Twister

2012: Announcement of the Twister platform

On May 17, 2012 the Luxoft company entering into IBS Group announced the new platform of the automated Twister testing opened (open-source), developed especially for the telecommunication sector today.

The Luxoft company offers suppliers of telecommunication equipment, integrators of the systems of collecting and data processing and also service providers of data transmission the distributed, complex open Twister platform for performance improvement in process testing of such devices as routers, switches or the systems of private automatic exchanges.

"The effective automated testing is vital for performance improvement and decrease in current expenses on development, – the Managing director in the field of telecommunication company services of Luxoft said to Doru Mardare. – We found out that only the few solutions can satisfy properly all requirements in the field of telecommunications of the enterprises therefore we decided to develop own solution. Twister is the open platform that can be useful to any developer in this industry".

Twister from Luxoft company is the hybrid solution which integrates in itself the open platform and tool kit of development with a full support for convenience and efficiency. Using the Twister platform engineers can begin testing without delays for reconstruction of separate environments of testing for release of each new product.

"Besides our professional services on development can promote even more operational output of products of our clients to the market and, thus, increase their efficiency", – Mardare adds.

The Twister platform of Luxoft company offers a number of serious advantages:

• High degree of adaptability – Twister represents the innovation platform of the automated testing in a cloud having high degree of flexibility and adaptability. It allows to make testing more cost-efficient and scalable process. A join path of concepts of interaction and the open platform and also thanks to an opportunity to change complexity and to foresee results, Twister increases efficiency of product development.
• Ease of use – Twister promotes considerable cost reduction on training, advanced training of users and product introduction. This platform supports such commonly accepted languages of writing of scenarios as TCL, Python and Perl. Engineers can develop test scripts, using convenient language of writing of scenarios without the need for studying of internal commands. At the same time the intuitive Twister interface promotes simplification of processes of creation, implementation and tracking.
• High extent of control – Users can quickly adjust test scripts, achieving thus more exact results. Users have access to statistics and reporting, can browse parts and historical data. Twister supports widely used instruments of record and reproduction (record and play), for example, of Sikuli, Selenium and TestComplete. Thus, process of testing can be written and reproduced before final testing of the graphical user interface.
• Individual solutions – Luxoft offers services of adaptation for individual preference of the Twister platform and accounting of necessary requirements of this or that project. It is reached by use of two very effective methods: application of open software platforms of offshore model of rendering services.