Conformance Testing Services

Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media European Commission

Description

Industrial research and development

Sujets

• Information technology
• Programming language
• Computer software
• Standardization
• Data transmission
• Telecommunication
• Electric power transmission

Informations

• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA-EUROPEAN-COMMISSION
• Nombre de lectures: 39
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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Telecommunications,
Information Industries
and Innovation WHAT IS THE CTS PROGRAMME? FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: CTS
Conformance Testing Services
The CTS Programme fosters the develop­ Commission of the European Communities
ment and provision of harmonized testing
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services throughout Europe by drawing on
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The CTS Programme provides for: CTS Programme: [phone]
Ώ independent conformance testing to
international (ISO, I EC, CCITT) and
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standards and functional profiles;
D testing all the layers of ISO/OSI in WHO'S WHO IN CTS
the private and public domain as well as
language compilers, operating systems,
data buses, graphics, software quality
assurance, etc.
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methodology (ISO 9646);
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and international standardization;
D ensure mutual recognition of test reports
by participating in European Systems for
IT& Τ Certification.
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an objective assessment which will ensure that the
Background products meet the adequate requirements for guar­
anteeing the interchange of data and information. Information technology and telecommunications
Consequently, in 1985, the Commission of the Euro­(IT & T) are playing an increasingly essential role in
pean Communities launched the Conformance answering the need for open exchange of data and
Testing Services Programme (CTS) to provide tools information. Furthermore, the achievement of a Euro­
and facilities to meet the growing market requirement pean single market will rely on a transborder flow of
for testing services as a means of paving the way to information and removal of technical barriers to trade.
an open market for truly interoperable IT & Τ systems.
At the time, there was only limited activity in this area. Increasingly, during the past years, efforts have been
A few testing services did exist, or were in the pro­devoted by the European Community to develop the
cess of being established. While individually they key ingredients required to promote the objectives of
were valuable, their collective impact fell far short of economic integration in this field.
fulfilling Community policy on testing and certification
and they were isolated initiatives. Testing and certification represent the key compo­
nent, essential to the achievement of Community
The timing was obviously right for a combined effort. standardization policy. It will reinforce the policy by
The need was clear, whilst enough had already been lending credibility and confidence to products that
learned to enable sound decision­making. Investment conform to standards. In fact, in the IT & Τ field, the
had not yet reached the levels where change for the complexity of standards is magnified to a degree
sake of harmonization would be difficult or impos­where it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to imple­
sible, while it was apparent that the task was so large ment the standards without creating technical diver­
that the mobilization of centres of excellence gences which will ultimately result in a lack of inter­
throughout Europe was essential. operability. Therefore, the need for an adequate
guarantee that products conform to standards
emerges as a decisive condition for building up con­ The programme has been phased in four overlap­
fidence in standard product interoperability. ping stages, known as CTS­1, CTS­2, CTS­2bis and
CTS­3, each launched through a 'call for proposals'
Customers, users, producers of IT & Τ goods and within two­year intervals. Community funding is provi­
services will all benefit from conformance testing, i.e. ded for approximately 50% of the costs. Following WS Centres where contracts are under negotiation are not included.
CTS TEST CENTRES
the launch of the programme, the intention is that the D Test centres should have sufficient independence
established testing services should be progressively to function as third-party test laboratories.
self-financed from testing fees.
Considerable progress has been made towards the
The third phase (CTS-3) has just been launched and
realization of the CTS Programme, with no sacrifice of
the corresponding call for proposals is still open. This
any of its principles. It is a matter for real satisfaction
covers principally telecommunications standards that in IT it has been possible to do what has rarely
which have most recently come to maturity. been achieved in other sectors: to ensure from the
outset that widespread conformance testing is
Parallel to the CTS Programme, a complementary performed on a genuine European basis.
plan for IT testing and certification in Europe is under
development by CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. This has
produced, as a first step, the setting up of the ECITC, The results
which is the European Committee for IT Certification,
The CTS Programme started in 1985. The first phase whose members, each representing a certification
(CTS-1) was completed in March 1989 and the corre­coordinating authority within each of the member
sponding services are in place: