The purpose of this thesis was to make a requirements specification to the reliability laboratory’s information and test automation system. This requirement specification was then compared to the true needs of the system users. As a result of this comparison, targets of the development actions were revealed.

The requirement specification was made in two parts. In the first part, requirement specification of the information system was made by using pre-approved design models. These design models included identification of user groups and collecting user stories. User stories were then analyzed and the needed functionality of the system was extracted from these stories. This functionality was then compared to the current system. As a result, the comparison revealed what functions the current system did not retain. It turned out that there was incomplete functionality in the web-based interface. This incomplete functionality included client side interactions and the process that concerned the approval of test plans and reports.

The second part of the requirement specification focused on improving the functionality of the test automation system. Reliability laboratory’s personnel was interviewed to collect ideas and suggestions to improve the current systems efficiency and usability. Ideas and improvement suggestions were also prioritized to get a good general view and discussion about which ideas and suggestions are worth implementing. Decisions regarding those implementations was not in the scope of this thesis and therefore, it was not made.

This thesis includes also some thoughts about the new system and its architecture. One possible model of the architecture is also introduced. In this model, automation network’s devices are controlled with computer that also acts as a web-server. This way, tester management could be achieved with everyone’s personal laptop by using a web browser. This would be a more flexible method compared to a control computer with fixed position.

This thesis is a part of regeneration project of the reliability laboratory’s information and test automation system. Futures development actions will be based on requirement specification presented in this thesis.