As the deployment of open systems increases, conformance testing tools and methods become more prevalent. This underscores the need to bring together researchers from industrial laboratories, academia and PTTs to share with their colleagues their latest theories and findings. These findings contribute to the state-of-the-art in conformance testing and form the basis for a standardized framework for OSI conformance testing. The goal of this 3rd International Workshop was to provide such a forum for researchers and practitioners in the design, development and use of protocol test systems for OSI, ISDN, IBCN, and other environments. The present volume brings together twenty-six selected and three invited papers, as well as the input from more than 70 participants from industrial and scientific institutions in eleven countries.
Invited Papers: Keynote Presentation (J. Brown). Exploitation of the
Information Base Defined in the CPS Technical Framework Specification (V.
Gwillim, S.R. Dooley). ISO/IEC 9646 and Beyond (D. Rayner). Communications
Software Design and Testing: R. Koster, R. Dssouli, R. Fournier, R.L.
Probert, F. Guo, R. Ahooja. Test Suite Design and Implementation: M. Bekker
et al., T. Wakasugi, M. Phalippou, R. Groz, K. Naik, B. Sarikaya, E.M.
Dijkerman, R.J. Helwerda, J.C. Niestern, A.H. Wiles. Conformance Testing
Methodologies: E. Paolillo et al., S.R. Berkhout, M.F. Witteman, J. de Meer
et al., G. v. Bochmann et al. Test Sequence Generation: R.E. Miller, S. Paul,
R.E. Miller, G.M. Lundy, A. Chung, D. Sidhu. The Ferry Concept: H.X. Zeng et
al., S.T. Chanson, S.T. Vuong, H. Dany, Q. Li, H.X. Zeng. Conformance and
Interoperability: O. Rafiq, R. Castanet, D.J. Dwyer, S. Castro, G. Bonnes,
S.T. Chanson, J.K.H. Lo.
