The TT-Medal German consortium has four project partners: Fraunhofer FOKUS (Berlin), Testing Technologies IST (Berlin), DaimlerChrysler (Berlin), and Nokia (Bochum). On the national level, these companies collaborated in five work packages which were related to the TT-Medal ITEA work-packages as follows: the industrial case studies which were planned in ITEA WP4 are undertaken in two separate national work packages while activities for ITEA WP2 and WP3 were combined in one single work package on test development and execution tools. This work package structure reflected the characteristics of the German consortium which consisted of two industrial users of test technology, one tool provider and one research partner. Fraunhofer FOKUS (FOK) lead the methodology work, Testing Technologies (TT) the test tool work, and both DaimlerChrysler (DC) and Nokia (NOK) lead a separate case study work package. All partners were involved in the exploitation and dissemination (WP5) and the project management work. In the context of the other ITEA work packages the industrial users focus on WP3 and WP4, the tool provider focused effort on WP2 and WP3, and Fraunhofer FOKUS participated in WP1 and WP2. The following figure illustrates the major involvement of the German partner in the ITEA context.
Figure: Relationship between German partners
Two case studies formed the core of the German project workplan, one focused on the application of the methodologies and tools to test automotive systems, the other on testing of mobile telecommunication systems. The toolset for the Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3) supplied by Testing Technologies was extended with test tools provided by the other partners and used in both industrial case studies.
As a research institute, Fraunhofer FOKUS was responsible for the development of test methods. It was involved in the definition of TTCN-3 test profiles for the industrial applications, the development of methods for test generation (with special consideration of the UML test profile) and regression tests and the definition of the test platform (based on TTCN-3 Control Interface (TCI) and Runtime Interface (TRI)). The realisation of the test platform and test frameworks for the industrial applications was the responsibility of Testing Technologies. DaimlerChrysler was responsible for the application of the technology for automotive systems, while Nokia took over this role for the mobile communication systems. These two industrial partners defined the details and requirements for the application examples and workd on the definition and realisation of both the specific TTCN-3 test profiles and the realization of the test frameworks. Testing Technologies leads the task on project result transfer while the project management for the German consortium was coordinated by Fraunhofer FOKUS.
