During TTCN-3 User Conference 2007, held in Stockholm, Sweden between May 29 and June 1, 2007, a number of users of various TTCN-3 tools expressed an increased concern about the quality of TTCN-3 tool implementations during the conference presentations. Some participants commented that these types of problems are so common that according to them "These problems are TTCN-3 language issues, not tool issues." Vesa-Matti Puro of OpenTTCN says that "TTCN-3 tool vendors shall look into the mirror if users are regarding these types of errors commonplace and acceptable." Vesa-Matti Puro is convinced that "Something shall be done" to increase user confidence in TTCN-3 tools.

OpenTTCN Oy challenges all TTCN-3 tool users and vendors to co-operate and jointly increase the overall confidence in TTCN-3 tools. OpenTTCN Oy offers a reward of up to 1000 Euros* for information leading to capture of the most irritating and harmful error found in any commercial TTCN-3 tool, including OpenTTCN Tester for TTCN-3. In this years challenge, errors causing a TTCN-3 test system to crash or errors causing a TTCN-3 test system to produce incorrect test results by means of correct or incorrect TTCN-3 code are eligible.

If you wish to receive the OpenTTCN Tester for TTCN-3 evaluation copy for the contest, please fill the form at http://www.openttcn.com/Highlights/RegisterNow/. After submitting the evaluation copy request, send an email to sales@openttcn.fi and tell that you want to evaluate our tool and participate in T3TCRC2007.

Complete issue reports submitted to OpenTTCN Oy by December 31st, 2007 may enter the TTCN-3 Tool Correctness and Robustness Challenge 2007. Issue reports are accepted starting from July 5, 2007.

Official Rules of the competition (PDF)

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Contact person
Riku Tarkiainen
riku.tarkiainen@openttcn.fi

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