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Welcome to the forefront of innovation in test automation for real mobile devices, tailored specifically for mobile network communication. Join us as we embark on an exhilarating journey into the future of test automation. We’re thrilled to invite you to our blog, where we’ll be your guide through the challenges and opportunities that await in this dynamic new era. Let’s navigate the future together and transform the way we approach test automation.
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Roaming
2G & 3G Shutdown by 2028: Is Your VoLTE Roaming Testing Ready?
3G shutdowns are already well advanced in many markets. Even as networks moved through 3G, 4G and now 5G, legacy technology stayed in the background
August 11, 2026
Operations & Live Networks
How To: MVNO Network Testing & Continuous Service Monitoring
Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) benefit from continuous service monitoring and testing to maintain high network quality and improve customer retention. Learn effective strategies with
July 16, 2026
eSIM
Travel eSIMs in 2026: How SEGRON Ensures Seamless Connectivity
2026 is the tipping point for travel eSIMs. Learn how SEGRON’s Global Service Enabler ensures reliable activation, roaming quality and seamless connectivity.
May 14, 2026
Operations & Live Networks
How Automated Real-Device Testing Complements AI-Driven Network Maintenance
Discover how SEGRON’s automated real-device testing and AI-powered network analytics deliver closed-loop assurance for telecom operators. Achieve proactive maintenance, improved customer experience, and reliable live
November 11, 2025
Operations & Live Networks
Why Active Testing Is Not Just a QA Tool — It’s a Business Safeguard
Discover how active testing has evolved beyond quality assurance into a critical business safeguard for telecom operators. Learn why proactive testing with real devices prevents
April 30, 2025
Roaming
Real-Device Roaming QoE Testing
Roaming testing with real smartphones is revolutionizing Quality of Experience (QoE) in telecommunications. Learn how SEGRON’s solutions deliver accurate insights into VoLTE, 5G, and roaming
January 15, 2025
General
Empowering Telcos with Data-Driven Decisions and Increased Profitability!
Discover how SEGRON empowers telcos to make data-driven decisions and boost profitability. Our automated active testing and monitoring solution provides real-time insights into network performance
November 21, 2024
eSIM
Remote SIM Provisioning & eSIM Testing on Real Devices
Discover how eSIM and Remote SIM Provisioning are transforming connectivity, and how SEGRON’s automated testing platform ensures seamless integration with real devices.
July 31, 2024
Operations & Live Networks
How Telco Test Automation Boosts User Experience
Discover how telco test automation enhances user experience by ensuring seamless functionality after network upgrades. Learn about the role of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
July 18, 2024
Testlabs
How To: Continuous Regression Testing
Discover how you can automate your continuous regression testing, what is the process and the realted benefits.
July 3, 2024
Testlabs
Ensuring Superior Voice Quality with HD Voice Over Bluetooth
With the growing demand for clear and reliable communication, HD Voice emerges as an important innovation, enhancing the clarity and quality of voice calls. Another
June 13, 2024
Operations & Live Networks
Why Live-Network Mobility Testing Beats a Shared Test Lab
Discover how Over-The-Air (OTA) interfaces are revolutionizing mobile network testing by transitioning from traditional labs to live network conditions, enhancing signal accuracy and test reliability.
May 9, 2024
Roaming
International Roaming Quality Monitoring: Why It’s Now Business-Critical
International roaming in digital mobile communications hasn’t just been invented. Customers across the globe have been enjoying mobile services abroad for over 30 years already,
March 4, 2024
Testlabs
VoNR Testing with SEGRON’s ATF
How SEGRON’s ATF validates VoNR call setup, signalling, and voice quality on real smartphones — demonstrated in a live VoNR testing engagement with O2 Telefónica.
February 18, 2024
eSIM
eSIM Test Solution with SEGRON’s ATF
SEGRON’s eSIM test solution replaces physical SIMs with local and central multiplexing — simulate multiple subscriber profiles across devices without hardware failures.
