One Platform for Automated Testing of Smart TVs

Ans: The capability to stream videos is one of the key factors behind the rising popularity of Smart TVs. The critical scenarios related to video and audio streaming include:

• Video buffering with forward and rewind features
• Audio and video sync
• Streaming quality after internet re-connections
• User experience quality with respect to attributes like blockiness, blurriness, and others
• Seamless functioning with multiple apps and users

Ans: While testing smart tv applications, testers must consider the following remote control use cases:

• Testing if the TV can receive the IR signals from the remote control from a fair amount of distance or not
• Testing whether the onscreen keyboard on TV is functioning correctly or not with the remote control input
• Testing how the TV behaves for receiving the IR signals when the remote control with new and old batteries

Ans: HeadSpin natively supports the Appium framework. The open-source Appium version only supports Apple TV 4th generation but not the Apple TV 4K. To resolve this shortcoming, HeadSpin has built a solution that works for different network devices, such as the 4K for Appium.

Ans: HeadSpin's data science capabilities offer a one-stop solution to test for a vast range of media content, including DRM-protected content. Additionally, it helps capture Quality of Experience and steaming performance KPIs including reference-free video MOS (mean opinion score) and different non-functional requirements beyond the conventional functional testing.