NIST BOD Testing Facility Now Available

February 28, 2008

NIST is pleased to announce the release of a test suite for the Open Applications Group Inc.(OAGi)'s Naming and Design Rules (NDR) 9.0 specification onto NIST's Quality of Design (QOD) website. The test suite tests XML schemas for alignment with the OAGi NDR specification.

The tests are divided into three separate parts, called test profiles, as follows:

• OAGI 9.0 General Profile -- This profile contains all the rules that can be applied on any OAGi or OAGi Overlay schema.
• OAGI 9.0 BOD Profile -- This profile contains all the rules specifics to the Business Object Document BOD. The tests apply to all BOD schemas.
• OAGI 9.0 ABIE Profile -- These tests are specific for Abstract Business Information Entities. These tests apply to both BOD and Nouns schemas.

The tests are available from NIST's QOD website at http://nist.gov/qod. From this site go to "Test as Guest" and select the profile that you
interested in. See the OAGi website for more information on the NDR itself.

BOD and Overlay concepts are explained in the OAGi documentation which can be downloaded here: http://www.openapplications.org/downloads/oagis/loadfrmd.htm.

ABIE is defined in the UN/CEFACT CCTS specification. Click here for details..

These sets of tests can be used as is without an account as described.

Users may request an account if they are interested in picking particular rules to make a custom test profile. For example, with the OAGi schemas there is no way to recognize a BIE schema (ABIE, ASBIE , BBIE ...) hence we made the assumption that only BODs and Nouns Schema are considered as ABIE.

With an account a user may choose to make different assumptions and modify the tests to suite those.

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Date Create: August 6, 2008
Last Modified: August 6, 2008