scope:

This part of ISO/IEC 9646 specifies requirements on both the test laboratory and the client, for the conduct of the conformance assessment process. The requirements are those necessary to achieve comparability of results of tests on similar implementations performed by different test laboratories. This part of ISO/IEC 9646 also provides some guidance on the conformance assessment process. The requirements include a) requirements for the testability of the implementation with respect to ATMs; b) general requirements on the test laboratory and the client applicable to any conformance testing proces; c) exchange of technical and administrative information, including a System Conformance Statement (SCS), a Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) for each relevant OSI protocol standard, and Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for testing (PIXIT) for each Abstract Test Suite (ATS) to be used for testing; d) cooperation between the test laboratory and the client to reach an agreement on the definition of the Implementation Under Test (IUT), on the ATMs and ATSs to be used and on the conditions under which testing will be performed; e) requirements for the structure and content of the conformance test reports that document the results of conformance assessment.