Ericsson's 4G base stations tested with QuickCheck
17 November, 2010Speaking in front of 300 delegates at the Stockholm
Erlang User Conference in Stockholm, Graham Crowe from Ericsson
described how QuickCheck has been used in the development of Ericsson's
new LTE ("4G") radio base stations. Graham discovered QuickCheck while
working with Ericsson's 3G base station, at a time when a new test
environment based on Erlang was just being introduced. He was impressed
with Erlang's concurrency--perfect for testing a highly concurrent
product like a base station--and also with QuickCheck. When he joined
the LTE project in early 2007, he built the Generic Test Environment for
the project--for white box, black box, and load testing--with QuickCheck
specifically in mind. Graham emphasized the importance of generating
test cases from a specification, rather than limiting testing to
particular scenarios, calling QuickCheck "the testing of the future".
We at Quviq are happy to be able to help Ericsson deliver quality for
the new generation mobile networks!
Graham's slides can be found
here.
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