Second, an extensive automated test system was already in place to provide the backbone of the new methodology.

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Not surprisingly perhaps, there was some initial opposition from driving inspectors to the introduction of this automated test centre.

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Automated test equipment orders are expected to fall 6% this year and 16.5% next year, before rebounding 37.9% in 2013.

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The result: the world's first automated driving test centre opened in Bangalore this year.

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But HP is ahead in some areas, such as automated tools to test the quality of the customer's software, says IDC analyst Stephen Hendrick.

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Captcha stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, and was first developed at Carnegie Mellon university in 2000.

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Prof Hopkins and colleagues used the drug donepezil, used to treat people with Alzheimer's disease, to test the automated system.

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Wind River FAST is an automated software testing solution that is able to rapidly test any Android or GENIVI-based implementation for software quality, performance and compliance with the Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS).

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