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While protocol conformance testing methodology is a well formalized field, radio testing methodology still relies on natural language specifications. This paper proposes an improvement on the quality of radio test specifications via the use of formal notation TTCN. This approach, and the fact that protocol and radio conformance testing share most of the underlying concepts, enables the use of a generic architecture for implementations of both types of testers, resulting in a reduction of the development efforts. This architecture has been validated with the implementation of radio test cases for the UMTS technology.
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Poncela-González, J., Gómez-Salvador, J., Valero-Roldán, C., Fernández-Plazaola, U. (2007). Using TTCN for Radio Conformance Test Systems. In: Gaudin, E., Najm, E., Reed, R. (eds) SDL 2007: Design for Dependable Systems. SDL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4745. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74984-4_5
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