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Quality assurance for TTCN-3 test specifications
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Helmut Neukirchen
Benjamin Zeiß
Jens Grabowski
Paul Baker
Dominic Evans
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Comprehensive testing of modern communication systems often requires large
and complex test suites, which have to be maintained throughout the system
life-cycle. Industrial experience, with those written using the standardised
Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3), has shown that this maintenance
is a non-trivial task and its burden can be reduced by means of appropriate
concepts and tool support. To this aim, Motorola has collaborated with
the University of Göttingen to develop TRex, an open-source TTCN-3 development
environment, which notably provides suitable metrics and refactorings
to enable the assessment and automatic restructuring of test suites. This article
presents concepts like metrics and refactoring for the quality assurance
of TTCN-3 test suites and their implementation provided by the TRex tool.
These means make it far easier to construct and maintain TTCN-3 tests that
are concise and optimally balanced with respect to maintainability quality
characteristics. |
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Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), Volume 18, Issue 2. (ISSN 0960-0833) DOI: 10.1002/stvr.379, Wiley, 2008, 71-97. |
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