Introduction to TTCN-3

TTCN-3 in a nutshell Cut your sofware testing expenses Functional black-box tests automation

What is TTCN-3? (1/2) ► TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation version 3) is a strongly typed test scripting language. It is a precessor of older TTCN standards that have been developed for more than 15 years by now. ► TTCN has been developed and is maintained by the Methods for Testing and Specification Technical Committee (TC-MTS) at ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). See more about ETSI... ► TTCN-3 is internationally standardized testing language that is designed purely for black-box testing and certification.

What is TTCN-3? (2/2) ► TTCN-3 is not restricted to conformance testing and can be used for many other kinds of testing including interoperability, robustness, regression, system and integration testing. ► TTCN-3 is platform independent testing technology and there are many TTCN-3 test tool vendords available. ► TTCN-3 is ‘living’ language and is constantly under development receiving new input from the whole TTCN-3 community (users, vendors and other stakeholders).

How is TTCN-3 different? ► From conventional programming or scripting language? ► Dedicated language for testing ► Rich type system including native list types and support for subtyping ► Built-in matching mechanism ► Snapshot semantics, i.e., well defined handling of port and timeout queues during their access ► Concept of verdicts and a verdict resolution mechanism ► Support for specification of concurrent test behaviour ► Support for timers ► Allows test configuration at run-time ► From a test tool or vendor proprietary testing language? ► Not tied to particular application or its interface(s) ► Not tied to any specific test execution environment, compiler or operating system ► TTCN-3 as such is not executable, it requires a compiler/interpreter, adapter as well as codec implementations Source: www.etsi.org

TTCN-3 generic framework Test System User TM: Test Management TL: Test Logging TCI Component Handling Codec CH: CD: TE: TEST EXECUTABLE TRI SA: System Adapter PA: Platform Adapter System Under Test (SUT)

TRI and TCI ► TRI TTCN-3 Runtime Interface (TRI) is a standardized interface that helps to connect system adapter with the system under test (SUT) ► TCI TTCN-3 Control Interface (TCI) is a standardized interface helps to connect external logger, test management and codecs

TTCN-3 application areas ► TTCN-3 popularity is constantly increasing and new users are joining the community. ► It has been chosen to be the testing language in various large scale projects, e.g. WIMAX, 3GPP LTE, IPv6, AUTOSAR etc. ► Application areas differentiate greatly, e.g. telecommunication, automotive, railway, financial etc. ► The levels of applying and using TTCN-3 vary from module to high level integrations. Laboratory Integration Distributed Telecom Internet Transport Layer Unit Module Figure structure: www.etsi.org

Example of the core format

TTCN-3 test system requirements ► A TTCN-3 test suite ►A TTCN-3 tool, i.e., a TTCN-3 compiler (or interpreter) plus execution environment ► Optionally: implementations for test execution control, logging and codecs (usually tools offer default implementations for these) ► A SUT Adapter implementing the means of communication required by SUT interfaces ► A Platform Adapter implementing a timing model and external functions (if there are any defined in the test suite)

TTCN-3 core language versions  TTCN-3: 2001 (v.1.1.2)  TTCN-3: 2003 (v.2.2.1)  TTCN-3: 2005 (v.3.1.1)  TTCN-3: 2007 (v.3.2.1)  TTCN-3: 2008 (v.3.3.2)  TTCN-3: 2008 Amendment 1 (v.3.4.1)  TTCN-3: 2009 (v.4.1.1)  TTCN-3: 2010 (v.4.2.1)

TTCN-3 standards ► Part 1: "TTCN-3 Core Language"; ► Part 2: "TTCN-3 Tabular presentation Format (TFT)- not supported as of version 4.2.1." ; ► Part 3: "TTCN-3 Graphical presentation Format (GFT)"; ► Part 4: "TTCN-3 Operational Semantics"; ► Part 5: "TTCN-3 Runtime Interface (TRI)"; ► Part 6: "TTCN-3 Control Interface (TCI)"; ► Part 7: "Using ASN.1 with TTCN-3"; ► Part 8: "The IDL to TTCN-3 Mapping"; ► Part 9: "Using XML schema with TTCN-3"; ► Part 10: "TTCN-3 Documentation Comment Specification"

Public TTCN-3 test suites ► Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) ► IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) ► Internet Protocol Version 6 (Ipv6) ► WiMax MAC ► Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) ► Digital Public Mobile Radio (dPMR) ► Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv6) ► 3GPP LTE Test Suite See more on www.ttcn-3.org

More information available... ETSI's official TTCN-3 web site: www.ttcn-3.org ► Public TTCN-3 test suites, useful TTCN-3 modules ► Links to commercial as well as open source tools Read publications ► Communicating Systems (TESTCOM) ► Presentations of yearly TTCN-3 User Conferences in Europe or Asia (see www.ttcn-3.org and T3UC) ► Google for various TTCN-3 case studies An Introduction to TTCN-3 Book ► Willcock, Deiss, Tobies, Keil, Engler, Schulz ► ISBN 0-470-01224-2

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