Configuration and Execution Support for Distributed Tests

This paper presents means to test the functionality, scalability and performance of distributed telecommunication applications based on CORBA ORBs. It presents generic tools for testing the functionality, performance, robustness and scalability of distributed systems. The tools cover the test suite simulator TSsim for validating concurrent test suites, the TTCN/CORSA gateway TCgate for automated execution of the test cases (including a generic coder/decoder component), and the test manager TTman to setup and parameterize the test configuration and to control the test execution. The emphasis of this paper is on TTman and its scripting facilities. Exemplarily, a TINA access session which is part of the TINA platform developed by GMD FOKUS is considered.