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Speaker Background Venkat Ramakrishnan |
Testing Internetworking devices and Network Management Applications Venkat Ramakrishnan — Test Architect — IBM |
Venkat Ramakrishnan is a Test Architect with IBM. Venkat did his B.E. in Computer Science Engineering at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering affiliated to Chennai University, and graduated in 1992. Venkat has 13 years of experience in testing. Venkat started his career as a development and maintenance engineer working in C programming language. After he got an opportunity to work in a test team as a consultant at cisco Systems, Venkat continued to build on his career in testing. Venkat has devised test strategies for complex features and solutions, performance, reliability, interoperability, and standards based products. Venkat has considerable experience in testing internetworking devices (cisco to be specific) and network management applications that manage internetworking devices. Venkat’s professional goals are to continue providing effective test strategy and test architecture solutions, while expanding his horizons in the various technologies associated with the products and solutions that he works with. Venkat also envisions on working as a project manager for test related initiatives. |
This workshop will look at the specifics and challenges involved in testing internetworking devices, SNMP, and the network management applications that manage the internetworking devices. Special emphasis is placed on the device testing itself rather than internetworking or its routing protocols, as testing and managing the devices themselves are intricate topics. Venkat will speak from his practical experience of working with internetworking devices and the applications managing them. Topic details: Network equipment testing — Bring-up, Configuration, Verification of hardware-software coordination, Network cards, Testing stackable units, Online Insertion and Removal, Command Line Interface, Functionality, Using third party traffic generators, Protocol testing, Standards, Interoperability, Multiple System Vendors, Performance, Performance measurement requirements, Configuring and maintaining the performance testbed, Traffic and Volume testing, Load and stress, Scalability, Reliability and Longetivity, Error detection and recovery, Framework for network testbeds, co-ordination, configuration files, Policy Based Routing testing, Case Study Network management testing — SNMP, Challenges in MIB testing, Aspects (FCAPS) of network management, Details on how to test the various aspects of network management, Installation testing, types of network management applications, Element Managers, testing integration of element managers, Windows based applications testing, Client/server applications testing, Challenges in managing network box using command line interface and SNMP at the same time, Challenges in testing network management applications, Simulators for network boxes, Managing stackable boxes, GUI aspects, Documentation testing, Online help testing, Case Study Audience: People testing Internetworking devices and Network Management applications. Anyone who is involved in GUI testing can also benefit from this workshop. |