
MONITOR MASTER – PRODUCT PORTFOLIO STATIONARY TESTING
vodafone spain
Based in Madrid, Vodafone Spain is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Vodafone International. At the end of 2008 Vodafone Spain served more
than 16 million customers via GSM & UMTS. Vodafone’s innovative wireless
products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter
most. Vodafone Spain is the second-largest operator in Spain and multiple
independent quality studies continue to rank Vodafone Spain as the best
operator in Spain for call and data quality.
Vodafone Spain currently has more than 20 Monitor Master probes
in their network, and has plans to add more. They use Monitor Master for
service monitoring 7x24, network performance monitoring 7x24, revenue
assurance testing, roaming testing, provisioning testing, service audits, and
quality assurance.
They test and monitor many services within the national network,
including:
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Service monitoring, performance, and quality assurance:
- Transfer balance
- Customer care assistance menus
- Query balance
- Vodafone live (Mobile TV [radio and network interfaces],
Real tones download, Games download, MP3 download, and
advertising)
- Instant Messaging
- MMS (P2P, P2P [inter-carrier] and Premium services [MO and MT])
- Web applications
- Product provisioning
- MVNOs services
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Revenue Assurance in local and roaming (calls, messaging, data
sessions and roaming services)
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Service audits (VF live and provisioning)
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Regression testing (IT releases)
Some of the specific test cases used in the above tests include:
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USSD stage 2 for interactive menus
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Voice quality testing using the PESQ algorithm to produce MOS
scores in a full mesh configuration
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Video quality testing using the VMOS algorithm to produce scores
in a full mesh configuration
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VF live browsing and content audit to produce a list of failures
inside the portal
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General purpose test scenarios (voice, video, USSD Stage 1 and 2,
USSD Callback, SMS, MMS, data sessions) allow us to test most of
the services locally and roaming using different devices, A and B
subscribers, carriers, bearers, etc.
“Quality is extremely important to us.
to ensure this we have implemented
monitor master throughout our entire
product service lifecycle, from testing
a new service in pre-launch mode to
regression testing and monitoring
on launched services. monitor master
has really been a key component, and
enabler, for improving our revenues,
costs and of course customer satisfac-
tion!”
Jose gonzalez, director Products, services &
innovation, vodafone spain, madrid
Customer reFereNCe