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Industry acceptance of the Service AvailabilityTM(SA) Forum interface specifications is apparent with the increasing number of commercial and open-source implementations based on the Hardware Platform Interface Specification and Application Interface Specification. To measure completeness and establish a standard, SA Forum is now preparing the process to certify implementations of the B.01.01 specifications and beyond. SAF Test is an open source project where the tests used for certification are created. This paper discusses the value of conformance testing and certification for service availability, especially with regard to the Service Availability Interfaces. It also describes the challenges faced in starting and maintaining an industry-wide conformance test project, and the value SAF Test brings to SA Forum implementations and customers.
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Tam, F., Ahvanainen, K.: First Experience of Conformance Testing an Application Interface Specification Implementation. In: Malek, M., Reitenspiess, M., Kaiser, J. (eds.) ISAS 2004. LNCS, vol. 3335, pp. 190–199. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
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Spencer, B. (2005). The Value of Conformance Testing and a Look at the SAF Test Project. In: Malek, M., Nett, E., Suri, N. (eds) Service Availability. ISAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11560333_2
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