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Conformance testing of TINA service components - The TTCN/CORBA gateway

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Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services (IS&N 1998)

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This paper considers conformance testing of TINA service components in the realm of the ITU-T conformance testing methodology, which provides the only standardized, well accepted and widely used test methodology and test notation TTCN. It discusses the use of TTCN for testing computational objects of service components and proposes an implementation approach to derive executable tests from TTCN, which can be executed on any CORBA compliant ORB (with minor efforts for ORB specific adaptation) to check the functional correctness of deployed service components in distributed object environments. The TTCN/CORBA gateway is a general approach for testing distributed systems. TINA is taken as an example in this paper only. The work presented has been partially supported by the EC ACTS project TOSCA-TINA Open Service Creation Architecture, AC237.

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  1. GMD FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Ina Schieferdecker, Mang Li & Andreas Hoffmann

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Sebastiano Trigila Al Mullery Mario Campolargo Hans Vanderstraeten Marcel Mampaey

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Schieferdecker, I., Li, M., Hoffmann, A. (1998). Conformance testing of TINA service components - The TTCN/CORBA gateway. In: Trigila, S., Mullery, A., Campolargo, M., Vanderstraeten, H., Mampaey, M. (eds) Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services. IS&N 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1430. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056984

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