Subject: Minutes from BOF Validation Meeting

From: "Tim Hefel (254-1881)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 14:55:54 EDT

APPN/APPC Platform Developers' Conference - June 22, 1983  Raleigh, NC.

APPN Validation : Birds of a Feather - Notes

There were about 20 to 30 people in attendance at this session
held from 12:00 to 1:30 on Tuesday, June 22. The following topics
of discussion were noted during that meeting, and presented at the BOF
review session June 23. Please send comments on corrections or additions
directly to me ([email-masked]). Technical discussion of these
topics should be conducted through the mail exploder.

6611 and the Interoperability tests

Other vendor boxes - have capability:
- unit test and scaffolding
- regression suite

Interoperability - at the GA level
- HPR interoperability
--- during Functional test
- statement of interoperability (matrix) V1 to V2
- when you don't interoperate - who changes (product vs. architecture)
- windows: allow fix time
- need an NN in a BOX in the LAB

Where are tests available?
- Architecture as Center Court
- former tests in IOTS (as an example)
- SELF-CERTIFICATION
--- one-liners to test case
--- stress tests
--- available in mid-July

BOF to SIG?
- distribution
- forums

System Level Tests
- minimum hardware
- small number of tests

TPNS: skills-intensive tool
- product skills
- resources
- scripts

Alternate platforms for tools

Test plan
- coverage (for NN)
- interoperate: what really got tested?

Dynamically start/stop a network - dynamically

Scope of "certificate of conformance" ?

Plan on Interoperability error cases ?

Tim Comstock