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Submitted-by: glennh@sgihbtn.sierra.com (Glenn Hoogerwerf)

    My company, Sierra Geophysics, is a member of the POSC
(Petrochemical Open Software Corporation), which defines a system
level standard that includes, among other standards, the POSIX.1
interface.  To that end, we are currently searching for a test suite
that will allow us to judge the application compliance to the POSIX.1
system interface.  I am aware that X/Open is currently phasing out its
application conformance program due to the lack of test technology to
insure application conformance to the XPG standard, so this raises
the question as to X/Open's future plans in the application branding
arena.  Are there any test suites in existence that test for POSIX.1
conformance within an application?  I am aware of several tools available
from SunSoft, SPARC International, and AT&T, which test for appplication
compliance to SVID3, but these would require a significant amount of 
database modification to allow for POSIX.1 conformance testing.  POSC 
is in a similiar position to that of X/Open in that we do not wish to
mark an application as POSC compliant if it has not passed a suffient 
test suite.  I would greatly appeciate any information that you can
share with me regarding tools that you have evaluated or developed,
which might offer the functionality required for POSC to evaluate
application compliance to the POSIX.1 standard.

Thanks,

Glenn Hoogerwerf (glennh@sierra.com)
Sierra Geophysics
11255 Kirkland Way
Kirkland, WA  98033
(206) 822-5200 x526 


Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 58