Download the VSX-PCTS Verification Suite

Developed as the official European certification tool for testing ISO POSIX 9945-1 conformance (an implementation of IEEE Std 2003.1 - Test Methods for POSIX.1), VSX-PCTS can be used to assess operating systems for conformance to ISO/IEC 9945-1 (IEEE Std POSIX 1003.1-1990), with additional test modes for POSIX.1-1996 and FIPS 151-2 coverage. VSX-PCTS is actively maintained by The Open Group , and is derived from a subset of the industry leading VSX4 test suite.

VSX-PCTS is freely available under the following Open Source (tm) Licence

The Software in this directory is as follows

• The README file for this release.

• The VSX-PCTS FAQ file.

• VSX-PCTS Source distribution (comes as a kit of three files) (Last updated November 1999)
  • VSXgen Generic test framework (compress'd tar file) ( vsxgen-os-1.4A.tar.Z - 570kytes )
  • VSX Namespace Test Analyzer utility (compress'd tar file) ( vsx-vtools-1.4.tar.Z - 132kbytes )
  • VSX-PCTS testset (compress'd tar file) ( vsx-pcts-4.4.4.tar.Z - 4Mbytes ).

• The VSX-PCTS Release notes
  • Compress'd Postscript file ( posixrel.ps.Z - 6Kbytes )
  • PDF file ( posixrel.pdf - 4Kbytes )

• The VSX-PCTS User Guide
  • Compress'd Postscript (posixgde.ps.Z 224Kbytes )
  • PDF (posixgde.pdf 260Kbytes )

• The Pseudolanguage specification for the VSX Locales
  • PDF ( pslspec.pdf 45 Kbytes ).

• Problem Reporting and Hints :
  • Problems can be reported using the following web form.
  • A Hints file for Linux is available.