Software test breakthrough wins ITEA Achievement Award 2005
Tekes News - Tekes website, 19 October 2005
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The Board of ITEA – Information Technology for European Advancement, http://www.itea-office.org/ , has selected the TT-Medal (Test & testing methodologies for advanced languages) project as the winner of the ITEA 2005 Achievement Award. This project has achieved a major breakthrough by developing a generic standardised solution for software system testing.
TT-Medal, http://www.tt-medal.org/ , offers great potential for European industry to achieve a reduction in test development and test execution time in the near future and, at the same time, fulfil demands for high product quality. The results provide a unique opportunity for European test tool suppliers and consultants to position themselves better in a world market that has been dominated by the USA.
Testing is a fundamental step in the development of a software-intensive system as it checks the compliance of the system to user requirements. However, it is extremely difficult to achieve exhaustively due to the very nature of software. To meet market demands for better and faster development, testing such systems should become more effective, provide a better indication of product quality and be more efficient.
The methods and tools developed in TT-Medal were validated in several demonstrators in the automotive, railway, financial and telecommunication application domains, proving the feasibility of a significant improvement in test efficiency, effectiveness and product quality. The results were disseminated through an impressive number of papers and publications, as well at several conferences, and laid out in a test training package that includes a book on TTCN-3 testing.
The TT-Medal project involved 67 person years and a budget of 9 million Euros. It teamed up 11 partners – including telecommunications manufacturers, software test tool suppliers, software test consultancy firms, academia and research centres working in the testing research domain – from three European countries, including Finland.
TT-Medal was part of Tekes' NETS - Networks of the Futute technology programme. Project leader was Nokia and the other three participants Conformiq Software, NetHawk and VTT.
