Interoperability Testing
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Topic: Interoperability Testing
Posted By: varsha
Subject: Interoperability Testing
Date Posted: 02Apr2007 at 11:59pm
What is Interoperability Testing?
Interoperability testing is the activity of proving that end-to-end
functionality between (at least) two systems
(application/communicating) is as required by those base systems'
standards.
The important factors characterizing interoperability testing are:
●The Equipment Under Test (EUT) and the Qualified Equipment (QE) together define the boundaries for testing;
●The EUT and QE come from different suppliers (or, at least, different product lines);
●interoperability tests are performed at interfaces that offer only normal user control and observation;
●Interoperability tests are based on functionality as experienced
by a user (i.e., they are not specified at the protocol level). In this
context a user may be human or a software application;
●The tests are performed and observed at functional interfaces
such as Man-Machine Interfaces (MMIs), protocol service interfaces and
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
The fact that interoperability tests are performed at the end points
and at functional interfaces means that interoperability test cases can
only specify functional behaviour. They cannot explicitly cause or test
protocol error behaviour. Protocol errors should be caught at protocol Testing. http://www.homeoftester.com/viewtopic.php?t=214 -
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