Hy914, an electronic equipment test system

The article introduced the needs for thorough testing of electronic equipment with comparison between manual testing and automatic testing. An electronic equipment test system -HY914- which was used to test one network communication system was discussed in detail. HY914, which is able to do both black box testing and white box testing, is a integrated automatic test platform that provides rich features including test script, function testing, load testing, abnormal behaviour checking, application status monitoring, hardware resource monitoring and etc. HY914 also provides capability for doing complicated testing in short period and it helps to cut both labour cost and hours spent greatly. In between testing of the network communication system, engineers found and fixed a lot of software bugs such as device hanging, downgrading of voice quality and etc. By just doing minor changes of the test scripts, HY914 also provides the capability for users to test the device with minimum effort before a new software version is released. HY914 is designed to be used as a generic test platform and automatic testing of various products can be done by customising the test scripts, platform virtual machine, and virtual device driver. (authors)