Case Study – Testing of Network Health Monitor product
This case study outlines our experience in a product related to monitoring of network resources using SNMP, HTTP protocols, where end users are typically Data centers.
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About the Client:
- One of the leading Network Management solution providers.
About the Product
- Network monitoring system to check the health of resources within the network
- Monitors various activities in a Network
- Provides periodic data on different components of an application/Network
- Provides statistical view on the Health of Network
- SDK provided to add one’s own monitors
Product Usage
- In Real-time business scenarios like stock markets, to analyze performance of various servers with scalable business
- In uptime of Network that can be linked to productivity
- MIS in terms of Resource utilization in an organization.
Where Oak Systems stepped in
- Product to be Tested thoroughly under Unix/Solaris environment
- Additionally, Functional Testing was also to be done under Windows environment
Modus operandi
- Determine Health report requirements
- Select servers and attributes for monitoring
- Prioritize the server test viz. OS, Routers/Switches first, APP server, DB in the order
- Install the server
- Configure the servers
- Apply monitor test cases for each component
- Simulate server action wherever necessary
- Collect monitor data and check for correctness for each instance
- Verify if health report is OK
Project Statistics
Duration: 6 months
Test team size: 4
Effort spent: 24 person months
No. of Test cases executed : 2500+
Environment : Windows, Unix/Solaris, Host of Servers
Our Value add
- Rapidly put together a team of testers lead by a TL
- Completed the testing in time with alternate strategies so that the product could be released to the market in time (Testing of around 700 monitors)
- Suggested some changes to the product (like centralized agent concept)