Eurofins Digital Testing to Demonstrate World’s First HbbTV App Automation Solution at IBC 2015
Bristol, UK(09 Sep 2015)
Eurofins Digital Testing will demonstrate their HbbTV app automation solution for the first time at IBC 2015. This innovative solution can automate any HbbTV application completely unmodified, with no additional hardware, using industry-standard Selenium test scripts.
The HbbTV ecosystem is evolving fast, with most European iDTVs supporting HbbTV as standard and global deployments driving a large number of new HbbTV apps to be developed. Unlike other consumer platforms such as PC, Android and iOS, HbbTV devices have limited browser implementations that don’t support standard HTML app testing tools. With no viable HbbTV emulation available, HbbTV app testers and developers resort to time-consuming and unreliable manual testing on multiple TV devices. Eurofins Digital Testing’s HbbTV app automation solution solves these problems and enables test driven app development as well as cross platform and regression testing.
As HbbTV is an open standard typically deployed in retail, horizontal market HbbTV apps need to run on a large number of disparate platforms, meaning that HbbTV app developers and operators need to test on an ever-increasing number of devices. Traditional manual testing is no longer a robust, economic or scalable solution. Developers and testers can write Selenium scripts to control the HbbTV app through remote control events and verify correct app output data. Compared to test automation which relies on IR blasters and video capture, this approach avoids erroneous test failures and uses scripts that are easier to maintain as the app evolves.
Andy Hickman, CEO, UK and Hong Kong said:
“For the first time, HbbTV apps can be automated without expensive specialist automation hardware” he added that “the Eurofins HbbTV automated app solution helps solve interoperability issues and saves app developers both time and cost.”
The HbbTV app automation solution will be demonstrated at IBC 2015 in Amsterdam, 11-15th September, on stand 5:B17. To arrange a demonstration, contact Eurofins Digital Testing at digitaltesting@eurofins.com.
Editors Notes:
Eurofins Digital Testing is the world’s leading end-to-end Quality Assurance (QA) service provider for Digital TV Operators and device testing specialists, operating globally with test lab facilities in the UK, Belgium and Hong Kong. They provide specialised on-site test resources, testing tools and services to validate digital media delivery systems and device conformance for multiple standards and operators across the world. Eurofins Digital Testing was formed from the merger of Digital TV Labs and Testronic Labs and is part of the Eurofins Group. Eurofins has a network of more than 200 laboratories in 36 countries and has over 16,000 employees worldwide. Eurofins Digital Testing delivers complete testing solutions to manufacturers, broadcasters, operators and related media and device supply chains, covering terrestrial, satellite, cable, OTT and IPTV delivery. This includes conformance and certification testing for standards and operator regimes, as well as the provision of bespoke media delivery solutions.
For more information, please visit www.eurofins-digitaltesting.com