D12.3 End-to-End System Testing Report

December 2009 version (v1.0) of deliverable D12.3 (End-to-End System Testing Report) is open to public comments, feedback and review !

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Executive Summary

This report describes the inter-partner system testing procedures and tools, intended to be deployed in the third and fourth years of the project. Care has been taken to acknowledge the research aspects of TAS3, so that changes in requirements, specifications, architecture, and design can still be accomodated in changing software.
During the project, the end-to-end testing is intended to reveal problems both in architecture and design, and in implementation, with the explicit goal to assure that the final architecture is correct, implementable, and usable in real applications. Future commercial implementations of TAS3 results, created during the exploitation phase, aim to be fully certified software. Prototyping this TAS3 certification process, including testing procedures, is part of the project.
At the project midpoint, WP12 is changing back to its originally foreseen task: to assure a coherent, end-to-end integration of security components with applications. For a while, it had been necessary to explicitly support mutual understanding and initial development efforts. With the integration technology demonstration well underway, we are back on course.
For this reason, the current December 2009 release of this report should be regarded as the starting point, describing how the Consortium intends to approach the integration and end-to-end testing in 2010 and 2011.