Summary

This Recommendation specifies the control interfaces for TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation 3) test system implementations. The TTCN-3 Control Interface provides the recommended adaptation for management, test component handling and encoding/decoding of a test system to a particular test platform. This Recommendation defines the interfaces as a set of operations independent of a target language.

The interfaces are defined to be compatible with ITU‑T Rec. Z.140. The interface definition in this Recommendation uses the CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) to specify the TCI completely. Clauses 8 and 9 specify language mappings of the abstract specification to the target languages Java and ANSI‑C. A summary of the IDL-based interface specification is provided in Annex A.