Data Sheet

Updated April 1998

The Open Group has introduced a new family of test suites in support of the Single UNIX® Specification, Version 2 and the UNIX 98 brand program. This is an opportunity for the Open Group and leading vendors to work together NOW to build on the momentum of UNIX 95. This reinforces the UNIX trade mark as the industry recognized mark for the leading-edge operating environment.

1. Introduction

Building on the success of the X/Open Verification Program, The Open Group is the premier open systems test supplier. Successful X/Open Branding programs include XPG4, CDE, Security and the Single UNIX Specification. The Open Group portfolio of open systems test suites includes tests for POSIX.1, POSIX.2, XPG4, UNIX, CDE, CORBA, XNFS, XTI, Sockets, X11 and Motif. Open Group test tools are essential for proper development and maintenance of standards-based products, ensuring conformance of products to industry-standard APIs, application portability and interoperability. In-depth testing identifies defects at the earliest possible point in the development cycle, saving costs in development and quality assurance. The real benefit of The Open group test tools to suppliers is accelerated time-to-market of branded product.

If your organization is developing an implementation for any of the new features in UNIX 98, then the Eastwood test suites offer significant value in terms of test coverage and cost reductions and are recommended for in-house quality-assurance as well as part of your brand registration campaign.

2. The Eastwood Specification

The update to the Single UNIX Specification is known as Eastwood and incorporates the following:

• IEEE POSIX 1003.1c-1995 Threads Extension
• IEEE POSIX 1003.1b-1993 Realtime Extension
• IEEE POSIX 1003.1I-1995 Realtime Extension Technical Corrigenda
• Aspen Threads Extensions
• ISO C Amendment 1
• Aspen Dynamic Linking
• Large File Summit Extensions
• n-bit Cleanup
• Year 2000 Alignment

3. Availability

The Single UNIX Specification Version 2 was published in February 1997, with the expectation that branded products will be made in the first quarter of 1998. The Open Group commenced development of updated and new test suites in November 1996 with completion in July 1997.

4. The Eastwood Test Suites

The Eastwood test suites are:

• VSTH - The industry standard Threads test suite : a standalone test suite fully covering POSIX 1003.1c and the additional X/Open threads (Aspen) requirements. The suite has a common operating and reporting interface consistent with VSX, and is capable of being merged with VSX. The consistency is achieved using the VSX generic harness, known as VSXgen.
• VSRT - The industry standard POSIX Realtime test suite: a standalone test suite fully covering POSIX 1003.1b and POSIX 1003.1i. The suite has a common operating and reporting interface consistent with VSX, and is capable of being merged with VSX (under VSXgen).
• VSX5 - a new test suite which runs under the VSXgen harness: includes tests for ISO C Amendment 1, Dynamic Linking and Large File Summit extensions. This suite is capable of being merged in with other test packages running under VSXgen.
• A major upgrade of VSC, the industry standard Commands & Utilities test suite: includes Large File Summit extensions, n bit clean, Aspen commands and year 2000 alignment.
• A major upgrade of VSU, the industry standard test suite for Sockets, Curses and other UNIX extensions: includes Large File Summit extensions and n bit cleanup for the traditional UNIX extensions; revised Sockets tests for XNS Issue 5; a major upgrade of the Xcurses tests which are revised for X/Open Curses Issue 4 Version 2.
• A maintenance update of VST, the industry standard XTI test suite: includes n bit cleanup.

5. Pricing

See here.

6. Information

• For additional information and the paperwork needed to acquire the Eastwood test suites, please contact our Sales Team.

• For more information on each test suite see the available datasheets at http://www.opengroup.org/testing/new/eastwood.html.

• For more information on new developments in Open Group testing , see http://www.opengroup.org/testing/new.

• More information on the Single UNIX Specification and the ongoing UNIX program can be found at the official UNIX system world wide web site at: http://www.opengroup.org/unix/

• More information on Version 2 can be found at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/version2/

• The Online Single UNIX Specification can be found at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html

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