Enhancement of Automation Test Framework for LTE systems

A phenomenal growth in the wireless industry, both in terms of mobile technology and its subscribers, has been witnessed in last few years. There has been a clear shift from fixed to mobile cellular telephony, especially since the turn of the century. With all the technological advances, and the simultaneous existence of the 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks, the impact of services on network efficiency have become even more critical. Many more designing scenarios have developed with not only 2G networks but also with the evolution of 2G to 2.5G or even to 3G networks. LTE communication systems has different features like handover, carrier aggregation, and change in the transmission power etc. The LTE system which contains these features can be tested for different scenarios. Testing the different scenarios with respect to different features in the network will help indicate and improve the different problems present in the scenarios. Automation testing provides logs for every test scenario run quickly and efficiently when compared to the manual labor and time required to test each scenario manually. The automation framework supports automation test scripts which runs to generate logs for different test cases. The objective of the project is to enhance the Automation Test Framework that supports the automation scripts to obtain the results of the test cases in quick and user friendly manner. The automation test scripts run generates logs for each test case. The goal of the project is to reduce the manual activity required for analyzing the results of each test case every time by obtaining the results of all test cases in one space.