Certification is often one of the most demanding and time-consuming phases in a product’s lifecycle. Whether it’s for payment systems, automotive connectivity, or IoT devices, achieving compliance with evolving standards requires exhaustive testing, precision, and traceability.
At Mellonne, we believe test automation is one of the most effective levers for reducing certification time—improving both speed and quality while ensuring alignment with the latest specifications.
The Certification Bottleneck
Manual certification testing presents recurring challenges:
Complex Coverage
of hundreds or thousands of test scenarios
Human variability
leading to inconsistent results and contradictions
Frequent standard/client specification updates
that require manual test maintenance
Limited traceability
between requirements, cases, and executions
These factors make certification lengthy, error-prone, and costly—delaying product launches.
How Test Automation Transforms Certification
1. Faster Execution and Continuous Validation
Automated test suites can run overnight and in parallel, transforming weeks of manual effort into hours. Continuous testing provides rapid feedback and enables early issue resolution — essential for faster certification readiness.
2. Consistency and Repeatability
Automation ensures each test executes identically, eliminating human errors and ensuring results are fully reproducible — a key factor for certification audits.
3. Complete Coverage with Model-Based Testing
Using Model-Based Testing (MBT), Mellonne engineers automatically generate test cases from formal system models. This guarantees comprehensive coverage, minimizes omissions, and provides end-to-end traceability from requirements to results.
4. Adaptability to Changing Standards
Automated test suites can be updated at the model level when standards or clients specifications evolve, without manually updating scripts — ensuring flexibility and long-term maintainability.
5. Alignment with Certification Bodies
Automation produces standardized, traceable outputs that certification labs readily accept, reducing the risk of re-runs or validation discrepancies.
Mellonne’s Expertise and Solutions
Mellonne integrates automation into every stage of validation and certification through proven methodologies and specialized tools.
Tailored test frameworks for payments, IoT, and automotive systems, designed for reliability and reproducibility.
Formal modeling and auto-generation of test suites to improve consistency and traceability.
Custom or hybrid tool creation to integrate automation into existing test infrastructures.
Conclusion
Our Model-Based Testing (MBT) approach is the foundation that makes true automation possible—turning certification from a slow, procedural step into a driver of agility and innovation. By capturing system behavior in precise, reusable models, we enable automatic test generation, execution, and maintenance at scale. This model-driven automation accelerates certification, enhances consistency, and delivers the full traceability and confidence today’s compliance-driven industries demand.
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