A new service description for communication services as basis for automated functional testing

The advances in the telecommunication domain to support complex communication services has resulted in a need for a new approach to automatically verify that the communication services meet the demands of the customers. This paper presents a concept for automated functional testing by means of a novel test framework. Within the framework, the tests are automatically derived from a proposed new sort of requirements specification for communication services, the Service Description, and afterwards generated by means of predefined test modules. Finally, the test cases are executed against the System under Test, the communication service.