AN AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY FOR ABSTRACT TEST SUITES |
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| 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
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-2002-116.pdf
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