Aspects Tools has announced the release of Tool Box 1.0, its new suite of test tools for mobile handsets and (U)SIM cards.
Tool Box comprises tools for monitoring communications between a mobile handset and a USIM card; testing a USIM card's behaviour and profile; testing a mobile handset; and running ready-made test suites. As well as supporting ISO 7816, GSM and 3G, Tool Box adds SWP/HCI support as well as CDMA2000 translation.
"Tool Box 1.0 gave us the chance to start again," said Steve Lincoln, Aspects CTO, "using everything we have learnt over the years and including our customers' suggestions to build an exceptional suite of new tools. Tool Box was a great opportunity to improve the usability and power of our offering. Aspects Spy, for example, has been designed to make spying a much more intuitive process. Aspects Spy's split view, multiple protocol views and timeline makes the session easier to follow, and our inspections offer automated session analysis to reduce the time required to troubleshoot."
The first release of Tool Box also sees the introduction of Aspects Mobile, a new tool for testing cards. Aspects Mobile allows users to write tests using Aspects powerful high-level Java APIs; to run tests and to save certificates and batch summaries that can be read by Aspects Viewer, a free session and certificate viewer.
André Reumerman, Aspects' CEO, adds "Before we had two version of everything: one for GSM and one for 3G. Now, we have only one. Customers pick the technologies they work with and then add tools and test suites to build their own, custom-built tool box. It makes sense."
Aspects has developed Tool Box 1.0 to support Aspects' existing hardware environments as well as those of their hardware development partner, Micropross. Micropross' SWP/HCI hardware platform MP300 TC3 is Tools Box' launch platform. Aspects and Micropross announced their partnership on October 16, 2008.