General Conformance
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QA Framework:Specification
Guidelines
W3C Recommendation on writing better specifications. (This link
takes you off the NIST site) [Aug 2005].
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Principles for writing conformance requirements [pdf]
List of principles to help craft conformance requirements (aka test
assertions) [Rosenthal, Lyon; Feb 2005].
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Writing
Quality Specifications
Presentation on how to write a better specification. [Skall, July
2004].
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What
is this thing called conformance?
An overview of conformance including a discussion of terminology,
methodology, and benefits. Additionally, various test suites for XML
technologies are presented. [Rosenthal, Brady; NIST/ITL Bulletin,
January 2001].
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Presentation:
What is this thing called conformance? [ppt]
Presentation on conformance including what it is, how it works, and
what the benefits are. Additionally specific examples from available
conformance test suites (XML, DOM, XSLT) are presented. [Rosenthal,
Brady, XML 2000 Conference, December 2000].
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Conformance
[ppt]
Presentation given at the ebXML Tokyo meeting, November 2000. An overview
of conformance is given, including the topics and issues that need
to be addressed when including a conformance clause in a specification.
[Skall, Rosenthal, November 2000].
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Conformance
Testing
With any standard, eventually the discussion turns to “how will we
know if an implementation conforms to the standard?” This paper defines
conformance and conformance testing as well as describes the components
of a conformance testing program. [Gray, Goldfine, Rosenthal, Carnahan].
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Overview
of Conformance Testing
Discussion of conformance terms, assessment program, types of testing,
and factors for success. [Gray].
Validation and Certification
Many of the documents and presentations
in the General Conformance section include a discussion of validation
and certification programs
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Conformance
Testing and Certification Framework[pdf]
This paper presents general concepts, components, and issues related
to establishing and administering a conformance testing program.
Although it addresses testing for ebXML specifications, it can be
applied to testing any specifications. [Rosenthal, Skall, Carnahan,
White Paper for ebXML, April 2001].
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Test Methodologies
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DOM
Test Suite Methodology[pdf]
This paper provides a description of the Document Object Model (DOM)
test suite methodology for how conformance tests to the W3C DOM
specification was developed using automated test generation techniques.
[NIST GCR04-860, 2004].
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Interactive
Conformance Testing for VRML
Paper describing the test development strategy and design issues
in developing the NIST Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
conformance test suite. [Brady, Rosenthal].
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Formal
Specification Languages in Conformance Testing
Report assessing the potential the advantages of applying formal
specification languages rather than natural language, to the problems
of conformance testing.[Liburdy, Gray, Rosenthal, Software Quality
Week, 1998].
Test Suites
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XML - A Conformance Test Suite, jointly developed by
NIST and W3C for the W3C XML and Namespace Recommendations.
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DOM Conformance
Test Suites, developed by NIST and W3C, for DOM Level 1 and Level
2, CORE and HTML modules.
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A. XSL - Conformance
Test Suites, developed by NIST, for both Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
and XSL Transformations (XSLT/XPath).
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XML Schema
- Conformance Test Suites, developed by NIST, for XML Schema Part
2: Datatypes.
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XML Query
- Conformance Tests, developed by NIST, for Functions and Operators,
Working Draft.
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ebXML
- Test Framework and Conformance Tests for ebXML Messaging.
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