Modern Test Technique Wins Recognition
Berlin/Phoenix, February 2001 - At the last technical
committee meeting on 24th January in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.,
the testing working group of the international industry consortium
ATM forum has decided to verify the use of the new test methodology
TTCN-3 as to-be standard. With this decision, the ATM Forum
makes an important step towards the use of modern test methods
and tools for infrastructures and services in the future. In
an objective and widespread presentation on TTCN-3, Testing
Technologies IST GmbH showed own tools based on the TTCN-3
standards and demonstrated the advantages of TTCN-3 contributing
by that to the decision of the ATM Forum testing working group.
Testing Technologies will give advice to the ATM Forum in the
evaluation phase of TTCN-3.
"The ATM-Forum is particularly with regard to future
mobile phone generation an important body as ATM is the network
technology of new mobile phone networks." In these words,
Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles – CEO of Testing Technologies
and contributor to the ATM Forum – evaluates the new
direction. "A decision towards the new test methodology
TTCN-3 would lead shortly to a variety of modern and comfortable
test tools for enterprises that are currently active in the
Internet market or strive for the new mobile communication
market. Alone the pace of development and the complexity of
most distributed systems, requires a new generation of test
methods and tools and, last but not least, reduces risks and
secures investments.”
The quality leap from current test techniques to TTCN-3 is
enormous. With TTCN 3, a universal test methodology for various
technologies is available – for 3GPP/UMTS, ATM, IP etc.
TTCN-3 unifies different test concepts and is in particular
suited for the use in distributed systems. TTCN-3 is a further
development of currently used test methods and enables more
intense, exhaustive and efficient tests. TTCN-3 makes testing
more comfortable and transparent; the results become concise
and clear with the graphical representation of test sequences
and results. Present test techniques can be converted towards
TTCN-3. Besides the mere TTCN-3 support, this conversion is
one of the special fields of Testing Technologies.
Testing Technologies IST was able to implement prematurely
the new features of TTCN-3 into its own products due to its
participation in the development of TTCN-3 standards:
- TTtwo2three supports
the migration from TTCN-2 to TTCN-3;
- TTspec offers
a graphical test development environment; based on the XML
technology it allows the easy customization to customers
needs;
- TTthree is
a TTCN-3 to Java Compiler, that supports the new TTCN-3 features
like test control, dynamic test configurations and enhanced
communication mechanism; test solutions for a variety of
computer architectures are available by choosing Java as
target language for this compiler.
The plattform independent testing tools can be used as standard-tools
or can be customized to specific needs. Testing Technologies
IST GmbH offers this and further services for the systematic
testing of complex systems in front of the market introduction
of systems, such that the risk for vendors, providers and end
users is kept as low as possible.
Contact
Testing Technologies
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Ms. Katrin Boening, Media Relations
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