POSIX Certification Test Suites

Last Updated October 8 2009

Current version

Test Suite	Version Number	Released on GA	Authorized for use in Certification	Product Standard	Notes
The Open Group POSIX Conformance Test Suite for System Interfaces VSX-PCTS2003 certification test suite	2.1	8 October 2009	3 November 2003	1003.1-2003 System Interfaces	VSX-PCTS2003-1.9 expires April 8 2010
The Open Group POSIX Conformance Test Suite for Shell and Utilities VSC-PCTS2003 certification test suite	1.11	16 Apr 2009	3 November 2003	1003.1-2003 Shell and Utilities, 1003.13-2003 Shell and Utilities
The Open Group POSIX Conformance Test Suite for PSE54 Multipurpose Realtime 1003.13-2003 System VSPSE54-2003 certification test suite	1.4	28 May 2008	1 June 2005	1003.13-2003 PSE54 System Interfaces
The Open Group POSIX Conformance Test Suite for PSE52 Realtime Controller 1003.13-2003 System VSPSE52-2003 certification test suite Comprises VSTH-PSE5.4.10, VSRT-PSE5.3.10, VSX4-PSE4.7.1	1.1	Mar 13 2008	17 May 2006	PSE52 Realtime Controller 1003.13-2003 System	VSX4.6.9 expires April 8 2010

Only current versions that are authorized for Certification as listed above can be used for formal registration. Latest versions of the certification test suites are available for no fee to organizations submitting a product for certification.

The licenses together with instructions are available here in PDF:
» VSX-PCTS2003 License [PDF]
» VSC-PCTS2003 License [PDF]

The Open Group also supports open source projects developing implementations of the standards by providing a twelve month free license. For more information contact conformance-at-opengroup.org.

Previous version - still valid

Test Suite	Version Number	Expiry date
VSX-PCTS2003	1.9	8 Apr 2010
VSC-PCTS2003	1.10	16 Oct 2009

*For PSE52 see the above table

Maintenance Release Schedule *

Test Suite	Version Number	Expected Beta date	Expected GA date
-	-	-	-

* Note the above dates are estimates and subject to change. Those without exact dates will only occur if sufficient bug reports warrant a maintenance release.

CHANGEOVER POLICY

See the POSIX Certification Policy for the policy on the overlap period when new releases of test suites are introduced.