Compliance Tester aids SA Forum interfaces implementation.
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Providing users with clear indication of their conformance to specification, HPI B.01.01 Compliance Test Suite allows users to assess implementations of SA Forum hardware platform interface specification. It can also offer testing for Application Interface Specification (AIS). Software provides foundation to ensure that COTS software has correctly implemented SA Forum interfaces and is readily portable across COTS hardware platforms.
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SA Forum Introduces HPI B.01.01 Compliance Test Suite
Test Suite allows companies to assess implementations of SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface specification
BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 8 / -- The Service Availability Forum(TM) (SA Forum), the leader in developing open specifications for carrier-grade service availability, today announced the availability of the SA Forum HPI B.01.01 Compliance Test Suite -- the SA Forum's first compliance test suite. This test suite provides users a clear indication of their conformance to the specification. Anyone can execute this test suite in-house and provide the results to the SA Forum for audit. Products that pass the compliance test suite will be posted on the SA Forum Web site.
"By utilizing software that has successfully passed the compliance suite, IBM will significantly improve our time to market for new solutions while lowering our development expenses," said Bruce Anthony, Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM. "This new test suite provides a solid foundation to ensure that COTS software has correctly implemented the SA Forum interfaces and is readily portable across COTS hardware platforms, lowering the testing complexity."
"The HPI Compliance Test Suite was developed in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire Computer Science Department's Center for Software Systems, a research and development group," said Bryan Harold, SA Forum Compliance Governance Board Chair. "Scott Valcourt, Project Director, along with faculty and students at the university were key drivers in the development of the testing harness, test development, and code review process."
This is the SA Forum's first in a series of planned compliance test suites, which will include testing for its Application Interface Specification (AIS). The HPI test suite will be maintained by adding future tests, and will continue to be revised to match specification revisions.
To access the new HPI Compliance Suite, please visit http://saforum.org/compliance.
About the Service Availability Forum(TM)
The Service Availability Forum(TM) is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to foster an ecosystem that enables the use of commercial off-the-shelf building blocks in the creation of high availability network infrastructure products, systems and services. To achieve this goal, the Service Availability Forum develops and publishes high availability and management software interface specifications while promoting and facilitating their adoption by industry. Service Availability Forum membership offers the opportunity to help frame and implement the Service Availability solution. For more information about the Service Availability Forum, visit www.saforum.org/.
Source: Service Availability Forum
Web site: http://www.saforum.org/
