Testing of Communicating Systems Tools and Techniques. IFIP TC6/WG6.1 13th International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TestCom 2000), August 29–September 1, 2000, Ottawa, Canada

Testing of Communicating Systems presents the latest international results in both the theory and industrial practice of the testing of communicating systems. The topics discussed range from tools and techniques for testing to test standards, frameworks, notations, algorithms, fundamentals of testing, and industrial experiences and issues. The tools and techniques discussed apply to conformance testing, interoperability testing, performance testing of communications software, Internet protocols and applications, and multimedia and distributed systems in general, such as systems for electronic commerce.
This volume contains the extensively refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TestCom 2000), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in early September 2000.
Testing of Communicating Systems is essential reading for engineers, designers, managers of IT products and services, and all researchers interested in advancing the technology of engineering Internet frameworks, systems, services, and applications for reliability and quality.

I Test Suite Coverage and Verification.- 1 Verification of Test Suites.- 2 Structural Coverage For LOTOS — a Probe Insertion Technique.- 3 Fault Detection Power of a Widely Used Test Suite for a System of Communicating FSMs.- II Testability and Test Feasibility.- 4 Determination of Test Configurations for Pair-Wise Interaction Coverage.- 5 Incremental Testing at System Reference Points.- 6 Generation of Feasible Test Sequences for EFSM Models.- III Interoperability Testing of Internet Protocols.- 7 Experiments on IPv6 Testing.- 8 Interoperability Test Suite Generation for the TCP Data Part Using Experimental Design Techniques.- 9 Interoperability Testing System of TCP/IP Based Communication Systems in Operational Environment.- IV TTCN Evolution and Application.- 10 On the Design of the New Testing Language TTCN-3.- 11 HTTP Performance Evaluation with TTCN.- 12 Conformance Testing of CORBA Services Using TTCN.- V Test Automation and Industrial Testing Experience.- 13 Formal Test Automation: the Conference Protocol with PHACT.- 14 Formal Test Automation: the Conference Protocol with TGV/TORX.- 15 Functional Testing GPRS Support Nodes using TTCN.- 16 The Test Sub Group (TSG): A Cooperative Approach to Improve the Release Quality before Type Acceptance.- VI Real-Time Testing.- 17 Verification and Testing of Concurrent Systems with Action Races.- 18 An Approach for Testing Real Time Protocol Entities.- 19 Test Generation in the Presence of Conflicting Timers.- Author Index.