YuMi robot
Testing with YuMi will make cash machines more reliable and secure
The time a person takes to withdraw cash from an ATM is around thirty seconds. These cash dispensing machines have become ubiquitous in cities, towns and even villages across the world and the intuitive nature of the machines have revolutionised banking.
To ensure the financial transactions are secure and safe, an ATM receives new software updates or patches every six months at least. But before any new software is released it must be rigorously tested to ensure compliance with local and global specifications for reliability, usability and security.
Swiss-based payments software provider Abrantix AG commissioned an ABB YuMi robot to automate the testing of Diebold Nixdorf’s ATMs. The Abrantix Test Environment software instructs the YuMi robot to test out common ATM operations such as inserting cards, typing in PIN codes and withdrawing and inserting money, just like a human.
The testing is so exhaustive that YuMi is programmed to deliberately make human errors, such as inserting money bound with a paperclip, to ensure the software can deal with a range of issues.
The prototype dual-armed YuMi, developed at the Abrantix global headquarters in Switzerland, is a game-changer for ATM software testers. The YuMi system replaces the traditional manual testing environment, that not only required testers to spend hundreds of hours in front of an ATM, but also ran the risk of human error.
Automation has increased the speed of the software development process. During the day, developers create new ATM software features that are then tested automatically by the YuMi robot at night. Feedback is checked the following day, which frees up time for testers to perform more meaningful tasks.
“Previously, the test cycles could become bottle necks and even risks in the critical path of a release. With the new YuMi-based solution, this is much more under control and employees can now focus on improving test cases and procedures or even develop new software features, while YuMi is testing the ATMs,” said Abrantix CEO Daniel Eckstein.
“At Diebold Nixdorf, we believe this testing automation environment created by the innovation leaders Abrantix and ABB, combined with our own extensive knowledge in innovative ATM software development and testing, has a fantastic potential to massively improve test efficiency and software quality in hundreds of our customers’ test labs around the world,” said Richard Schlauri, MD of Diebold Nixdorf, Switzerland.
Marc-Andre Zingg, ABB Robotics Business Line Manager in Switzerland, said: “The ATM testing system developed by Abrantix is exactly the sort of precise, collaborative process that our YuMi robot was designed for. With YuMi, Abrantix is not only assured that the robot will safely share tasks with their employees, but their skilled software developers now have more time to devote to other more valuable tasks, while YuMi works away in the background on repetitive, but highly important tests, 24 hours a day.”
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