Project Acronym:PEPPOL Grant Agreement number: Project Title:Pan European Public Procurement Online Website: PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Editors:Susanne Kamptner, BRZ Klaus Vilstrup Pedersen, DIFI Bergthor Skulason, NITA Version: [1.00] Status: [in use] PostAward eProcurement Transport Infrastructure Conformance and test Strategy

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PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Page 3 Revision History VersionDateEditorOrgDescription Bergthor SkulasonNITAFirst versoin 2.0Second version

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No PEPPOL Conformance and testing X

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Conformance and testing Strategy The vision of PEPPOL is that any company, including SMEs, in the European Union can communicate electronically with any EU governmental institution in all procurement processes. Facilitate EU-wide interoperable public eProcurement network Work with existing national solutions Electronic documents that are conformant to PEPPOL specifications can be exchanged widely within Europe in open procurement communities and the issuer can with high degree of certainty expect the document to pass validation by the receiver. Goal of PEPPOL interoperability is to electronically enable parties to exchange a set of information to be used within a minimal but well defined set of procurement processes without previous bi lateral setup of data, content rules and process specifications. Page 5

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Conformance and testing Scope Quality assurance to make sure the defined specifications of PEPPOL deliverables work together exchanging PEPPOL documents PEPPOL project internal evaluation of the Pilot implementations within the scope of PEPPOL. Test interconnectivity on basis of a number of test scenarios. The test scenarios contain the interconnectivity between one source AP and one destination AP including the necessary transactions with individual SMPs and the SML. They should as well contain all relevant types of BIS implemented by the participant Activities that are NOT in scope of Interoperability Testing: Internal testing of individual implementations and interfaces Full process of document transfer for all PEPPOL BISs with all BIS´ details Page 6

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Conformance and testing Principles PEPPOL compliance means, that a solution or implementation of PEPPOL process is conformant to all business, technical, organizational, and legal specifications, defined by PEPPOL or committed to by PEPPOL. PEPPOL conformance is defined as testing process for implementers to claim conformance to a set of legal and technical specifications defined by PEPPOL. PEPPOL conformance is therefore based on self evaluation. Testing and validation provide the processes and tools for participant to claim conformance Pilot participant must claim conformance to PEPPOL specifications. This is based on a self evaluation process supported by guidelines, test documents and compliance criteria. Page 7

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Page 8 eProcurement without borders in Europe