Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: ahby@bungia.bungia.mn.org (Shane P. McCarron) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Standards Update, Part 9: IEEE 1003.3 (POSIX Guide) Message-ID: <277@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 12 Dec 88 08:04:38 GMT Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: Shane P. McCarron Lines: 107 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) [ These Standards Updates are published after each IEEE 1003 meeting, and are commissioned by the USENIX Association. See Part 1 for contact information. -mod ] An update on UNIX|= Standards Activities - Part 9 POSIX 1003.3 Update November 18, 1988 Shane P. McCarron, NAPS International 1003.3 - Testing and Verification This POSIX working group met along with the others in Honolulu in October. The agenda included a status report on NIST activities, review of previously assigned action items, developing a strategy for future work with other P1003 (POSIX) working groups, revision of Draft 7.1 document, and assigning new action items. Roger Martin (NIST* & P1003.3 Chair) gave a status report on the current NIST FIPS** and their Conformance Testing Policies for the POSIX FIPS. He stated that this "Initial" POSIX FIPS has been approved and they intend to revise the FIPS now that the P1003.1 Standard is finalized. The NIST Test Suite, PCTS, has been provided to NTIS (National Technical Information Service) for public distribution at a price of $2500 and is being distributed since September 5, 1988. Its distribution was awaiting FIPS approval. Roger Martin also presented a proposed schedule for a series of Application Portability Workshops sponsored by NIST. He described a workshop that had taken place in September 1988 covering Shell & Tools, System Administration and X Windows. One of the areas to be covered in a future Application Portability Profile FIPS and workshop include the Terminal Interface Extension. The workshops are intended for implementors and users. The remainder of the meeting concentrated on rewriting and restructuring the Draft 7.1 document, including test assertions. __________ |= UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and other countries. * NIST was formerly the National Bureau of Standards, NBS ** FIPS is Federal Information Processing Standard developed by NIST - 2 - During the week of meetings one small group of Test Assertion Reviewers continued to update the 1003.3 Draft 7.1 assertions. Two other small groups concentrated on rewriting and restructuring 1003.3 Draft 7.1 document. One group's emphasis was the development of a 1003.3 Generic Test Method chapters (i.e. terminology, testing levels, generic PCTS output). The second group's emphasis was in developing 1003.1 specific Test Method sections. The P1003.3 group is gearing up for balloting this standard in early 1989. Each P1003.3 member is part of the "mock" ballot group, identifying and formulating any possible objections. The group defined the following ballot schedule: 11/18/88 1003.3 Draft 8.0 "MOCK" BALLOT 12/31/88 "MOCK" BALLOT CLOSED 1/9-13/89 REVIEW "MOCK" BALLOT RESULTS AT NEXT MEETING 2/15/89 1003.3 Draft 9.0 IEEE BALLOT 4/3/89 1003.3 BALLOT CLOSED Future work of the P1003.3 committee was also addressed. The P1003.3 Working Group wants to influence the other P1003 Working Groups into writing testable standards. To achieve this, a liaison program will be implemented to have members from P1003.3 working in a liaison fashion in each of the other working groups. The P1003.3 working group Project Authorization (PAR) will need to be revised in order for the group to develop an overall Test Method standard and the development of specific standards for each appropriate 1003 activity. The Watchdog committee contact for 1003.3 is Doris Lebovits. She can be reached at: Doris Lebovits AT&T Rm 5-211 190 River Rd, Summit, NJ 07901 lebovits@attunix.att.com attunix!lebovits +1 (201) 522-6586 Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 45