SSAP - compliance assurance?

From: Ulrike Stampa <stampa-at-ari.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:57:31 +0200


Hi all,

after having followed some of the ongoing discussions about required and supported parameters in the ssap I wondered if there is a way to guarantee that registered SSA services are actually compliant to the standard. Does anything like test cases (e.g. a collection of HTTP-queries together with their expected results) for the newest version exist already? Is there some authority to check the compliance of newly-registered services or is it completely up to the developper's responsibility? Of course these test cases would only cover "formal compliance" of the interface (like checking of input parameters, acceptance of mandatory parameters, returning error messages etc.) not the correct behaviour of the service itself! As I am presently trying to test my newly written SSAP service, it would help me a lot to make sure that my service is really compliant.

If this topic is covered in some other document already I would be grateful for the hint.

Thanks
Ulrike Stampa Received on 2007-07-03Z10:47:21