CWA 16971:2015

Global eBusiness Interoperability Test Bed (GITB) Phase 3: Implementation Specifications and Proof-of-Concept CWA 16971:2015

Scope

The work on GITB is motivated by the increasing need to support testing of eBusiness scenarios as a means to foster standards adoption, achieve better compliance to standards and greater interoperability within and across the various industry, governmental and public sectors. Without testing, it is cumbersome to reach interoperability of eBusiness implementations and to achieve conformance with standards specifications. More advanced testing methodologies and practices are needed to cope with the relevant set of standards for realizing comprehensive eBusiness scenarios (i.e. business processes and choreography, business documents, transport and communication protocols), as well as Test Beds addressing the specific requirements of multi-partner interactions.
GITB intends to increase the coordination between the manifold industry consortia and standards development organizations with the goal to increase awareness of testing in eBusiness standardization and to reduce the risk of fragmentation, duplication and conflicting eBusiness testing efforts. It thereby supports the goals of the European ICT standardization policy to increase the quality, coherence and consistency of ICT standards and provide active support to the implementation of ICT standards.
The long-term objective is to establish a shared and Global eBusiness Interoperability Test Bed (GITB) infrastructure to support conformance and interoperability testing of eBusiness Specifications and their implementation by software vendors and end-users.
The GITB project aims at
• developing the required global Testing Framework, architecture and methodologies for state-of-the-art eBusiness Specifications and profiles covering all layers of the interoperability stack (business processes, business documents, transport and communication);
• supporting the realization of GITB as a network of multiple Test Beds, thereby leveraging existing and future testing capabilities from different stakeholders (for example standards development organizations and industry consortia, Test Bed Providers, and accreditation / certification authorities);
• establishing under EU support and guidance, a setup of a comprehensive and global eBusiness interoperability Test Bed infrastructure in a global collaboration of European, North American and Asian partners.
GITB focuses on the architecture, methodology and guidelines for assisting in the creation, use and coordination of Test Beds. It is not intended to become an accreditation/certification authority or to impose a particular Test Bed implementation.
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