Hearing noises in your backyard?

November 5, 2009 by kowsik

So a friend of mine installed solar in his house and he kept hearing voices in the backyard. Turns out his smart meter was using SIP to call back home and report various things. Okay, I was kidding, but there’s something to be said about this.

IP services are colliding and converging more rapidly than ever. Amazon’s EC2 is as much an infrastructure play as it is cloud computing. Critical Infrastructure is as much SCADA as it is an IP service. When people wonder at our diverse customer list, my only answer to them is that all of those customers build products with an IP stack and run services off of them. If you think that cloud computing is blurring the edge of an enterprise, IP services have no notion of infrastructure or application. They are all (hopefully) working together to deliver the application that the end users need.

Now testing such a thing is insanely complex and people spend countless amounts of time and money to solve this problem. If you look at the way legacy infrastructure test tool vendors have built their testing solutions, they typically have dedicated teams to build test cases for Routing, VoIP, IPTV, LTE, IPv6, etc. And then you look at this smart meter deal and you wonder, isn’t that just broken?

We recently launched Mu Studio as a solution for testing IP services. Our insight is that there needs to be a fundamental break through in testing these IP services that span domains, have no edge and act like an enterprise application. Mu Studio rapidly converts your packet captures into stateful test cases that can be used for Functional, Interop, Security and Resilience testing. This means while the product itself is domain agnostic, it adapts itself automatically and naturally to your service by deconstructing and stitching transactions out of your packet captures. With proven methodologies like Data Driven Testing, you can finally think about testing in terms of spreadsheets, inputs and outcomes.

So next time you hear voices in your backyard and wonder how to test IP services, check out Mu Studio.

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