High-Tech Music Box

Magical Digital Music Box is a modern music box - it is a multifunctional media player that is combined of CD-player, integrated 120 GB hard memory disk, booster, stereo columns and high-tech subwoofer. The Digital Music Box has an elegant design and a very simple, user-friendly user interface.

The Magical Digital Music Box allows you to save over 1,500 music CDs. Keeping your favorite music on built-in hard drive allows for more convenient enjoyment of your favorite music. In order to simplify and make it friendly to organize storage of the music there is developed "CD organization" system. You need simply to insert the disk and the Digital Music Box will automatically capture Cover Art, Artist Name, CD Title, Song Titles.

You are offered the widest choice of sound tracks stored in the on-line library capable of keeping over 750,000 songs.

Digital Music Box allows for 100 radio stations access - and now the choice is yours - from Baroque to Blues, Big Band to Bluegrass, with Digital Music Box Radio, there's no such thing as too picky.

Using the Digital Music Box you will experience unrivaled easiness of exporting your favorite music to portable music players via USB 2.0 interface.

Moreover, Digital Music Box allows to write music to a CD, both saved from an audio disc and purchased at an on-line shop.

To simplify the control of the Digital Music Box there is used Wireless Touch-Screen Remote which, apart to simple and user-friendly interface, allows for playing the music, buying tracks in an on-line store, create playlists and many other things while not moving from your sofa in a living room.

Our Team set to testing the Digital Music Box in the mid 2004. At first the application was tested on server part emulators and remote control emulators. At that stage, the client targeted us at functional and regression tests performance, user-friendliness interface testing, writing and playing the test cases. Sometimes, when needed to reveal crucial malfunctioning of the application operation, we used unit testing. During this stage, in order to provide for reliability and increase efficiency of the testing, our Team performed automation of the basic functionality. For this purpose we chose TestCompete testing tool. The deeper covering of test cases by the automation scripts was not possible due to the application being written in Java developer environment which restricts autotesting applications (and TestComplete is not an exception) to call Java classes and invisible objects directly.

During the second stage we performed the application testing directly on the Digital Music Box device. We went on performing functional and regression testing, but to that there was added system, load and stress testing. We also maintained some portion of automated testing, though constricted, which we applied mainly for data input/output speed-up that were needed in extended quantity to perform load testing (this we implemented using remote control emulator run under Windows OS and TestComplete autotesting tool).

During the second stage the Client asked us to add acceptance testing; for that acceptance testing we developed respective test cases. As obstacles at that stage we can name lack of specifications for the major part of functionality. Documenting was effected mainly "according to Client". In the circumstances, for the convenience of all Team members there was accumulated a custom knowledge base build and maintained by means of WackoWiki content management system (CMS) that contained all available documentation as well as specific data for working with Digital Music Box hardware.

Due to the Digital Music Box project is not the QArea own development project, communication with the external client was organized mainly via e-mail; discussion of instant issues was made via IM ICQ. As bug tracker our Team used the Client offered TestTrack bug tracker while documentation was held in client regular Confluence CRM. We also reported systematically (with daily, acceptance, weekly and monthly reports).

The project was delivered successfully in the mid 2006. All the Team QA engineers that were involved in this project proved to be professionals in QA that performed their tasks professionally and timely.

About Bug Huntress QA Lab: The company was founded in 2001 as an independent software development and testing company. Wide experience in QA gained by the team and high demand on software testing services transformed the QA department into a new brand - Bug Huntress QA Lab (www.bughuntress.com). Bug Huntress QA Lab in cooperation with its QArea owner-company has developed a variety of cross-platform software solutions for business, security, healthcare and gaming industry. It is also known for its testing automation software for handheld devices.