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ETSI MTS Open Session on TTCN-3 (cont.)

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Published on Monday, 06 January 2025 12:00

Invitation to ETSI MTS Open Session on new TTCN-3 major release (continuation)

When: 28 January 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Where: ETSI, 650 Route des Lucioles, 06560 Valbonne - Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE

Background:
The TTCN-3 testing language has intensively been developed by ETSI during the last 20 years. By today, TTCN-3 has become a significantly important testing technology in different domains. The last major release of the TTCN-3 standards was published in 2009 with version 4.1.1. Since then TTCN-3 was constantly maintained and further developed.

Motivation:
The TTCN-3 language specification has reached the state where modernization and refactoring are required. Currently, language maintenance has become complex, since even small corrections and extensions require changes in many different places in the TTCN-3 language specification and extension packages. Also, TTCN-3 users suffer from this kind of complexity, because specific aspects of a language feature may be spread across different sections and documents. This decrease learning, understanding and, finally, acceptance of TTCN-3.

The goal of this Open Session is to have an open discussion with TTCN-3 users, tool provider and standardization experts to discuss requirements and ideas towards a new major release of the TTCN-3 standards. In 2023/2024 the members of the ETSI TTFs for TTCN-3 maintenance have already started the analysis and collection of technical issues for this new major release. The ETSI TTF T040 (https://portal.etsi.org/xtfs/#/xTF/T040/) currently is collecting further proposals regarding a modernization and innovations of TTCN-3. This event is a continuation of the previous Open Workshop in September 2024.

This Open Session is open for ETSI members and non-ETSI members. It is also planned to provide the possibility of remote participation. Interested persons are asked to register on the ETSI portal at registration. If you have any problems or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the TTF T040 project manager Jens Grabowski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and/or Axel Rennoch (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Agenda:
- Introduction to the status and maintenance of the current TTCN-3 standards.
- Proposals from the workshop participants
- Discussion of technical proposals and initial prioritization
- Summary and planning of next steps

Practical Information:
You may find further information about the location and hotels at https://www.etsi.org/about/find-us.

New ticket system for TTCN-3 Change Requests

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Published on Thursday, 12 December 2024 09:27

The official TTCN-3 ticket system for change requests have migrated from the old mantis (t-ort) to ETSI gitlab. You will find further details via Change Requests.

TTCN-3 questionnaire 2024 results

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Published on Wednesday, 20 November 2024 10:40

The results from the TTCN-3 questionnaire have been collected and are available for the TTCN-3 community. The answers have been anonymized and can be retrieved here. Any interested user (group) may submit additional answers using the excel files here.

Furthermore the minutes from the ETSI MTS Open Session on new TTCN-3 major release are available here.

TTCN-3 part 1 (2024) V4.16.1 published

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Published on Friday, 01 November 2024 07:08

ETSI ES 201 873-1 V4.16.1 (2024-10) has entered the public domain with status: Publication. You might also want to check the Work Programme.

Release notes TTCN-3 core notation ES 201 873-1 v4.16.1

1.    Section 3.1 (Terms) - New/updated definitions:

• core type
• parent type
• super type
• root type

2.    Section 6.2.15 (Map types) – Clarification:

• map type is a structured data/value type, not a reference type

3.    Section 11.1 (Value variables): Change of restriction

• Type requirement of value variable assignment now is less restrictive.

4.    Section 15.8.2 (Implicit restrictions for template fields, alternatives and elements):

• Addition of restrictions for map or parameters of a signature template

5.    Section B.1.5.0 (Table B.1: List of TTCN 3 pattern metacharacters):

• Metacharacter definitions changed reference from Recommendation ITU T T.50 to ISO/IEC 10646

In addition several typos in paragraphs and examples have been corrected.
 

Homepage link changed

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Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2024 09:53

Please note that the TTCN-3 homepage link has changed from "https://www.ttcn-3.org" to "https://ttcn-3.etsi.org". You may need to update your links since there is no redirection.