SAN MATEO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 27 -Embedded Solution Partners, LLC and The Fanfare Group, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a partnership in which Embedded Solution Partners will resell and provide professional services for the FanfareSVT family of products in North America. The FanfareSVT product family is the first commercially developed and supported test automation software built specifically for the needs of equipment vendors. It allows QA teams to break the QA backlog and gain control of their product release cycles.
In the race to get ever more sophisticated products to market, networking equipment manufacturers are often faced with a major dilemma: fully test their products at the possible expense of missing a narrow market window or meet their time to market requirements by cutting short their testing cycle. Test automation is widely accepted as the solution, but today's in-house solutions depend on conventional scripting. Creating portable maintainable scripts requires time and programming expertise -- both of which are in short supply in most QA organizations. The result is that the current state of the art has not allowed test teams to stay ahead of the curve.
"Our Clients have been telling us that with each product release, their automated testing efforts address a smaller percentage of their product's features," said Curt Schacker, CEO of Embedded Solution Partners. "What excites us about The Fanfare Group is that they have brought an entirely new approach to the problem. In conversation after conversation with major equipment OEMs, we're seeing the light go off -- they may finally have found a way to fully test their products without sacrificing time to market."
"Across the industry, product testing now consumes half of the product development cycle and that is growing rather than shrinking," said Kingston Duffie, CEO and CTO of The Fanfare Group. "Fanfare lets every team member contribute towards rapid test automation through a test case authoring approach that does not require programming expertise. Test development, execution, documentation and automation are unified into a single step thereby shortening the testing cycle while increasing coverage. We are excited to be working with Embedded Solution Partners, whose team of industry experts dramatically increases our reach into the organizations who can really benefit from the FanfareSVT product family."
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About Embedded Solution Partners
Embedded Solution Partners is a value added provider of embedded software technology and services. In partnership with the industry's leading embedded software and tools vendors, we offer best-in-class products and technology, expert professional services, and turnkey solutions -- all to help our clients maximize the success of their embedded projects. Our clients are manufacturers of leading-edge embedded products, from communications infrastructure and military equipment to industrial applications and medical instrumentation. To learn more, please visit Embedded Solution Partners at http://www.esolpartners.com or call +1-650-350-1000.
About The Fanfare Group
The Fanfare Group is dedicated to helping equipment vendors achieve Total Quality Automation(TM), which is accomplished when a QA organization is able to test every product feature and run 100% of its tests automatically during every product release cycle. Fanfare is a private company based in Mountain View, California, with venture backing from Matrix Partners and Redpoint Ventures. For more information, please visit http://www.fanfaregroup.com.
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Editorial Contacts:
Embedded Solution Partners
Maryse Schlessinger
650-350-1000
maryse@esolpartners.com
The Fanfare Group
Bethany Worm
650-641-5112
bworm@fnfr.com
