| Galaxy Audit™ |
| Test Faster! |
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| Where does test time go? |
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Galaxy Audit
Test Time Reduction Tool |
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| What's the value proposition |
Galaxy Audit is a software tool that lets test engineers understand where test program execution time is spent. With it, engineers See, Understand and Improve programs.
 Audit is an engineering tool: it doesn't affect your production
Better Time-To-Market: Audit lets you faster build optimized test programs
Better Time-To-Volume: With faster programs, you better load your testers
Immediate ROI: expect 10-20% of Test Time Reduction!
It's quick to run: it only takes minutes to perform the test program analysis
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| How does it work? |
Audit offers a productive environment that lets all engineers (juniors and seniors) have access to an unprecedented set of program code and resource profiling tools. As a result, users can quickly identify any test program inefficiency and work on code rework strategies that pay-off!
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| When to use it? |
At any stage of the test program development and as often as you want! The optimization is an iterative end-less process...but with Audit, you close the loop much faster and reach the close-to-optimal code much faster...this turns into better Time-To-Market.
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| Where does the Time go? |
In a perfect world, test programs would be written by the best test engineer guru you have. He/she would do a perfect job: no inefficient code, a lean program, reliable and stable; a pure jewel...But as we all know from everyday experience, we are not in a perfect world yet. So, using the right tools you can reduce the productivity gap between your test engineers and your valuable guru. With Audit, engineers (and even our guru) work better, and faster. They find immediate answers:
Where test time is spent, locate any inefficient program section
Why such sections are not efficient: Audit gives you suggestions!
What strategies can be put in place to improve the test program efficiency
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| Time gain expected? |
Typically expect to trim 10% to 20% of your test program execution time! If you're looking to cut your cost of test in a matter of days...then Audit is for you!
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| Audit shows you WHERE to focus! |
From Galaxy Audit's powerful environment (runs on any PC or Sun workstation), you'll track down any inefficient test program section in a matter of minutes:
HTML diagnostic reports: created automatically, they locate for you all code sections to visit and optimize
Navigate and drill into the source code from the explorer interface
See the precise execution time of any line of code
See how resources are used over the program flow
Evaluate the efficiency of your Multi-threading code
See, understand and fix multi-site speed issues!
Playback capability: execute step-by-step your program to understand its runtime flow
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| Runs under Windows and Solaris! |
To give you full flexibility and boost your productivity, the Audit workshop solution is available for the Windows PC and Sun Solaris computer platforms. This means you can use any PC (including notebooks) as well as a Solaris station to run the software and perform: database analysis, reports generation, prepare an audit session, etc!
With Galaxy Audit, you're free to pick the computer platform you want - only test programs still have to be executed at your tester! Audit databases are 100% cross platform compatible, ther efore you're free to create a database with the Audit for Solaris, and read it with the Audit for Windows!
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| The benefits for you |
You'll find many benefits using Galaxy audit. The most valuable ones include:
Engineering time: 80% of optimization time is spent analyzing data, and 20% implementing the solution. With the Audit report showing you the code sections to modify, you'll now save significant time!
Efficiency booster: By only focusing on program changes that are worth it, you'll never waste time investigating wrong strategies.
Tester time: Audit gives visibility, therefore less tester time is now required to achieve better results.
Time to market: Programs faster finalized, start shipping products sooner.
Flexibility: You'll always have Audit with you: runs on laptops, Windows PC and Sun Workstations!
Innovative: Yet again an innovative software solution relying on Galaxy patented technology.
 Note: Galaxy Audit is available for Teradyne A5XX, Catalysts and Tigers test programs.
Workshop environment available for PC and Solaris stations.
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| Quick tour... |
| Key features |
Description |
Efficiency booster: the powerful graphical environment |
The Audit solution is easy:
Drilling into any code section is a snap! Different views are provided for faster navigation: the program flow view, the runtime view, and the source code view. Efficiency booster: as all views are synchronized and updated in real time, you always have a very rich panel of information to leverage. |
HTML Diagnostics:
the goldmine |
HTML automated diagnostics
Audit automatically reports for you optimization opportunities
Reports include detailed description of code sections with optimization potential!. |
Build Reports and Presentations
instantly! |
Direct support for:
Microsoft Word documents
Microsoft PowerPoint slides
Share Information
Easily integrate your Audit reports into
Word documents and PowerPoint slides in a matter of seconds! |
Intuitive navigation:
Colored syntax browser |
Navigate in the source code
Browse and drill into the source code
and benefit from the colored syntax for easy analysis and classifications |
Drill into the program:
Accurate data allows sharp data analysis and diagnostics |
Exact timing info
Browse in any line of the test program source code,
see the execution time statistics |
Drill into
the tester resources |
Resource usage
See the exact time spent addressing your resources.
Drill into any resource family and see which lines of code are involved! |
Check: Multi-thread
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Multi-thread efficiency
See the real benefit brought by multi-thread usage,
optimize its content to maximize your test program speed |
Identify: Multi-sites
speed discrepancies |
Multi-sites speed discrepancies: synchronization issues
Ever wondered why multi-sites do not execute at the same speed?
Thanks to Audit, you'll now see why and fix it! |
Playback: the power to debug offline |
Playback debugger environment
Execute in step-by-step any line of code you want...with no tester!
Try again, repeat as many time as needed: the playback
lets you focus and analyze any flow section you want. |
On line documentation |
Step-by-step tutorials
The online documentation includes user oriented step-by-step tutorials.
Designed to dramatically reduce your learning curve, you'll find practical case studies.
Within 30 minutes, you'll master the solution and audit your own programs! |
Web Resources |
Knowledge Center
The Galaxy Web site support section includes
sharp and up-to-date information to help you.
It makes you more productive with minimal effort. |
Most Bang for the buck |
Cost effective
Audit makes you save a lot of money! |
The perfect tool you need! |
and much, much more! |
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