Abstract
A large amount of effort is being put into developing international standards for protocols and services in support of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). All this activity will, however, be in vain unless products are produced in conformance with these standards. In order to give users confidence in the products they buy, implementations need to be tested objectively using a standard suite of internationally agreed tests. In the absence of agreed objective tests, users can gain confidence from testing by a trusted independent assessment centre.
NPL is currently developing suitable techniques for objective or independent testing. The architectural basis which has been established for this work is presented, giving the context within which NPL’s current testing system can be discussed. A brief indication is given of the relationship between this and the work of our European collaborators, in France and Germany, and that of others in the USA and Canada.
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Rayner, D. (1985). Testing Protocol Implementations. In: Skwirzynski, J.K. (eds) The Impact of Processing Techniques on Communications. NATO ASI Series, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5113-6_29
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