An introduction to the testing and test control notation (TTCN-3)

Computer Networks

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 375-403

  Grabowski, Jens ^a   Hogrefe, Dieter ^a   Réthy, György ^b   Schieferdecker, Ina ^c   Wiles, Anthony ^d   Willcock, Colin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Hungary)

^c FRAUNHOFER FOKUS   (Germany)

^d European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)   (France)

^e NOKIA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black box testing; Distributed systems testing; ETSI; Standardization; Test implementation; Test languages; Test specification; TTCN; TTCN 3

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDIZATION;

TEST CONTROL;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 0037501473     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00249-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

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