Research And Implement On The Compliance Testing Of China Online Information Exchange Standards

At present, the development of the publishing industry has been greatly promoted by the development of information, as a kind of evidence that IT technology has been implemented into every fields and processes, which has improved the digitization of publication content, the automation of publishing process and the information of management. Simultaneously, more than two thousands different standards are used in this industry. As a result, there is much inconvenience during the communication and information exchanging. In order to solve the problems, China Online Information Exchange, short as CNONIX, was drafted and implemented. A specification introduced by CNONIX relate to the fields of publishing, selling and collecting. Especially, it can handle the consistence of data exchange. Therefor CNONIX will help enhancing the efficiency of related work and the quality of the data used into exchanging.CNONIX provides a complete electronic information exchange format, and defines the data items and data format that need to use for data exchange by relative software. The third-party software which conform CNONIX is able to streamline workflow and improve efficiency. To ensure these software could produce XML files under the standard, a kind of compliance testing method was proposed, which can deal the compliance testing under CNONIX.This method contains the two parts of problem, testing a third-part software, in which XML files are seen as testing cases, and validating a separate XML file. Considering the complex of the standard, during the compliance test, many test suits will be produced. To resolve that, a minimal test suite generation method is researched to produce test cases as few as possible under the premise of covering every testing requirement. Besides the difficulty above, the dependencies exist between elements. Based on exist verification technology, two new methods were raised to resolve the problem introduced by the correlation of different elements.In this paper, the research work and the results were reviewed and summarized. A CNONIX compliance testing platform was constructed under the results of the research and the entire of the process of the research was validated. The design method was also introduced in this article. Summary and outlook were displayed at last. The research is a practical example of the implementing of computer technology in other fields, and the research solution will be used into the publishing industry to help its development.