Re: Required Metrics

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <842359703wnr@natron.demon.co.uk>,
  Roger@natron.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> As an aside, what is the status of the validation suite
nowadays,
> i.e. is there an Ada 95 revision administered by the DoD and
their
> appointed agencies outside of the US ?


In brief, validation has become internationalized and is now
under control of ISO WG9, it is no longer a process administered
by the authorities in one member nation, and thus completely
outside the ISO process. The ISO WG9/ARG now adjudicates
validation issues, and there is an ISO standard for validation
of Ada compilers (not quite sure if it is formally approved yet,
but if not it is essentially at that stage).

Any organization following the requirements of this ISO
standard can carry out ISO style validations. In the
US, the Ada Resource Association funds an organization
that carries out validations.

New tests are being written as appropriate, under the aegis
of the ARG.

SO in fact AJPO getting out of the validation business has
resulted in a considerable upgrade of the entire validation
process.

Validations under the new procedures and test suite have already
been successfully performed, and now have formal international
recognition.

Perhaps Randy Burkhardt would like to add something to this
thread at this point if he is reading it :-)


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