Dear Customer,

a new maintenance release of TTworkbench, version 1.1.5, is now available for download. TTworkbench Professional was enhanced by a new feature, the Runtime Plugin Development Environment for designing your own plugins. This release also brings many feature improvements as well as a new port plugin for TCP.

Please Note:

TTworkbench 1.1.5 is not compatible with current versions of our TTsuite and TTplugin product line. While TTplugin updates are available on our download and update site, you will get informed separately when the respective TTsuite product update is available.

Beginning with this release the logging interface TciTLProvided is deprecated. It was replaced by the new standard compliant interface TciTLProvided321TT. Support for the interface TciTLProvided and all deprecated logging methods will be discontinued by December 2008.

Users of TTworkbench Professional have to get in contact with Testing Technologies' support team to get a license key for the newly introduced Runtime Plugin Development Environment.

What's New?

General

• Support of TTCN-3 edition 3.3.2 (TTCN-3:2008)
• Support of TCI-TL 3.2.1 logging
• Runtime Plugin Development Environment feature for TTworkbench Professional
  • Comfortable editor speeding up test development
  • Intuitive framework for developing TTCN-3 runtime extension plugins
  • Editing in a plain mode as well as in a GUI assisted mode for all features of a TTCN-3 runtime plugin

TTCN-3 Core Language Editor (CL Editor)

• Extended auto-completion
  • Modules for 'import from'
  • Available languages after 'language' (for module declaration and imports)
  • Variables after 'value', 'sender', 'to', 'from'
  • Port types after 'port'
  • Ports after 'mtc:', 'system:'
  • Altsteps after 'activate'
  • Verdict after 'setverdict'
  • No matches: all keywords and all top level declarations are shown
• Model-based configurable code formatter
• Incremental build now checks for change in exported signature of changed module
• TTCN-3 markers in non TTCN-3 source folders are removed upon build of project
• Local parameterized templates do not generate wrong error messages during model build

TTCN-3 Compiler (TTthree)

• Support of TTCN-3 edition 3.3.2 (TTCN-3:2008)
  • New predefined functions 'enum2int' and 'isvalue'
  • Template restriction: 'template(omit)'
  • 'Objid' treated like string type (predefined function 'decomp' deprecated)
• Usage of '-' in an assignment is now clearly treated as unchanged
• Generation of default test campaign: check/warning if sources changed since compilation
• 'char' and 'universal char' invalid as per version TTCN-3:2008
• Useful function 'regexp0' supported as built-in function
• Check for non-altstep invocations in alt statements
• Explicit omit no longer allowed in list notation of 'record of'/array values
• Default CLF generation only for visible test cases

Test Execution (TTman)

• Generation of test reports in MS Word XML format
• Textual Logging View allows copying of log events to clipboard
  • Right click on respective log event
• Textual logging export of selected test runs or a whole test suite to a plain-text log format
  • Export dropdown menu for exporting the whole run/log
  • Right-click context menu for selected runs/test cases
• Test Data View: Integers can now be shown as Hex values (new button: blue square)
• Test report generated from the command line also includes graphical logging

TTCN-3 Debugger (TTdebug)

• Editing of template variables (without constraint editing)
• Support of default, component, timer and port references in Variables View
• General improvement of performance while stepping

New: TTplugin TCP (Port Plugin)

• Send and receive messages over TCP
• Multiple test components and multiple-port mapping
• Support of port arrays
• Running as TCP client, TCP server or as both

TTplugin MOST

• Support for MOST High
• Improved codec generation for FCat catalogs with high number of function definitions

TTplugin WSDL

• Tester as server (implementing a web service in TTCN-3)

TTplugin IDL

• Get/set attribute
• Direct addressing of server ORB
• Enhanced manual

TTplugin ASN.1

• For BIT STRING types with named bits, bitstrings of the same length are generated
  

Update of TTworkbench Express/Basic/Professional

You can download TTworkbench with your already given Reference ID:

(a) Via Update Site

• Choose the menu item 'Help' in TTworkbench and follow 'Software Updates'/'Find
  and Install'/'Search for updates of the currently installed features'
• Enter 'TTwb' as user name and your TTworkbench Reference ID as password
• Choose TTworkbench product
• Select TTworkbench
• Accept license and update files

(b) Via Home Page

• www.testingtech.com/support/downloads.php
• On request, please enter your TTworkbench Reference ID

It is Testing Technologies' intention to provide our customers with the highest level of customer service. Please direct all questions and inquiries to our support team using our ticket system or ttcn3-support@testingtech.com.

Thank you for your continued interest.


With best regards,
Dirk Borowski