The TT-Medal Finnish consortium includes Nokia, VTT Electronics, NetHawk, and Conformiq. The partners of the TT-Medal Finnish consortium collaborated on national level in addition to European wide collaboration. The national level collaboration is depicted in Figure 1. Nokia provided the industrial case study, and together with project partners executed and evaluated the methods and tools, which are developed by the Finnish consortium partners. VTT Electronics worked with methodologies and processes which will be utilized in test development of TTCN-3; NetHawk aimed to build test execution platforms where produced test suites can be utilized in the real HW environment; and Conformiq focused on test development tools which will generate TTCN-3 test suites as well as validate hand written TTCN-3 tests.

The objective of VTT Electronics in the TT-Medal project was to develop methods to systematically define tests using TTCN-3, to enable re-use in testing, and define testing infrastructures. VTT Electronics aimed to develop methods for reuse of tests between testing phases in a product, between product generations, and between products both on abstract and test system implementation level as well as define testing infrastructures for different kinds of tests and methods to use the infrastructures. Finally, generic for reuse and with reuse process descriptions for test development was defined.

The focus of Nokia was on the application of testing technology in the industrial domain. A trial test system was developed in cooperation with the project partners.

Testing instruments and test systems will be required to be less tailored and more open in the future. Especially targeting an integrated testing environment for software integration (workstation) testing and system (laboratory) testing, and especially with re-usable test case specification (in TTCN-3) in both, will require this. Going towards this direction is clear, and for a testing instrument and testing system provider like NetHawk this means developing higher level and more general interfaces and related SW and HW modules between instruments and other testing system components, especially TTCN-3 run time tools. As being developed in TT-Medal, these SW add-on's to conventional NetHawk instruments will make NetHawk capable to provide plug-ability and easier integration to the new testing environments, and as such, increase the competence of NetHawk and keep it also on the leading edge of testing system technologies. As a test instrument manufacturer, NetHawk aimed to produce TTCN-3 capable test instruments to the industrial cases lead by Nokia. With these instruments results of the TT-Medal project can be deployed in later phases of testing, which will be executed in real HW environment.

In the TT-Medal project Conformiq focused on model-based testing techniques and in particular automatic test case generation from both test and system models. In this project the focus was specifically on generation of TTCN-3 test cases. Another area of interest was a process that inherently supports model-based testing and test-driven development.