scope:

The present document defines the set of checks to be performed for testing conformance of PAdES signatures against PAdES baseline signatures as specified in ETSI EN 319 142-1 [1].

The present document does not specify checks leading to conclude whether a signature is technically valid or not (for instance, it does not specify checks for determining whether the cryptographic material present in the signature may be considered valid or not). In consequence, no conclusion may be inferred regarding the technical validity of a signature that has been successfully tested by any tool conformant to the present document.

Checks specified by the present document are exclusively constrained to elements specified by PAdES [1].

Regarding PAdES attributes, the present document explicitly differentiates between structural requirements that are defined on building blocks, and the requirements specified for PAdES baseline signatures conformance

The present document is intentionally not linked to any software development technology and is also intentionally agnostic on implementation strategies. This is one of the reasons why the test assertions set specified in the present document includes tests on the correctness of the structure of all the elements specified by PAdES [1].