compliance assurance / metadata response

[Ulrike Stampa]

Doug,

the service verification tool for SSA you described below is exactly
what I meant, so I am looking forward to testing it. When will it be
available? :-)

Another question on metadata response: in section 6.2 it says: "the
columns that are returned by a spectrum query are described with the
FIELD elements exactly as they are described in a normal spectrum query
response. " And later "Each input parameter should be listed as a PARAM
element..."
In the sample Metadata Query Response (Appendix B) PARAM is used for
both input and output parameters.
So which version is the correct one?
Thanks.
Ulrike
 
Doug Tody schrieb:
> Ulrike -
>
> What is planned is to have a service verfication tool for SSA;
> one would give the URL of a new service to the verifier, and it
> would run a standard set of tests and return the results.  We have
> something similar already for cone search and SIA, but not yet for SSA.
> This would be done before registering the final service.  All this
> would verify though is the protocol, not the scientific validity of
> the metadata or data.
>
> 	- Doug
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Ulrike Stampa wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> after having followed some of the ongoing discussions about required and
>> supported parameters in the ssap I wondered if there is a way to
>> guarantee that registered SSA services are actually compliant to the
>> standard. Does anything like test cases (e.g. a collection of
>> HTTP-queries together with their expected results) for the newest
>> version exist already? Is there some authority to check the compliance
>> of newly-registered services or is it completely up to the developper's
>> responsibility? Of course these test cases would only cover  "formal
>> compliance" of the interface (like checking  of input parameters, 
>> acceptance of mandatory parameters, returning error messages etc.) not
>> the correct behaviour of the service itself!
>> As I am presently trying to test my newly written SSAP service, it would
>> help me a lot to make sure that my service is really compliant.
>>
>> If this topic is covered in some other document already I would be
>> grateful for the hint.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ulrike Stampa
>>
>>