RE: [oic] Conformance Testing versus Interoperability Testing

["Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

Title: RE: [oic] Conformance Testing versus Interoperability Testing

Hi Rob,


thanks for pointing us out, they look like very good definitions to me.


Bart

(for those in search of a sloganesque relation between both
"conformance is a means to achieve the goal of interoperability")


-----Original Message-----
From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tue 1/13/2009 4:45 PM
To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [oic] Conformance Testing versus Interoperability Testing

This NIST page has a good set of definitions for these two concepts.  I
know that we've sometimes struggled to put into words exactly how these
differ.  Perhaps we can adopt these definitions:

"Conformance testing assesses whether tool characteristics' violate
normative statements of the specification."

"Interoperability testing assesses the ability of tools to share
information among each other, and thus the ability of parties possessing
differing tools to work jointly toward a goal."

http://syseng.nist.gov/se-interop/plugfest


-Rob

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