November 26, 2023
Roaming
Enhancing Voice Services during Roaming with VoLTE:Benefits and Performance Insights
VoLTE Technology Unveiled: Exploring the Benefits and Insights of Maximizing Voice Quality in Roaming. Currently, there is a noticeable trend in the telecommunications market where
July 11, 2023
Operations & Live Networks
Why Operators Need Smartphones to Monitor True Customer Experience
Let me tell you an anecdote from more than 18 years ago, back in 2004. It was a time when mobile phones only featured voice,
February 16, 2023
Operations & Live Networks
The Basics of Lawful Interception and 5G Considerations
A communication service provider (CSP) was in search of automated testing solutions. Like most providers, they wanted to verify speed and performance for voice and
June 9, 2022
Roaming
Why Telco Companies Should be Thinking about Roaming Testing
In the not-so-distant past, a seasoned traveler would do a bunch of research before going on a trip, saving maps to their phone, printing out
May 5, 2022
General
What Does Android Fragmentation Mean for Testers?
Though Apple users constitute a minority of mobile device users around the world, they’re a fairly predictable bunch when it comes to OS and firmware
March 10, 2021
Operations & Live Networks
The Top 5 Causes of Network Outages
As mobile voice and data services have become a communication necessity for business and private purposes, network outages will continue to be a serious problem
February 9, 2021
Operations & Live Networks
How Automated Testing Improves the End Customer Experience
Not so long ago, the customer journey used to be quite simple, and most of all, linear: a consolidated progression from
January 20, 2021
Operations & Live Networks
5 Testing Tactics to Help You Troubleshoot Your Network
A few years ago, an Accenture report uncovered a statistic that may be particularly troubling for mobile carriers: 77% of all consumers would retract their loyalty from
December 29, 2020
General
Frequently Asked Questions About SEGRON’s Automated Testing Framework
Making the transition from manual to automated tests can be daunting—particularly in the telecom domain, where so much specialized knowledge is required for almost every
December 18, 2020
Operations & Live Networks
How Machine Learning Is Changing Test Automation
Everybody wants to be part of the next big thing, whether that’s some shiny new test management strategy or an emerging technology like Artificial Intelligence
August 25, 2020
Operations & Live Networks
Are QoS and QoE the same thing?
Sometimes, as a tester, you might feel like your users are experiencing a completely different system from the one that you’re testing and deploying. You
July 21, 2020
General
How Can Hyperautomation Improve Test ROI?
Ever since Gartner named hyperautomation as one of its top technology trends for the coming year, there’s been a flood of discussion about what, exactly, hyperautomation might
June 30, 2020
Operations & Live Networks
5 Testing Pitfalls That Slow Down Time-to-Market
It’s been a common refrain in the past several years: “Who will win the race to 5G?” Sometimes media outlets and prognosticators are talking about individual
June 8, 2020
Testlabs
How (and Why) You Should Test on Flagship Devices
According to Apple, in the last quarter of 2019, the recently-released iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max made up nearly 70%
May 25, 2020
Testlabs
Case Study: Circuit Switched Core Network Automation
Let’s say you’re planning to migrate to a new high-redundancy CS core network—what’s the first challenge that comes to mind? For many of you, it
February 19, 2020
Testlabs
How To : Automated Provisioning Tests
Raise your hand if a subscriber has ever complained to your company because she wasn’t getting the Quality of Service (QoS) she was paying for.
January 30, 2020
Testlabs
How to Test Seamless Call Services
It might seem somewhat paradoxical, but the better your LTE coverage gets, the harder it becomes to test something like SRVCC. Verizon, for instance, has
January 23, 2020
Testlabs
3 Tips for Improved Telecom Lab Testing
For the best possible results, your test lab needs to make use of the absolute latest in cutting edge technology. Because this is the arena
January 21, 2020
General
The Telco Operator’s Guide to Test Case Scripting
One of the biggest concerns we hear from telco operators looking to automate their tests is the relative ease or difficulty of test case scripting.
January 16, 2020
Testlabs
Why Should Testers Care About Signalling Trace?
