SUNNYVALE, California, June 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spirent UTS, Mobile Robot Take Mobile Device Test Automation to New 
Level

Spirent Communications plc (http://www.spirent.com), the leader in
wireless network, services and device testing, today announced that it
successfully demonstrated that the Spirent Universal Tool Suite (UTS)
interface architecture can control ServiceForce.com's 
(http://www.serviceforce-com.de) Mobile Robot, a robotic mobile device
operator. Spirent's UTS is a chipset-independent architecture used
industry-wide to automate wireless device testing for UMTS, CDMA and EV-DO
technologies. This collaborative effort adds an extra level of capability to
mobile device testing by making it practical to incorporate test automation
into a tool which physically manipulates mobile devices.

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Rapid growth in the mobile industry puts device vendors under significant
pressure to introduce new products and services quickly. A shortage of
experienced test engineers means that test lab managers are looking for new
ways increase the productivity of existing resources through automation.

"Complex handset test sequences may take many hours to run, hence the
ability to control the handset without operator intervention is vital," said
Gene Kientzy, vice president of Mobile Automation and Multimedia Market
Segment at Spirent. "Some customers prefer to accomplish this effort using a
mechanical approach that simulates user operation of the device. Our recent
proof-of-concept collaboration with ServiceForce.com has shown that, through
integration with Spirent's software test automation suite, mechanical mobile
device testing can be an effective and practical alternative to software
control."

ServiceForce.com employs a robotic approach to the automation of mobile
device testing. The company's Mobile Robot interacts with mobile devices by
simulating actions via a robotic arm and a camera. The robotic arm replicates
key presses that would be made by a user while a mounted camera verifies
success or failure of the action by making image comparisons. These actions
can be repeated indefinitely under stringent test conditions.

"We worked with Spirent to determine the optimal communication mechanisms
between Spirent's test system and our robotic arm," said Gregg Roper,
Business Development manager at ServiceForce.com. "The proof-of-concept
exercise demonstrates that an XML-based Spirent UTS interface provides the
best one-to-one mapping between the two systems, and that this approach can
form the basis for further developments."

Spirent has a portfolio of solutions that make it easy for test labs to
specify, run and analyze results from automated testing of UMTS, CDMA and
EV-DO mobile devices. Through automation, vendors and providers are able to
perform more thorough and extensive testing of their products faster and test
engineers are able to focus their skills on higher value tasks such as
troubleshooting and results interpretation.

About ServiceForce.com

ServiceForce.com GmbH represents more than 20 years experience in testing
and product validation for customers of ITS, automotive and other industries.
Today the German company offers as well test services as test automation
solutions predominantly to the regional markets, e.g. to big companies of
ITC. Approved by the success at leading German network operators, company's
management plans to expand test automation solutions nation widely within the
next two years. http://www.serviceforce-com.de

About Spirent Communications plc

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