PLANNING
Interoperability Demonstration and Testing
Architecture Development

Planning

In the first phase of the project, a joint planning session was conducted with software vendors and users to define a vision for the testbed. A concensus statement was reached to describe the testbed as a 'non-competitive, non-biased environment enabling resource sharing and coordination of interoperability demonstration and testing activities'. In addition, a vision for the testbed was defined as 'A distributed, living testbed allowing customer-driven A2A interoperability testing and demonstration of application-to-application interoperability over B2B infrastructures such as ebXML, RosettaNet, etc...'. The figure illustrates the vision.

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The planning of specific presentation and testing activities is driven by the identified needs of the stakeholders. The force that is driving these testbed activities is one of emerging B2B standards adoption by users and software vendors that, in turn, leads to a need for the standard and technology interoperability demonstration and, eventually, interoperability testing. The figure shows the outcome of the testbed planning activity motivated by such needs for interoperability demonstration and testing and leading to actual demonstration events.

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