Global eBusiness Interoperability Test Beds (GITB) Facilitating Large Scale Projects in Europe
Oriol Bausà, Christine Legner · 2012
This chapter motivates testing as a way to facilitate the deployment of Large Scale Projects (LSP) which has been launched to deliver online public services throughout Europe. Since these projects target heterogeneous communities in a cross-border context, their implementation effort is spread among different actors with diverse interests and capabilities. Test beds are required to ensure conformance to the common specification and interoperability between the implementations. The chapter demonstrates how the Global eBusiness Interoperability Test Bed (GITB) initiative addresses the requirements of these Large Scale Projects. The GITB Testing Framework specifies test artefacts, test components and test services to support the creation, use and operation of test beds while enabling reuse of testing resources among different test beds and regional communities. Controlled Vocabulary Terms interoperability; test equipment