Test execution of telecommunications services using CORBA

Abstract

Even though there are many testing methods for telecommunication systems very little has been said about test execution in distributed environments. This paper addresses this problem and proposes the implementation and test of telecommunication services on a CORBA-like platform. We present a test architecture for distributed systems and describe system components and test execution phases. An implementation solution is also proposed. The application is illustrated by the implementation of a telecommunication service: the BCS (Basic Call Service).

Shortening Test Case Execution Time for Embedded Software

“…Lima and Cavalli [15] proposed a general CORBAbased test architecture for telecommunication services aiming testing execution in distributed environments. Their test architecture for an open distributed objectoriented platform has two sets of components: tester components and components under test that are (possibly) distributed over several sites.…”

Different Approaches to Protocol and Service Testing

“…Our works in this area aim at implementing and validating services on top of a TINA-CORBA like platform [25]. In the following we will provide a short presentation of the implementation and validation phases that we have developed in our test platform.…”

“…It concerns active test generation, passive testing, embedded testing, test execution and their application to real protocols and services. This work is mainly a work developed by my research group at INT, by myself and my PhD students [24,9,26,27,28,33,19,25] but it is also the result of collaborations with colleagues from CNET [3,6], Bell Labs [4,10] and academic collaborations [5,36,35,14]. It concerns different aspects of testing, that we have studied in the last years.…”

“…We considered that it was interesting to execute the tests on a distributed environment in order to test systems implementations obtained from formal specifications. We have therefore developed an execution test platform into a CORBA environment [25].…”

Application of embedded testing methods to service validation

“…We have started a work in this direction proposing solutions for service implementation and tests execution on a CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) platform. The first results of this work are presented in [15].…”