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iTest Team lets engineering teams automate testing of communications networks, network elements, and test equipment. iTest acts like a test executive for Tcl scripts, letting you develop multithreaded tests. You can use iTest Team to store test sequences and reuse them each time you need to perform regression tests on software or firmware.

Many network elements and test equipment let you control them remotely. iTest Team provides command-line and Web-browser interfaces, plus it provides access to the Windows command line interface (CLI). It lets you capture commands and export them to Tcl. A Tcl shell provides access to Tcl-based programming tools. You can run scripts manually or automatically and use loops and nests to further automate your tests.