AI-enabled test specification with TDL

Presented by: Martti Käärik, Elvior – Philip Makedonski, Göttingen University – Charalampos Tsotakis, ITI

Creating tests for standardised technologies is a demanding task. In addition to understanding the target technology, its domain, and related standards, knowledge in testing technologies, processes, and organisation-specific rules and conventions are also required. Reports from early attempts in AI-enabled test generation from standards directly suggested that intermediate representations are required.
ETSI’s Test Description Language (TDL) aims to provide a standardised notation for the entire test specification process, from test objectives, through test purposes and test descriptions, to executable tests, which often relies on disparate and incompatible notations. As such, it can serve as an intermediate notation at all stages in an AI-enabled test generation process, blending human and AI-generated input. We will explore how AI-enabled tools can assist in applying TDL, especially for users, as the language has become more sophisticated and keeps evolving.