[ebxml-iic] Interop effort and Tests

Title: Call this Monday and some news

Jacques,

 

Attached is our first cut at putting the interop effort together for 
ebXML IIC. I have included most of the information from our past con-calls and 
F2F. The DGI tests fit in very nicely with the interop effort and we will gain a 
lot from their experience. More in the con-call on DGI tests 
today.

 

Regards,

Prakash

 

 

  
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques Durand 
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Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:59 
  PM
To: ''
Cc: Jacques 
  Durand
Subject: [ebxml-iic] Call this Monday and some 
  news

  
All: 

  
Two topics in this email: 

  
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1. Reminder for the call this Monday (note that it 
  takes place at 10am, not 9am anymore) 
Host: XMLGlobal 
Date: Monday 
  May 6, 2002
Time: 10:00AM PDT, 1:00PM EDT
Number: 
  1-888-809-4060, intl. 1-416-640-4861
Meeting #: 
  835639 
On the agenda:

1 - Conformance test suite for MS. (Matt, 
  Mike)
 (Overall structure of Test Cases, test validation, XML tools 
  involved).
2 - Interoperability test suite: review (Prakash, 
  Steve)
3 - Drummond Group donation of its Interoperability Test Suite. IPR 
  aspects. Press release.
4 - Implementation guidelines
5 - 
  Barcelona meetings (Jeff)
6 - Coordination with other Test areas 
  (RegRep...) 
------------------------------------- 
2. Drummond 
  Group (DGI) contacted us as well as OASIS (Karl & Patrick) with a 
  proposal: 

  
>"Drummond Group Inc. has decided to 
  donate the test suites,i.e. the individual 
>test suites outlined in this document, 
>from our last round of ebXML messaging vs 2.0 
  Interoperability 
>Testing to the 
  ebXML IIC to assist Interoperability efforts worldwide. 

  
>We are contributing this information 
  with free use. 
>We ask that 
  Drummond Group Inc. be given credit in the IIC document 
>produced from this information. We are not 
  claiming IP on this information. 

  
>We, however, do consider the DGI 
  Interoperability Processes (tm) proprietary. 
>And, to that end, we do not want to see future 
  statements on use by companies 
>stating that they self-tested using the "Drummond Group Inc. test 
  suites."  
>We do not want 
  our name mentioned by companies without participating in our programs. 
  

  
>Given this, we have attached a release 
  we would like to 
>release 
  Tuesday May 7, 2002 stating our alignment with the IIC. 
>We look forward to your comments..." 

  
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Given the full release of IP rights on this 
  material (detail of interop test cases data) 
from DGI, I will pass it right away to our Interop 
  team (MS ITTF). 
ITTF (and IIC) 
  still needs of course to decide how - and how much - we can 
reuse from this material in our final Interop test 
  Suite for MS, given 
the particular 
  test process we envision (emphasizing automation). 
This is something I mentioned to Rick Drummond, who 
  understands this quite well. 

  
I personally think this is quite a positive 
  move from DGI, and I welcome it: 
This is a step forward in establishing a common, "open" interop test 
  suite used 
by all parties, and 
  implemented/facilitated in diverse ways, that would benefit 
everyone. 
Designing the "right" test suite for MS Interoperability 
  certainly 
requires a good 
  understanding of user requirements and of their usage profiles 
  
(unlike a COnformance test suite, for 
  which the standard itself is the main 
guideline and reference), and DGI has the right experience for 
  this. 
Among a few related aspects 
  to address this Monday: 
- the 
  notion of "test process" (vs. test data). 
- the nature of IIC output: Test Cases (data), and an (original) 
  process to run these. 
- press 
  release DGI is planning for this Tuesday (see some quote below) 

  
Regards, 

  
jacques Durand 

  
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"... DGI... announces that the next round of 
  ebXML Messaging v2.0 Interoperability testing under the 
Uniform Code Council's (UCC) Global Solution 
  Interoperability Testing Program is targeted to begin June 2002.  
Facilitated by Drummond Group Inc., the program will 
  test product interoperability issues around the 
ebXML Messaging Specification V2.0 in coordination with 
  the supporting technical committees within OASIS.   
For more information on the UCC program, please 
  review: <http://www.uc-council.org/news/ne_interoperability.html> 
  
  
Test scenarios will align with the OASIS Interoperability and 
  Conformance Committee's conformance guidelines 
as they are become available. 
  Given the recent IBM announcement claiming patent 
  rights for CPP and CPA concepts, 
 each vendor can decide independently without 
  impact to other participants whether to include these components.  
  
Additional future tests are planned 
  for other specifications within the ebXML suite. 

  
Drummond Group Inc. facilitated a similar 
  interoperability test for ebXML messaging v2.0 
earlier this year with four vendors participating: 
  bTrade inc., Cyclone Commerce, Sterling Commerce and Sybase.  
  
These vendors will be asked to 
  participate with the new test group to ensure alignment of interoperability 
  across all vendors.  ..."

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