At most telco operators, end-to-end tests are the dream. Given that each new network update or service offering potentially requires dozens of testcases verifying conformance,
January 7, 2020
General
Why Robots Will Shape the Future of Telco Testing
As of a few years ago, more than 90% of software testers reported that they were automating between 50 and 100% of their tests. Of
December 26, 2019
General
5 Ways Telecoms Can Increase Test Velocity
Let’s say you’re migrating all of your subscribers to a highly redundant HSS database. You know it’s going to be a long process, but you
December 19, 2019
Testlabs
What to Look for in Test Automation Reporting
Let’s say you’re in a management position at prominent European network provider, and you’re trying to assess network quality. Some of your biggest questions are
December 17, 2019
Operations & Live Networks
How To: HSS Migration Validation
Often, when we talk about quality of service (QoS) we tend to focus on things like latency, jitter, and packet loss, i.e. the network conditions
December 10, 2019
Testlabs
Case Study: PCRF Regression Testing
Way back in the day, if you were on the go and needed to make a phone call, you kept your eyes peeled for the
December 5, 2019
General
Is Keyword Driven Testing Right for Your Test Automation Strategy?
Let’s say you have a small system whose functionality you want to test, and you determine that there are five distinct use cases that require
December 3, 2019
Testlabs
Are Tests Run on Rooted Devices Reliable?
Sometimes, the OS that comes built into an Apple or Android device can seem like it’s actively preventing you from doing what you want. And,
November 26, 2019
Operations & Live Networks
How To: Mobility Management
In the US right now, Verizon and T-Mobile are battling it out for who can provide the most extensive LTE coverage. And as of OpenSignal’s
November 21, 2019
Testlabs
How To: 5g Testbed Testing
Back in 2017, the UK launched its 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme, the stated aim of which was to support coordinated research into 5G technology
November 14, 2019
Testlabs
How To: Enterprise Mobility Testing
Enterprise mobility testing gets complicated fast: verifying voice, SMS, and data quality for a global, dispersed workforce means testing across countries, not just from your
November 7, 2019
Testlabs
How To: Verifying eCall Service
As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows and expands, the number of different elements that will have to consistently connect to any given network is
October 29, 2019
General
5 Factors That Impact Telecom Test Quality
It’s no secret that test quality has a direct impact on quality of service, meaning that high quality tests can and do correlate with telco
September 26, 2019
General
What Does End-to-End Testing Mean for Telecoms?
The digitization of telecommunications has led to the adoption of many software testing methodologies, including end-to-end (E2E) testing. Sometimes confused with system testing, E2E testing
September 19, 2019
General
Outsourced vs. In-house: Which Testing Method is Better for Telecoms?
At some point in their growth and development, most businesses regardless of industry eventually reach a point where they realize they can’t do it all
September 17, 2019
Testlabs
3 Examples of End-to-End Telecom Testing in Action
We talk a lot on this blog about end-to-end testing, and we don’t plan to change that fact any time soon. Why? Because end-to-end still
September 12, 2019
General
How Can Telco Operators Speed Up Conformance Testing?
When technology changes and evolves—as it does almost constantly—in the telecom domain, it typically takes standard-setting bodies like 3GPP six months to a year to
September 5, 2019
General
The 3 Step Guide to Automated Network Testing
The modern cycle of updates for telecom networks continues to speed up, and telco operators need to do the same in order to keep pace
September 3, 2019
General
How to Evaluate Telecom Testing Tools
As increasing device fragmentation and the proliferation of different protocols continue to inflate the number of use cases that require testing, human testers are struggling
August 29, 2019
Operations & Live Networks
5 Ways Network Quality Testing Can Impact Your Bottom Line
Network quality has long been a top cause of customer churn for telcos. Yet organizations often continue to struggle with delivering adequate quality because the
August 27, 2019
General
Does Your Test Partner Need to Be a Telco Expert?
End-to-end testing—it’s all the rage right now in any number of industries, and with good reason. As global technologies become more connected and more thoroughly
August 9, 2019
Testlabs
How to Measure ROI in Your Test Lab
In an ideal world, service verification for voice, data, and mobile broadband usage would probably look a lot different than it does right now. Test
July 18, 2019
Operations & Live Networks
Regression Testing for Network Quality
Network demands have grown increasingly complex in recent years. For example, people’s reliance on smartphones for everything from navigation to mobile banking means that networks
July 11, 2019
General
6 Reasons Network Testing Is More Complex Than Ever
A few years ago, a tester working on a typical telco project could run through about 10 use cases per day. Now, that number is
June 28, 2019
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