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Votetest
Test Suite for the VVSG-NI, Version 1.0
April 1, 2009
The
documents available from this page represent a test suite for
certain requirements in Part 1 Section 7, Requirements by Voting
Activity, 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. Part 1 Section 7 can be found
at: http://www.eac.gov/vvsg/part1/chapter07.php/.
A complete version of the VVSG-NI in HTML, MS-Word, or PDF formats
can be found at http://www.eac.gov/vvsg.
Votetest
consists of its documentation and a set of data files that are
bundled with it. This package is distributed as an archive file
in either zip or compressed tar format. A high-level description
of the contents of the Votetest distribution is given in Section
1.1 of the documentation; a more detailed description that identifies
the various data files is given in Section 3.1 and Section 3.2.
Sections 3.8 and 3.9 detail which requirements in Part 1 Section
7 are addressed by Votetest.
Commenting:
Please
send comments on the test suites, by July 1, 2009, to: crt-software-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 Votetest 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
Votetest
documentation is available here in PDF or HTML.
The
Votetest package, including documentation, is available here in
a
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