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History, status, and recent trends of the testing and test control notation version 3 (TTCN-3)

With a brief introduction to selected articles from the TTCN-3 user conference 2011

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This overview article presents the Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3) success story and serves as an introduction to this Special Section that contains five articles selected from the TTCN-3 user conference in 2011. The article sketches the development of TTCN-3 from its very beginning. It summarizes the current status of the language by reviewing its standardization process, available test suites, tools, and services as well as its training program. In addition, the article puts the articles selected for this Special Section into perspective, with regard to the evolution of TTCN-3 and the testing methodology in general. Last but not least, it discusses indicators for possible future developments of TTCN-3.

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Notes

  1. The contents of this section is inspired by presentations from Anthony Wiles and Os Monkewich given at past TTCN-3 user conferences [38, 44].

  2. A list of all former TTCN-3 user conferences events together with their given presentations can be found at http://www.ttcn-3.org/index.php/community/events.

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Acknowledgments

The editors of the special section wish to express their gratitude to all authors, reviewers, and the STTT editorial team for their contributions, help, and patience during the composition of this Special Section.

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    Jens Grabowski

  2. FU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

    Ina Schieferdecker

  3. Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

    Andreas Ulrich

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Grabowski, J., Schieferdecker, I. & Ulrich, A. History, status, and recent trends of the testing and test control notation version 3 (TTCN-3). Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 16, 215–225 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-014-0302-9

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