Abstract

TTCN-3 is a standardized language for specifying and executing test
suites that is particularly popular for testing embedded systems.
Prior to testing embedded software in a target environment, the
software is usually tested in the host environment. Executing in
the host environment often aspects the real-time behavior of the
software and, consequently, the results of real-time testing. Here
we provide a semantics for host-based testing with simulated time
and show which kind of timing constraints can be adequately tested
with simulated time. We provide a simulated-time solution for
distributed testing with TTCN-3. We also report on two case studies
where we used simulated time for testing with TTCN-3.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{BDIKPRS-PSI06,
  author      = "Stefan Blom and Thomas Dei{\ss} and Natalia Ioustinova and
                 Ari Kontio and Jaco van de Pol and Axel Rennoch and
                 Natalia Sidorova",
  title       = "TTCN-3 for Distributed Testing Embedded Software",
  booktitle   = "Proceedings of the 6th International Andrei Ershov
                 Memorial Conference: Perspectives of System Informatics",
  series      = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume      = 4378,
  pages       = "98--111",
  publisher   = "Springer-Verlag",
  year        = 2007
}