NIST Organizational Chart

• NIST



• 8 Measurement Laboratories
   

  Building and Fire Research, Chemical Science and Technology, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Building and Fire Research, Physics



• Information Technology Laboratory
   

  8 Divisions: Mathematics and Computational Science, Advanced Network Technology, Security, SOFTWARE DIAGNOSTIC AND CONFORMANCE TESTING, Convergent Technologies, Information Access, Statistical Engineering, Distributed Computing

Mission of Software Testing Division

• Develops software testing tools and methods that improve:
  • quality
  • conformance to standards
  • correctness
• Participates with industry in the development of forward-looking standards
• Leads efforts for conformance testing, even at the early development stage of standards

SDCT Goal

• To improve quality of software in industry through the development of:
  • Technology
  • Measurements
  • Standards
• Philosophy:
  • Concentrate on key areas at forefront of technology
  • Get involved early and partner with industry
  • Fill industry void
  • Transfer technology and move on
• Specific Strategy:
  • Conformance Tests
  • Standards developed jointly with industry
  • Diagnostic Tests
  • Research to reduce costs of testing
  • Reference Data

Our Experience

• Formal standards organizations and Consortia
    ISO, ANSI, IEEE, ATSC, SMPTE, Web3D, OASIS, W3C
• Developing conformance test suites, tools, reference implementations
    Fortran, Cobol, SQL, Graphics (CGM, PHIGS, VRML, X3D), POSIX
• Developing validation and certification testing programs
    ATA (CGM), IEEE (POSIX)

Web Technologies Projects

• XML
  • NIST, OASIS, W3C members, Sun, IBM...
  • Technical leadership and test development
  • Test Suite, rel 2 -- 2000+ tests
• DOM
  • NIST, W3C
  • Test development - DOM Level 1, Level 2
  • Namespace Support, Automated test generation
• XSL FO
  • W3C XSL chair asked NIST for assistance
  • Verify CR
  • Provides head-start to conformance test development
• XSLT
  • OASIS, NIST, Lotus, ...
  • NIST developing tests and test harness
• Schema
  • NIST, W3C, OASIS
  • Automated testing approach
  • Datatypes expected April 2001
• WebCGM
  • NIST, CGM Open
  • Test development
• OASIS TCs
  • Chair: Interoperability and Conformance
  • Chair: XML
  • Participate on XSLT/XPath
  • Chair: Registry/Repository