The Open Group is expanding its range of test suites with the introduction of a new “VSELX” line of modular test suites for embedded Linux systems, and early licensees are now being sought to participate in the test development group.

VSELX will include the capability to test functions from the Linux Standard Base (LSB) specification in an embedded Linux environment. The Open Group will be making two versions available, VSELX-Minimal and VSELX-Intermediate:

• VSELX-Minimal will test deeply embedded systems, and require only a single multi-threaded process, no file system, no interactive users support, and selected functions from the LSB.
• VSELX-Intermediate wil be a superset of the VSELX-Minimal test coverage, requiring support for multiple processes, file system, asynchronous I/O, and dynamic linking.

The VSELX test suites will derive from The Open Group's test suites used for LSB, POSIX, and UNIX certification. They will be adapted for embedded testing and include the TETware/RT and Embedded VSXgen test framework.

For more information on signing up to participate in the test development group, please contact Mike Hickey at The Open Group.

 
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