The eDelivery Conformance Testing service is being upgraded
The eDelivery team is busy preparing the next generation of its Conformance Testing service, based on the Interoperability Test Bed – a solution from the European Commission's Interoperable Europe portfolio to facilitate the conformance testing of IT systems.
The goal of the eDelivery Conformance Testing service is to verify that a software product or service implementing the eDelivery specifications, either commercial or open source, does so in a conformant manner. The service allows testing both the eDelivery AS4 specifications and eDelivery SMP specifications. To test conformance, users need to test their product (System under Test) against a series of predefined test cases. Throughout this process continuous support will be provided by the eDelivery support team.
The new generation of the eDelivery Conformance Testing service is being developed in a joint effort by the eDelivery and the Interoperable Europe teams. The new service will facilitate a faster turnaround and feedback loop when running the conformance tests. It will allow users to carry out the tests much more independently, requiring less additional support from the eDelivery team than with the current generation of the service. The new service will offer a modern, more user-friendly user interface, which will provide more insight into the test configuration and test steps being executed.
The new platform should be available to users in the first months of 2023.
You can find more information about the eDelivery Conformance Testing service on this page.
For more information, please contact us via our portal or by e-mail: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.
eDelivery is a building block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange.
The eDelivery Conformance Testing service allows testing software products and services against the eDelivery specifications. The technical specifications are translated into test assertions, which are the main unit for testing and reporting the conformance of an implementation. Based on the test assertions, test cases are derived and implemented on the test platform in the form of executable test scripts. An implementation can only pass the conformance testing process in case all mandatory test assertions have been successfully completed. The outcome of the test execution is documented in a test report which is published alongside the name of the product in the pages displaying the eDelivery conformant solutions (AS4, SMP).
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