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Published: 20 August 2024

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

When: 09 September 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

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 results of the questionnaire towards a new major release of the TTCN-3 standards. In 2023/24 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 Open Session is 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 https://portal.etsi.org/Meetings.aspx#/meeting?MtgId=48321. If you have any problems or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the TTF T040 project manager, e.g. 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 questionnaire of the current TTCN-3 standards.
• Proposals from the participants
• Discussion of technical proposals and initial prioritization
• Summary and planning of next steps

Practical Information: You may find further information about the location at https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/619480.html.

The public presentation slides from the event are available HERE (PDF).

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Published: 01 August 2024

ETSI started work on TTCN-3 new major revision. The Testing Task Force (TTF) T040 project started today the work on the next TTCN-3 major revision. You may find the project Terms of Reference (ToR) and other project related information via https://portal.etsi.org/xtfs/#/xTF/T040/terms-of-reference.

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Published: 03 July 2024

The Call for UCAAT 2025 is open. You may find the details via https://www.etsi.org/events/upcoming-events/2420-2025-04-11th-ucaat-user-conference-on-advanced-automated-testing#pane-6/.

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Published: 05 June 2024

ETSI published a new call for TTCN-3 experts regarding the development of a new major revision of the TTCN-3 language and TTCN-3 tool conformance tests. Interested experts may have a look to the application details.

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Published: 16 January 2024

Invitation to an open TTCN-3 workshop

When: 23 January 2024, 1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where: Fraunhofer FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin, Germany

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 workshop 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 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. Initial results can be found via ETSI’s Bug Tracker, e.g. in attached files at http://oldforge.etsi.org/mantis/view.php?id=8180. The ETSI TTF T032 (https://portal.etsi.org/xtfs/#/xTF/T032/) currently is collecting further proposals regarding a modernization and innovations of TTCN-3.

This workshop 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 https://portal.etsi.org/Meetings.aspx#/meeting?MtgId=47261. If you have any problems or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the TTF T032 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.fokus.fraunhofer.de/contact.