Draft Abstract Test Suite for Determining Conformance to the BACnet Protocol

摘要

The BACnet communication protocol for building automation and control systems isin an advanced state of development and is expected to be released for public review in early 1991. When the review process is completed it will become an ASHRAE standard. One of the important outstanding issues to be resolved is conformance to the standard and how to test devices to determine if they meet the conformance requirements. The report is a draft Abstract Test Suite based on working draft three of the proposed standard. The Abstract Test Suite is a first step in developing the tests which will be used to certify conformance to BACnet. Its purpose is to provide a starting point from which a conformance certification program can be built and to focus discussions on the outstanding conformance issues that need to be resolved before the standard can be considered complete. The role of an abstract test suite in the conformance testing process is described, a proposed BACnet test system architecture is presented and individual test cases are defined. Test cases to determine support for object types and application services defined in working draft three are included. A standard object configuration is also proposed to simplify the testing process.