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- Submitted-by: glennh@sgihbtn.sierra.com (Glenn Hoogerwerf)
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- My company, Sierra Geophysics, is a member of the POSC
- (Petrochemical Open Software Corporation), which defines a system
- level standard that includes, among other standards, the POSIX.1
- interface. To that end, we are currently searching for a test suite
- that will allow us to judge the application compliance to the POSIX.1
- system interface. I am aware that X/Open is currently phasing out its
- application conformance program due to the lack of test technology to
- insure application conformance to the XPG standard, so this raises
- the question as to X/Open's future plans in the application branding
- arena. Are there any test suites in existence that test for POSIX.1
- conformance within an application? I am aware of several tools available
- from SunSoft, SPARC International, and AT&T, which test for appplication
- compliance to SVID3, but these would require a significant amount of
- database modification to allow for POSIX.1 conformance testing. POSC
- is in a similiar position to that of X/Open in that we do not wish to
- mark an application as POSC compliant if it has not passed a suffient
- test suite. I would greatly appeciate any information that you can
- share with me regarding tools that you have evaluated or developed,
- which might offer the functionality required for POSC to evaluate
- application compliance to the POSIX.1 standard.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Glenn Hoogerwerf (glennh@sierra.com)
- Sierra Geophysics
- 11255 Kirkland Way
- Kirkland, WA 98033
- (206) 822-5200 x526
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- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 58
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