DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERCONNECTABILITY TESTING SYSTEM

There is a wide perception of the need for conformance and interoperab ility testing to ensure the interoperability of open systems. In the c ircumstances, we have been making efforts to establish a system for in terconnectability testing, which is a type of the interoperability tes ting. In this paper, we discuss an interconnectability testing system, named AICTS (AIC's InterConnectability Testing System) that we have d esigned. We also discuss a conformance testing system, named ACTS (AIC Conformance Test System), which we developed as the first step toward building an interconnectability testing system. ACTS is capable of ex tensions for an interconnectability testing system.