Refactoring and Metrics for TTCN-3 Test Suites

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Title Refactoring and Metrics for TTCN-3 Test Suites
Authors Benjamin Zeiß
Helmut Neukirchen
Jens Grabowski
Dominic Evans
Paul Baker
Abstract: Experience with the development and maintenance of test suites has shown that the Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3) provides very good concepts for adequate test specification. However, experience has also demonstrated that during either the migration of legacy test suites to TTCN-3, or the development of large TTCN-3 test specifications, users have found it is difficult to construct TTCN-3 tests that are concise with respect to readability, usability, and maintainability. To address these issues, this paper investigates refactoring and metrics for TTCN-3. Refactoring restructures a test suite systematically without changing its behaviour. Complementary metrics are used to assess the quality of TTCN-3 test suites. For automation, a tool called TRex has been developed that supports refactoring and metrics for TTCN-3.
Publication: System Analysis and Modeling: Language Profiles. 5th International Workshop, SAM 2006, Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 31 - June 2, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4320. DOI: 10.1007/11951148_10, Springer, 2006, 148-165.
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