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The article describes a testing approach and reports on the use of
this approach to test two new versions of the TRACS system. TRACS is
a system designed for use by a telecommunications
company to monitor services used by its large business
customers, to identify network problems prior to service
degradation, and to respond to discovered problems on a
proactive basis. The original version of the TRACS system was
tested using system and cluster tests. Several problems,
however, resulted from this approach. Functional dynamic
testing of application-specific clusters was retained in a
revised approach to testing, as well as a tool to support class
testing, the Automated Class Exerciser (ACE) tool used to
execute the cluster test case.
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