In the move towards globally networked enterprises, more and improved e-business testing capabilities are needed, particularly in situations where e-business standards are to support complex interactions among a larger number of organizations.
The Global e-Business Interoperability Test Bed project (GITB) focuses on methodologies and architectures that support e-business standards assessment and testing activities from early stages of eBusiness standards implementation, to proof-of-concept demonstrations, to conformance and interoperability testing. The main and long term objective of GITB is to develop, under EU support and guidance, a set up of a comprehensive and global eBusiness interoperability test bed system in a global collaboration of European, North American and Asian partners. GITB is a global initiative hosted by CEN and supported by ETSI, EIC, NIST, KorBIT and the industry associations AIAG and IAI.
The first phase of GITB (October 2008 -Dec 2009) delivered a baseline assessment of existing testing requirements and testing capabilities and a roadmap towards a global e-business interoperability testbed (CWA 16093:2010). The second phase (2011) aimed to define an architecture for interoperability testbeds for ebusiness standards at a global scale, the governance structure and develop selected use cases. Further information on the Global e-Business Interoperability Test Bed project website.
CEN Workshop Agreement
The CWA 16408:2012 contains key components of a global eBusiness interoperability test bed as well as the outilne of a testing methodology.
CEN Workshop status
The Workshop kick-off meeting took place in Brussels on 18 January 2011. The Workshop final meeting was held during the eChallenge Conference on 27 October 2011 in Florence. The Workshop is currently on hold: proposers are assessing if to go ahead with Phase 3.
CEN Workshop Chairperson
Dr. Nenad Ivezic
NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology)
100 Bureau Drive
Gaithersburg USA
Tel +1 301 9753536
CEN Workshop Secretary
Mr Jaap van der Marel
NEN
Vlinderweg 6
NL - 2623 AX Delft
Tel: + 31 15 2690 257
CEN-CENELEC Programme Manager
Mr Alain Dechamps
CEN-CENELEC
Avenue Marnix 17
B - 1000 Brussels
Tel: + 32 2 550 08 67