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Subject: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods
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An Update on UNIX*-Related Standards Activities
June, 1990
USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
Jeffrey S. Haemer, Report Editor
IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods
Doris Lebovits <lebovits@attunix.att.com> reports on the April 23-27
meeting in Salt Lake City, UT:
Dot three's job is to do test methods for all of the other 1003
standards. The group's work, whose first parts are now in ballot,
specifies the requirements for OS conformance testing for our industry
and for NIST. This makes what the balloting group and technical
reviewers are doing, and their schedules, worth watching. Pay
attention, also, to what comes out of the Steering Committee on
Conformance Testing (SCCT). Their projects and decisions will be
interesting and important.
This was the working group's sixteenth meeting. As usual, we reviewed
the ballot status of P1003.1 test methods, worked on P1003.2 test
methods, and reviewed steering committee activities. As before, each
morning we did technical reviews of parts I and II; afternoons were
spent writing assertions for part III. Participants from the usual
companies attended. (AT&T, NIST, OSF, Mindcraft, IBM, DEC, HP, Data
General, Cray Research, Unisys, Perennial, and Unisoft Ltd.)
Document structure and some new PARs
Currently, our evolving document has two parts: Part I is generic test
methods; Part II is test methods for measuring P1003.1 conformance,
including test assertions; and Part III contains test methods and
assertions for measuring P1003.2 conformance. (As other P1003
standards evolve, they will become separate activities in the working
group's schedule.)
After the ballot, each part will become a separate standard. Part I
will be published as IEEE P1003.3; Part II as IEEE P1003.3.1; and Part
III as IEEE P1003.3.2. To this end, we developed and submitted three
new PARs to the Standards Executive Committee (SEC). The PAR for
P1003.3 lets Part I apply to all TCOS standards (i.e., POSIX). The
PAR for P1003.3.1 lets Part II include test methods for P1003.1 and
P1003.1a. The PAR for P1003.3.2 lets Part III include test methods
for P1003.2.
__________
* UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and other
countries.
June, 1990 Standards Update IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods
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Ballot status
Draft 11 of the current ballot, which was re-circulated to the
(approximately) ninety-member balloting group late in February, closed
balloting March 23. Of the 65 respondents, 29 approved, 17
disapproved, and 19 abstained. This meets the two-thirds response
requirement, but falls short of the needed two-thirds approval.
Another re-circulation will probably take place in Fall, 1990.
P1003.2 verification
This was our fourth meeting working on a verification standard for the
P1003.2 standard. The assertion writing and review were done in small
groups. Some of the assertions were based upon P1003.2 Draft 9. This
group needs help from the P1003.2 working group in writing test
assertions, but no formal arrangement is in place yet to provide it.
Officers for the P1003.2 Test Methods activities are: Ray Wilkes
(Unisys), Chair; Lowell Johnson (Unisys) Secretary; and Andrew Twigger
(Unisoft Ltd), Technical Editor.
Steering Committee on Conformance Testing (SCCT)
The test-methods steering committee is supposed to alleviate the
increasing dot-three work load all the other, proliferating groups are
creating. Their job is coordinating the activities of all test-
methods groups, monitoring their conformance to test methods, and
writing Project Authorization Requests (PARs). Currently, its members
are Roger Martin (NIST, Steering Committee Chair), Anita Mundkur (HP),
Andrew Twigger (Unisoft Ltd), Bruce Weiner (Mindcraft), and Lowell
Johnson (Unisys), but membership will be dynamic, Right now, this
committee is documenting procedures. Roger Martin is also clarifying
which standards the working group will address. The Technical
Reviewers will review this work sometime before the next meeting.
June, 1990 Standards Update IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods
Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 34