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Program Outline
Tutorial is based on example what is used throw whole course. Example includes System Under Test (SUT), System Adapter (SA) and TTCN-3 code.
All participants will be granted with TestCast Professional license during the course and for 1-month period after the course.

Day 1
Introduction (9:00 – 9:15)
Elvior and lecturer introduction
Course outline for both days

Lecture 1 – Introduction to SW test automation and TTCN-3 (9:15 – 10:15)
SW test automation main concepts (scope of the course)
Main concepts of SW test automation
Black box versus white box testing
Introduction to TTCN-3
History
Development and maintenance
Main concepts
TTCN-3 resources

Break (10:15 – 10:30)

Lecture 2 – TTCN-3 by example (preamble for practical exercise) (10:30 – 12:00)
Comparison of TTCN-3 with other programming languages
TTCN-3 architecture (TTCN-3 in a nutshell)
TTCN-3 module
Main principles and syntax
TTCN-3 types
Testing configuration
Verdict mechanism
Templates and matching mechanism
TTCN-3 test suite
Main building blocks
Structure and examples

Lunch (12:00 – 13:00)

Lecture 3 – Practical exercise (13:00 – 15:00)
TestCast introduction (30 minutes)
TestCast project
TTCN-3 editor, compiler and execution
Practical example (1.5 hours)
SUT description
Test implementation by students
Test run by students
Q&A (10) minutes

Break (15:00 – 15.15)

Lecture 4 – TTCN-3 core language (15:15 – 16:30)
Basic types and concepts
Scopes
Grouping
Import statement
Structured types
Sub-typing
Operations
Basic program statements
Control block
Verdicts
Advanced concepts
Type compatibility
TTCN-3 attributes
Timers
ALT statement
Test system configuration

Closure of day 1 (16:30 – 17:00)
Summary of day 1 (15 minutes)
Q&A (15 minutes)

Day 2

Lecture 5 – TTCN-3 language features: behavior (9:00 – 10:15)
Functions
Predefined functions
External functions
Parameter passing modes
Behavior trees
Snapshot mechanism
ALT statement
Altstep
Interleave
Default mechanism
Test cases
Structure
Preamble
Post-amble
Execution
Time guarding
Verdicts

Break (10:15-10:30)

Lecture 6 - TTCN-3 language features: communication and configuration (10:30-12:00)
Communication
Ports
Test components
Message sending and receiving
Test System interface (TSI)
Abstract TSI
Real TSI
TRI and TCI basics
Configuration operations
map/unmap
connect/disconnect
Concurrency in TTCN-3
MTC
Parallel test components
Test System interface (TSI), TRI and TCI basics

Lunch (12:00 – 13:00)

Lecture 8 – Practical exercise on configuration operations. (13:00-15:00)
Practical implementation of TTCN-3 code (1 hour)
Using mtc and parallel test components
Connecting 2 test components
Executing test scripts
Practical set up of test environment using TestCast and its built in adapters (1 hour)
Configuring TestCast built in adapter
Setting up test environment
TestCast 1 – the SUT simulator
TestCast 2 – the tester
UDP adapter – the SA
Sending and receiving message between 2 TestCasts.

Break (15:00 – 15:15)

Lecture 9 – TTCN-3 advanced topics (15:15-16:30)
Advanced data types
Advanced matching mechanisms
Inline templates
Procedure based communication
TRI and TCI standardization and tool specific implementation frameworks
ASN.1 support in TTCN-3
XML support in TTCN-3
TTCN-3 extension packages

Closure of day 2 (16:30 – 17:00)
Summary of day 2
Hand over of participation certificates
Q&A

Program Takeaways
Basic knowledge about TTCN-3
Know-how of TTCN-3 test system architecture
Know-how of TTCN-3 external interfaces
Certificate of Participation
Post Class Support & Tutoring (available on request)

Why should you attend this course
TTCN-3 is a secure investment:
TTCN has has been used for more than 15 years
Constantly developed and maintained at ETSI
Well provided support and common methodology
Internationally standardized testing language (TTCN-3)
Specifically designed for testing and certification 
It has been proved to work in very large and complex industrial tests, e.g 3GPP LTE, Wimax and IPv6 etc.
A testing technology that applies to a variety of application domains and types of testing

What do I (or my engineers) gain on learning of TTCN-3?
Knowing TTCN-3 saves time and money:
Offers potential for reducing training and test maintenance costs significantly
TTCN-3 is easy to learn
There exists pre-developed TTCN-3 test scripts by ETSI
Increases testing productivity and enables more test cycles
Test script generation can be automatic by using model-based testing
Offers potential for reducing training and test maintenance costs significantly

Where in industry is TTCN used?
TCN-3 has strong market presence:
TTCN-3 is used and promoted by ETSI
TTCN-3 has proven track record of users (Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Siemens, Vodafone, EMT, France Telecom, O2, Rohde & Schwarz, Aeroflox, etc)
TTCN-3 has been increasing the presence in other domains

Faculty:

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Workshop Methodology
Instructor Led Training with exercises and discussions on real life situations.

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