| |
TELCERT’s goal is to make technology breakthroughs in the tools and test
systems than underpin conformance and certification programs for standards and
specifications. These promote interoperability and provide confidence that the
elements of a learning or learning management system will work together by design.
The end result: a reduced need for expensive and time consuming adaptation and
re-engineering.
|
The project has two stages:
- Stage 1: proof of concept
of profiling, tools and test system in the XML environment
- Stage 2: leading edge
research and development in the web services environment,
to generate tests directly from UML representations.
Stage 1, completed in January 2005, also produced a through
review of the current state of the art in interoperability
testing technology, providing a foundation for design and
development.
Stage 2 addresses fundamental challenges in the UML,
dynamic testing environment. In parallel the project team
are developing business models for conformance programmes
to assist communities with adoption. Satge 2 ends in June
2006 with the project completion.
 go
here for a summary of the
technology issues, thinking and objectives that defined
the TELCERT project.
| Why Conformance & Testing? |
 |
Breaking Down Barriers |
- Interoperability
is the key to reusing learning system elements
in different ways to meet diverse learning needs.
And this is the key to realising economic benefits
from better and more widely available education
in developed and developing nations
- E-Learning communities
are well served by specifications but lack test
backed conformance programmes to underpin interoperability
and assure confidence
- The time and cost
of integration of content tools and services with
differing adaptations of specifications and standards
is limiting eLearning growth and opportunities.
Buyers want change!
- Suppliers too recognise
that more easily interoperable products and services
will widen their market opportunities.
| Learning Technology
and TELCERT |
|
|
The adoption of conformance and
certification programs has been held back by two major
technology barriers:
- Conventionally,
test systems have been custom designed and expensive
to develop and unable to accommodate the variety
of learning specifications and the differing needs
of communities
- Communities define
their requirements and variations from specifications
in different ways. It has been impossible to design
common testing tools without a consistent way to
describe and accommodate these variations
| Knowledge, Technology
and Tools |
TELCERT aims to
break down these barriers with breakthroughs in
technology and know-how, with information, prototypes
and demonstrators.
- State of the art
reports, guides and tutorials to help understand
the issues involved –the
technology involved in the XML and UML environment,
adopting standards and specifications, developing
application profiles, testing content and services
and developing conformance and certification programs
providing assurance to buyers
- Tools that enable
communities to define specific needs and adapt
specifications and products consistently through
application profiles. Profiles help suppliers engineer
content, tools and services to conform to specifications
and standards from the start.
- New test system
technology and design with a common, core testing
engine that can be reconfigured automatically at
low cost from application profile information about
what is being tested.
more
|
|
|
|
