TPLan-a notation for expressing test purposes

Authors:
Stephan Schulz;Anthony Wiles;Steve Randall
Affiliations:
European Telecommunications, Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis Cedex;European Telecommunications, Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis Cedex;PQM Consultants, Tutshill, Chepstow
Venue:
TestCom'07/FATES'07 Proceedings of the 19th IFIP TC6/WG6.1 international conference, and 7th international conference on Testing of Software and Communicating Systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

To this day test purposes are predominately defined in practice using natural language. This paper describes a more formal approach based on a notation which has been recently developed and standardized at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) called TPLan. We introduce here the motivation and main concepts behind this new notation, and share our experiences gathered from its application in the development of standardized test specifications. We also discuss how TPLan can help to make test development as a whole more efficient - especially in the context of suite based test specification.