The ability of lawful intelligence solutions to ingest and maximize the value of all available information makes them mission-critical for law enforcement. These platforms, built on millions of lines of code, must be continuously updated. This complexity can lead to unforeseen consequences ranging from outages and service degradations to faulty analysis. Such issues can be difficult to detect, particularly if they occur rarely or inconsistently, and underscore the importance of reliability and accuracy in lawful intelligence. Any outages can stall investigations, waste resources, or even mislead investigators.
With nearly 25 years of leadership in advanced capabilities such as location intelligence, recursive identity lookup, and data fusion, SS8’s advanced software testing is central to delivering and maintaining its platform’s top-tier, long-term reliability and accuracy. Every change to every software module is tested exhaustively, individually and in combination with the rest of the solution, with a multitude of variables. The rigor of the program, which is constantly enhanced by SS8 engineers, ensures investigators can depend on the SS8 platform.
Boosting Quality with Automated Testing and AI
Software updates that alter the previous functionality of a lawful intelligence platform can potentially introduce new defects or bugs, which software teams detect using regression testing. Maximizing the effectiveness of regression testing is central to ongoing software quality. Tests must be repeatable so developers can count on consistent results to help distinguish the source of issues, and they must be cost-efficient to avoid resource constraints on extensive testing. SS8 has engineered significant automation into its test routines to increase both repeatability and efficiency. Each stage of development, testing, and deployment informs the other stages, in a feedback loop that accelerates new releases while delivering quality and cost benefits to SS8 customers.
AI and machine learning make testing more capable and effective. The classic test-driven approach begins with using AI to produce a set of tests based on project requirements and then constructing code to pass those tests. Generative AI uses large language models to simplify the creation of increasingly sophisticated test cases as well as producing test data based on samples. AI models can also analyze test outputs and use that information to tune the test cases, an automated workflow that makes testing more powerful and further enhances software reliability and accuracy.
Testing in the Cloud for Realistic Environments at Scale
SS8 maximizes the flexibility and depth of its software testing program by using cloud-based AI testing methodologies and infrastructure. Elastic cloud capacity lets test cases scale up and down freely based on demand, controlling the loads placed on individual components as well as the level of resources available to them and simulating real-world implementations. Reproducing varying workloads in an elastic test environment helps identify bottlenecks and optimize resource allocation, ensuring that the system can handle sudden spikes or drops in usage without compromising performance. Cloud-based testing can verify correct software functionality on a range of different processors and other hardware, and that breadth also extends to making the latest AI tools available to optimize the pace of change. These measures help enhance and verify lawful intelligence functionality for the full range of end-customer operating architectures.
Cloud-based testing allows engineers to further evaluate scalability and performance, as well as data isolation, in multi-tenant deployments. Testing of such scenarios ensures the platform can handle simultaneous tenant operations and fluctuating user loads while preventing cross-tenant data leakage. Testing in the cloud also makes it possible to assess and optimize the SS8 lawful intelligence platform against a wide variety of storage types. While storage performance is an important contributor to overall software quality, it is highly dependent on the storage technologies used. Cloud infrastructure uniquely makes it possible to test across an exceedingly large range of options, and plentiful industry data confirms baseline performance expectations.
To broaden testing scenarios, SS8 takes advantage of cloud-based network resources such as load balancers and cybersecurity tools to provide a range of complex test topologies. That approach helps ensure investigators that the platform will deliver results they can rely on in their particular environments. At the same time, broad access to cloud-based security tools such as lower cost vulnerability and penetration testing solutions make it possible to verify platform protection against threats such as denial-of-service attacks and unauthorized access.
Cloud-based testing can leverage AI to create test cases and generate test data, automating manual processes. By analyzing software requirements, user stories, and past testing data, AI models can identify key scenarios, edge cases, and potential failure points as well as generate diverse and realistic test data on various user interactions and system behaviors. Such AI-driven testing speeds up the testing process and minimizes human error.
SS8’s commitment to advanced software testing techniques protects mission-critical operations by law enforcement and other authorities with uncompromising software quality that delivers long-term value.
About Dr. Cemal Dikmen
As SS8’s Chief Technology & Security Officer, Cemal plays an integral role in the company’s strategic direction, development, and future growth. A renowned expert and thought leader in the legal compliance and communications analysis domain, he has been a frequent speaker at various industry conferences over the past 10 years. Cemal holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering. You can learn more about Cemal on his LinkedIn profile by clicking here.
About Syed Hussain
Syed has spent more than 20 years working in the telecommunication and cyber security industry in Engineering and Product Management leadership roles. He brings significant technical expertise to his role as VP of Product Management for SS8’s Lawful Intelligence products, covering Service Providers and Law Enforcement. He has led architecture and design of 5G Lawful Interception solutions in Cloud and non-cloud environments. Syed represents SS8 in both ETSI and 3GPP standards bodies and holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering. You can learn more about Syed on his LinkedIn profile here.
About Dr. Okan Yilmaz
Dr. Okan Yilmaz has over 20 years of experience driving innovation and leading software engineering teams. As VP of Engineering at SS8, he is responsible for the design, development, and quality assurance of mission-critical products, including lawful mediation, mobile network location intelligence, Law Enforcement Monitoring Center solutions, and AI/ML-powered intelligence data collection and analytics. Dr. Yilmaz holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an MBA from Virginia Tech. He also earned an M.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Engineering & Information Science from Bilkent University. Learn more about Okan here.
About SS8 Networks
As a leader in Lawful and Location Intelligence, SS8 is committed to making societies safer. Our mission is to extract, analyze, and visualize critical intelligence, providing real-time insights that help save lives. With 25 years of expertise, SS8 is a trusted partner of the world’s largest government agencies and communication providers, consistently remaining at the forefront of innovation.
Intellego® XT monitoring and data analytics portfolio is optimized for Law Enforcement Agencies to capture, analyze, and visualize complex data sets for real-time investigative intelligence.
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Xcipio® mediation platform meets the demands of lawful intercept in any network type and provides the ability to transcode (convert) between lawful intercept handover versions and standard families.
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