TTCN-3 Success Stories

Used at ETSI for development of conformance test implementation for

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Voice over IP (VoIP)
• IPv6 (Core, Mobility, Security)
• Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) and digital Private Mobile Radio (dPMR)
• HiperMAN / WiMax
• 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) user equipment
• TISPAN IMS network with ISDN and ISUP
• etc

Accepted by industry

• Use spread into a variety of new application areas, e.g., telecom, automotive, railway, financial
  (see www.tt-medal.org*)
• Motorola reports doubling of testing productivity at TTCN-3 User Conference 2005
• Nokia experiences captured in IEEE Software Journal 23(4) 2006
• 3GPP RAN5* selects TTCN-3 in early 2007 to be the language of choice for their long term evolution (lte)* conformance test suites from Release 8 onwards
• Ericsson reports 1,837 active licenses at TTCN-3 User Conference 2007
• Huawei reports 200,000 lines of code and 1,500 users of internal TTCN-3 tool at TTCN-3 User Conference Asia 2007
• The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)* established a permanent group under its interoperability (IOP) working group for dealing with TTCN-3 issues in 2007
• In 2008 WiMax Forum* begins certification of products with validated TTCN-3 test cases
• In 2008 Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR)* - the partnership of automotive OEMs - adopts TTCN-3 for their conformance test specification

TTCN-3 has expanded into new kinds of testing

• Software module testing
• Layer/unit testing
• Integration testing
• Distributed systems testing

Used beyond Europe

• Strong community in China (TTCN-3 Standard in Chinese)

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