TC MTS – Questionnaire on the Test Description Language
Introduction
The following questionnaire has been designed to collect feedback from partners working in the area of testing of reactive and communicating systems which already got first experiences in the use of the ETSI Test Description Language (TDL) or deploy similar technologies (languages and tools) to specify tests prior to test implementation and execution. It is sent to persons who showed their interest in TDL by joining the TDL mailing list or attending the ETSI webinar on “Getting started with TDL” and to participants of the ETSI UCAAT conference.
If you are new to TDL, the following section provides a brief overview about the technology that is deemed sufficient to answer the questionnaire.
Answering the questionnaire requires about 7 min. Your feedback will help us to improve TDL and related tooling to better cope with demands from practice. Thank you.
Please note that the term test specification language in the following questionnaire refers to TDL and any other related technology for the specification of tests such as Gherkin if not noted otherwise.
Brief Introduction to TDL ETSI TDL is a specification language designed by the ETSI Technical Committee on Methods for Testing and Specification (MTS).
Its main purpose is to support the specification of test objectives and high-level test descriptions used for the standardization of conformance and interoperability tests for reactive and communicating systems. In addition TDL can be used to visualize test logs produced from test runs. TDL offers different representation formats (e.g. textual or graphical) that can be tuned to better suite different application domains and stakeholders. This flexibility makes TDL a suitable technology in the context of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and therefore also applicable to general test projects in industry.
The TDL Open Source Project (TOP) has been created to kick-start the use of TDL. For more information see tdl.etsi.org.
