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- Date: Thu, 22 May 86 07:23:27 edt
- From: cincotta@ICST-SE (Cincotta)
- Message-Id: <8605221123.AA10809@ICST-SE.ARPA>
-
- Workshop
- on
- Testing Conformance to the Proposed IEEE P1003/FIPS Standard
- for
- Portable Operating System for Computer Environments
-
-
-
- The Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology (ICST) at the
- National Bureau of Standards (NBS) will hold a two-day workshop
- on Testing Conformance to Software Standards. Four major topic
- areas will be addressed: (1) graphics; (2) data management; (3)
- office systems/document interchange; and (4) UNIX-derived operat-
- ing system environments [UNIX is a trademark of AT&T].
-
- The workshop will be held June 9-10, 1986 at NBS, Gaithersburg,
- Maryland.
-
- NBS/ICST is considering adopting the full use version of the
- IEEE/P1003 Standard for Portable Operating System for Computer
- Environments as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
- The IEEE/P1003 standard is intended to provide a vendor indepen-
- dent specification for UNIX-derived operating systems. It was
- approved as a trial use standard by IEEE in March, 1986. It is
- currently being evaluated via the IEEE trial use procedures.
-
- In support of the planned Federal standard, ICST is exploring al-
- ternatives for conformance testing. This workshop is intended to
- solicit vendor input on issues relating to conformance testing
- for the proposed Federal standard.
-
- Issues to be addressed include:
-
- - test suite selection
-
- - test suite availability
-
- - test suite administration
- - who runs the tests
- - where the tests are run
- - when the tests are run
- - how results are certified
-
- - test suite maintenance
-
- For more information on the "UNIX" workshop, contact either Roger
- Martin or Tony Cincotta at (301) 921-3545.
-
- For general information and registration, contact Candy Leatherman
- at (301) 921-3553.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 6, Number 20
-
-