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Notes to
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Hardware
Workmanship Test Suite for the VVSG-NI, Version 1.0
April 1, 2009
The
document available from this page represents a test suite for
the hardware workmanship requirements (sometimes referred to as
the environmental requirements and the corresponding testing materials
as the shake and bake tests) of the next iteration of the Voluntary
Voting System Guidelines (VVSG-NI). When the VVSG-NI is approved
by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the test suites will
be available for use by voting system testing laboratories as
a common basis for testing voting systems to determine conformance
to the VVSG-NI.
Test suite reviewers are advised to first read and understand
the VVSG-NI, especially the sections relevant to the test suites
under review, before reviewing the test suites. The hardware workmanship
requirements are found in the following sections:
- Part
1 Section 6.4.3, General Build Quality
- Part
1 Section 6.4.4, Durability
- Part
1 Section 6.4.5, Maintainability
- Part
1 Section 6.4.6, Temperature and Humidity
- Part
1 Section 6.4.7, Equipment Transportation and Storage
These
sections can be found at: http://www.eac.gov/vvsg/part1/chapter06.php/.
A complete version of the VVSG-NI in HTML, MS-Word, or PDF formats
can be found at http://www.eac.gov/vvsg.
Commenting:
Please
send comments on the test suites, by July 1, 2009, to: crt-hardware-test@nist.gov.
You
may provide comments directly in your email and/or send attachments
in MS-Word or PDF. If you wish, you may embed your comments within
the PDF documentation using the instructions provided here.
In general, please tell us the features you like and provide us
with comments, corrections, and suggestions on how to improve
the test suites. Please provide the following items:
- Test
suite version number (found in the test suite documentation,
currently Version 1.0)
- Your
name and affiliation (include contact information if desired)
- Identification
of the particular tests and requirements in the VVSG-NI for
which your comment applies
- If
including suggestions for changes to the tests, a description
of the suggested change including an adequate justification
for the change, or a draft replacement for the test including
the justification and any other necessary documentation or commentary
All
comments will be considered. After all comments have been received
and incorporated into the test suites, a new version of the test
suites will be posted on the NIST web site.
The
hardware
workmanship test suite is available here in PDF.
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