cases. For its many advantages, automated testing strategy is more reliable; therefore, the idea of designing and developing a generic automatized test setup arised. In this paper, it will be mentioned that design and development of a generic test setup to automatize not only hardware testing facilities, but also software testing facilities for computer aided systems, composed of many platform interfaces. Need of stimulated based environments arised, because of high testing costs. Thanks to this test setup involving simulated environments, automated testing becomes more efficient, economical and tenacious. Regarding the computer based systems, general study by the mentioned system test setup with stimulated environment, followings are executed: • Containing hardware interface alternatives • Enabling test many interfaces (software and hardware) • Running system tests in accordance with standard communication protocols. • Using data entered from user interface in message transmit/receive scenarios • Recording occurred scenarios during testing • Reporting planned and occurred scenarios In addition, this modular automatized test setup can be used and modified for similar computer aided system's testing facilities. As a result, with the help of this modular automatized test setup, the followings are aimed to achieve; • Minimized failures based on human error during testing facilities • Detected more failures in early stages • Running testing steps 7x24 continuously • Re-iterating test scenarios frequently • Increased efficiency by reducing test duration and resources.