Degree project in Communication Systems Second level, 30.0 HEC

As companies fight for market share whoever is able to bring products to market faster has an advantage over their competitors. Therefore it is absolutely essential to constantly evaluate and optimize processes to achieve shorter time-to-market for products. These optimizations have to be carried out in all parts of a company. This thesis describes one such attempt made by a Swedish telecommunication vendor focused on enabling a resource management system to gain a greater understanding of the resources available during testing. This system manages all of the hardware utilized by the users, software testers, within one particular part of the organization and aids users by automatically converting the information stored in its database into a configuration file that will later be used in the testing framework’s execution environment. Unfortunately, the current version of this resource management system lacks semantic understanding of the information necessary to automatically generate the configuration file, leaving a rather large part of the configuration file to be manually entered by the testers, a rather time-consuming task. The inability to completely automate the process means that the testing process is slower, mor