AS/NZS 4103.

2:1993
ISO/IEC 9646-2:1991

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Conformance testing methodology
and framework

Part 2: Abstract test suite

specification
 AS/NZS 4103.2:1993

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical Committee
IT/1, Information Systems— Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of the Council of
Standards Australia on 12 November 1992 and on behalf of the Council of Standards
New Zealand on 22 September 1992. It was published on 15 March 1993.

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Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Confederation of Australian Industry
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Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Conformance testing methodology
and framework

Part 2: Abstract test suite

specification

First published as Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard

AS/NZS 4103.2:1993.

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PREFACE
This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee on Information
Systems — Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 9646-2:1991, Information
technology—Open SystemsInterconnection—Conformance testing methodology and framework— Part 2: Abstract
test suite specification.
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For the purpose of this Joint Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’, ‘New Zealand Standard’ or ‘Joint Australian/New Zealand
Standard’ should replace the words ‘International Standard’ wherever they appear.
(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to the following
Australian/New Zealand Standards:
Reference to International Australian/New Zealand Standard
Standard or other Publication
ISO
7498 Information processing systems— Open AS Information processing systems—
Systems Interconnection — Basic 2777 Open systems Interconnection— Basic
Reference Model reference model
8825 Information technology— Open Systems AS Information technology— Open
Interconnection— Specification of Basic 3626 Systems Interconnection — Specification
Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax of basic encoding rules for Abstract
Notation One (ASN.1) Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
ISO/IEC
9646 Information technology— Open Systems AS/NZS Information technology— Open
Interconnection— Conformance testing 4103 Systems Interconnection — Conformance
methodology and framework— testing methodology and framework
9646-1 Part 1: General concepts 4103.1 Part 1: General concepts

ISO/TR
8509 Information processing systems— Open AS Information processing systems—
Systems Interconnection — Service 3620 Open Systems Interconnection — Service
conventions conventions
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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5 Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6 Conformance requirements in OSI International Standards and CCITT
Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.2 General requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.3 Conformance clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7 Requirements on PICS proformas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8 Abstract Test Suite production process leading to conformance testing
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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9 Conformance requirements and PICS proforma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

10 Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.1 Basic requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.2 Specification of the test suite structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.3 Specification of the test purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.4 Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.5 TSS&TP compliance clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
11 Specification of generic test suites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
12 Abstract Test Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
12.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
12.2 General principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
12.2.1 Lower Testers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
12.2.2 Upper Testers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12.3 General specification of the ATMs for end-systems IUTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12.3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12.3.2 The Local test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12.3.3 The Distributed test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12.3.4 The Coordinated test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12.3.5 The Remote test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12.3.6 Single-layer and embedded variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12.4 Variants for single-protocol IUTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12.4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12.4.2 The LS test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12.4.3 The DS test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.4.4 The CS test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.4.5 The RS test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.5 Variants for multi-protocol IUTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.5.2 The LSE test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12.5.3 The DSE test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12.5.4 The CSE test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12.5.5 The RSE test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.6 ATMs for open relay-systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.6.2 The YL test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.6.3 The YT test method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.7 Choice of ATM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.7.2 Comprehensive testing service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12.7.3 IUT environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12.7.4 Applicability of the ATMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12.8 Test coordination procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

13 Specification of ATSs . . . . . . ...... .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 17

13.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 17
13.2 Test cases . . . . . . . . . . ...... .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18
13.3 ATS conformance clause .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 19
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13.4 Consistency with protocol .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . .. . . 19
14 Specification of a TMP . . . . . . .. ... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . .. . . 19
15 Use of an ATS specification . . .. ... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . .. . . 19
16 ATS maintenance . . . . . . . . . . .. ... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . .. . . 20
Annexes
A (normative) Requirements and guidance for a PICS proforma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
A.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
A.2 Relationship between PICS proformas and conformance
requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
A.3 General layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
A.4 Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
A.5 First section— Identification of the implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
A.6 Second section— Identification of the protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.7 Global statement of conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.8 Other sections— Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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A.8.2 Initiator/responder capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

A.8.3 Major capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.8.4 Timers and protocol parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.8.5 PDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.8.6 PDU parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.8.7 Negotiation capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
A.8.8 Protocol error handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
A.8.9 Multi-layer dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
A.8.10 Other conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
A.9 Formats of the tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
A.9.1 Structure of the tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
A.9.2 Symbols and conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
A.9.3 Instructions for completing a PICS proforma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
B (informative) Guidance for protocol specifiers to facilitate conformance
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
B.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
B.2 Guidance on scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
B.3 Guidance on normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
B.4 Guidance on requirements and options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
B.5 Guidance on PDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
B.6 Guidance on states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
B.7 Guidance on FDTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
B.8 Miscellaneous guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
C (informative) Incomplete static conformance requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
D (informative) Guidance on generic test cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
D.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
D.2 Description of generic test cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
D.3 Relation of generic to abstract test cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
D.4 Derivation of abstract test cases from generic test cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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