Dear all,

the submission deadline for the International Journal STTT, Special
Section on "Past, Present and Future of TTCN-3" is approaching.

You can upload your article by using the following link:
sttt.cs.tu-dortmund.de/sttt-ttcn-3/servlet/Conference

Best regards
Ina, Andreas and Jens


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International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
Special Section

Past, Present and Future of TTCN-3 -
A Decade of Testing with a Standardized Test Technology

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Important Dates:

Submission of full papers: 18 November 2011
Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2012
Submission of revised papers: 17 February 2012
Second round of reviews completed: 16 March 2012
Submission of camera ready papers: 13 April 2012


Scope and Objectives:

In 2011, the Testing and Test Control Notation, version 3 (TTCN-3)
celebrated its 10th anniversary: Since the publication of the first
standard in 2001, TTCN-3 has become a standardized and widely
established test automation language in industry, with deployments in
telecommunication, transportation, the medical domain, Internet
technologies, and others. Its versatility ensures its effective role
in functional testing, conformance and interoperability testing,
real-time, performance, load and stress testing, and security testing.

Identifying future challenges of testing is and has always been a key
concern to keep TTCN-3 a modern and innovative testing technology and
thereby protecting existing investments in test automation. During its
lifespan, TTCN-3 has been constantly improved to cope with upcoming
requirements and new demands from application domains. Recent shifts
in the technology to develop complex systems, the way how development
and test projects are organized, and coverage of new application areas
will have further impacts on the TTCN-3 language itself and its use.

This STTT Special Section on "Past, Present and Future of TTCN-3 -- A
Decade of Testing with a Standardized Test Technology" reviews the
TTCN-3 success story and addresses the challenges imposed on TTCN-3
that lie ahead. We invite presenters of all TTCN-3 User Conferences to
submit original papers explaining the motivation, results and
technical details of their work being presented. The papers may
comprise further developments and experiences gained from the author's
work since then. In addition, we invite the TTCN-3 community,
including test managers, testers, tool providers, consultants and
researchers, to submit original articles describing their experiences
with TTCN-3 in their daily work.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Practical experiences of using TTCN-3 in industry
- Experiences from applying TTCN-3 to various kinds of testing such
as conformance, interoperability, performance, load, stress, and
security testing;
- Practical results from integrating TTCN-3 into existing test
frameworks, test platforms and test devices;
- Achievements in using TTCN-3 in integrated software design and
testing;
- Development of test frameworks and test patterns using TTCN-3;
- Evaluations of TTCN-3 based testing solutions, also in comparison
with other testing technologies;
- Experiences in training and educating in TTCN-3.

* Achievements from different application domains such as
- Mobile and broadband telecommunication, telematics;
- Intelligent Transport Systems (e.g. vehicle-to-vehicle and
vehicle-to-roadside communication, toll collection);
- Transportation (e.g. automotive, aerospace, rail);
- Medical systems and eHealth;
- IT systems (e.g. Web services, cloud computing).

* Current and future challenges of testing with TTCN-3, e.g.
- New testing requirements from emerging technologies and new
application areas;
- New development paradigms (e.g. model-driven engineering);
- Examples of good business cases for the use of TTCN-3;
- Usage of TTCN-3 in new development processes (e.g. agile
processes, open source development);
- Use of TTCN-3 for validating security aspects (e.g. security goal
evaluation, vulnerability testing).


Submission Details:

All submissions should follow the instruction guidelines given at
sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de/for-authors.html

We ask for original industrial experience reports of 8 to 10 pages
length and original research papers of 16 to 20 pages length.

Guest editors of the special section:
* Jens Grabowski, University of Goettingen
* Ina Schieferdecker, FU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS
* Andreas Ulrich, Siemens AG, Munich

For further information, please contact:
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