AN AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY FOR ABSTRACT TEST SUITES

Kalogeropoulos Stylianos, Kotsilieris Theodoros, Mihalas Aggelos, Loumos Vassileios, Kayafas Eleftherios

Abstract

Testing is a major factor in the successful development of efficient and reliable telecommunication implementations. The need for a unified approach in conformance testing, led to the publication of the Conformance Testing Methodology and Framework (CTMF) standard ISO/IEC 9646 ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]). The Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN), is the standard language used to specify Abstract Test Suites (ATSs) [3]. It is observed that quality of TTCN test suites published by international committees (ETSI, ITU-T) is often regarded as poor. This is an indication of weaknesses in current Quality Assessment (QA) practices. In this paper an automatic quality assessment method for Abstract Test Suites is defined, tested and evaluated.

Keywords

Conformance Testing, TTCN Abstract Test Suite, Software metrics, Automatic quality assessment

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