Scope and Objectives

The aim of the conference is to provide opportunities to bring together practitioners and researchers in the field of testing of communicating systems. The conference will consist of presentations of reviewed and invited papers, demonstrations of tools, and panel and discussion sessions. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Types of testing:
Interoperability testing, Network Integration Testing, Conformance testing, Performance testing, Robustness testing, Regression testing.

Phases of testing:
Test case development, Test selection and management, Test configuration and execution, Test coverage and results analysis.

Classes of systems:
Internet protocols and services, Intelligent Networks, to be tested: Next Generation Networks (NGN), UMTS, Active networks, Ad-hoc networks, Middleware platforms, Multimedia systems, E-commerce systems.

Theory and Practise of testing:
Theoretical frameworks, Test specification, Test derivation, Validation and Analysis, Applications of testing theory, Industrial testing experience, Test standards, Test tools.