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This paper shares our experiences in using SDL to unit test TTCN-2 scripts written for the conformance testing of 3G UMTS protocols. The tool used in this assignment was Telelogic TauTM, which provided a way of bridging SDL and TTCN-2. Telelogic calls this feature “co-simulation”, which allows testing SDL applications using TTCN without the need for writing target adaptation, environment, and encoding and decoding parts. This paper describes how the co-simulation feature was used the other way around, i.e., to check TTCN protocol conformance test cases. The work was carried out to test a TTCN test suite for inter system handover protocol conformance (3G to 2G). The experiment successfully demonstrates the capabilities of co-simulation and its benefits in developing TTCN test cases, particularly when target test equipments are under development.
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Jain, P., Nandan, A. (2005). Validating Wireless Protocol Conformance Test Cases. In: Amyot, D., Williams, A.W. (eds) System Analysis and Modeling. SAM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31810-1_19
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