TTsuite-M3UA

The Test Suite for Analyzing the M3UA Peers Signaling Gateway and Application Server


Features

• 196 full-featured tests for M3UA peers including
• ASP State Maintenance
• ASP Traffic Maintenance
• Message Transfer
• Routing Key Management
• SS7 Signalling Network Management
• SCTP Connection Management
• Tests for valid, invalid and inopportune M3UA protocol behavior
• Exhaustive set of context parameters for a flexible adaptation of the M3UA tests to a M3UA implementations under tests
• Fully automated test execution
• Platform-independent test execution
• Test tracing on different levels of detail
• Test definition and documentation in the standardized test notation TTCN-3

Applications

• Media Gateway
• Gateway Mobile Switching Center
• TRNC
• Signalling Gateway
• Application Server
• Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)

Benefits

• Standards-based testing according to M3UA specifications
• Fast and simple test execution and analysis
• Repeatability of tests and full support of test automation
• Platform independence and rapid integration in existing test environments
• Flexibility through usage of the constantly evolving standardized test notation TTCN-3

	Test Management, Execution and Analysis for M3UA

Standards

• RFC 2960, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol", SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol, 2000-10
• RFC 3309, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Checksum Change", update RFC 2960, 2002-09
• RFC 3332, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA), 2002-09
• Draft RFC 3332 bis, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA), 2004-09.
• RFC 4666, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA), 2006-09
• ETSI TS 102 381 V1.1.1, Methods for Testing and Specifications (MTS); SS7 Message Transfer Part 3 - User Adaptation Layer; (IETF RFC 3332); Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes (TSS&TP), 2004-12
• ISO/IEC 9646-1: "Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Conformance testing methodology and framework - Part 1: General concepts".
• ISO/IEC 9646-2: "Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Conformance testing methodology and framework - Part 2: Abstract Test Suite specification".
• ETSI ES 201 873-1 TTCN-3 Core Language V4.1.1, 2009-06

Reference Platforms

• Java 6
• Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit) / Vista / XP / 2000
• Linux Red Hat - v7.1 (x86/GTK)
• Linux SuSE - v9.1 (x86/GTK)

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