TTCN-3 FAQ

January 24, 2012

1.    What is TTCN-3? -    Testing and Test Control Notation Version 3 (maintained by ETSI – European Telecom Standardization Institute) -    TTCN-3 Testing Language -    Standardized modern high level language for testing -    TTCN-3 Architecture -    TTCN-3 TCI and TRI interfaces -    Black-box, functional testing of reactive systems 2.    What are the most popular domains [...]

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TTCN-3 Quick Reference Card

January 2, 2012

  ETSI published new TTCN-3 edition 4.4.1. TTCN-3 Quick Reference Card is updated and provides direct access to the latest documents. This Quick Reference Card summarizes language features to support users of TTCN-3.

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Innovative model-based TTCN-3 testing solution from Elvior

December 20, 2011

Elvior TestCast MBT is a complete model-based TTCN-3 testing solution that covers the entire model-based testing workflow from modeling to TTCN-3 test cases execution and analysis. TestCast MBT integrates the technologies from two of the world’s leading test tool vendors - Conformiq and Elvior. TestCast MBT combines the superior compilation and test execution speed of Elvior’s TestCast TTCN-3 [...]

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TTCN-3 User Conference 2012, Call for Presentations

December 5, 2011

ETSI is organizing the TTCN-3 User Conference 2012 from 11th to 13th June 2012, in Bangalore, India. The ETSI testing language TTCN-3 is a well established and mature testing technology applicable to many domains, including automotive, medical, aerospace, transportation, and others. In addition, its use has expanded from functional conformance testing into load, performance, and [...]

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Why and how to migrate test suites from TTCN-2 to TTCN-3?

November 17, 2011

The major new capabilities of TTCN-3 compared to TTCN-2 are: different presentation formats (e.g. tabular and MSC presentation formats), dynamic concurrent testing configurations, operations for synchronous and asynchronous communications, ability to specify encoding information and other attributes (including user extensibility), data and signature templates with powerful matching mechanisms, type and value parameterization, assignment and handling [...]

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The evolution of TTCN

November 17, 2011

TTCN Work on Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN) first started in 1984 in as part of the work on OSI conformance testing methodology and framework. Since then TTCN was widely used for describing protocol conformance test suites in standard organizations such as ITU-T, ISO/IEC, ATM Forum, and ETSI and in industries. The main characteristics of [...]

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TTCN-3 User Conference 2011 in Bled, Slovenia 7-9 June

April 28, 2011

Yes, that is right. This year the TTCN-3 User Conference takes place in Beld, Slovenia. The dates to be booked are between 7-9th of June 2011. From T3UC 2011 official homepage: Testing is now a multi-billion dollar business and is a key issue in any serious software and system development process. TTCN-3 (the Testing and [...]

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Overview of commercial TTCN-3 tools

March 14, 2011

This is a question that quite often a person new to the TTCN-3 community asks. Of course, it is in the community interest to provide the most information on the variety of tools out there. There is a brief list of commercial TTCN-3 tools currently available on the market. TestCast – TTCN-3 test platform for [...]

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What is the role of Platform Adapter?

September 1, 2010

In platform adapter you implement: 1) external functions (if any) used in your TTCN-3 code 2) external timers (if any) If your TTCN-3 script does not contain external functions and you do not need external timers then you do not need platform adapter ( this is in case with some test tools, as they have [...]

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See Public TTCN-3 Test Suites

August 17, 2010

One of the benefit for using TTCN-3 test language has always been the opportunity to download free publicly available TTCN-3 test suites. Some publicly available test suites are available at ETSI’s website. Main areas for public TTCN-3 test suites that ETSI provides: digital Public Mobile Radio (dDMR) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv6) IPv6 Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Voice [...]

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