Appendix A.  Call for Community Testing: 4.1.1 C WS Core

1. What is a "Call for Community Testing"?

A Call for Community Testing is a mechanism to notify our users that new Globus code is available for testing in the field. Through these calls, we hope to expose the code to a wide variety of usage scenarios early in its development process. The ultimate goals are to catch bugs that have historically been found only after final releases, and to elicit feedback from the community on ways our software can be improved.

2. Participating in the C WS Core Testing Call is easy!

  1. Install the software in a non-production environment. Use the 4.1.1 distribution from http://www.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/development/; the code can also be retrieved directly from CVS using the tag globus_4_1_1.
  2. Exercise the software.
  3. Log your experiences in http://bugzilla.globus.org/globus/ under the "C WS Core" product . Please mention 4.1.1 explicitly in the body of the report.
  4. If you have any questions or comments regarding this component, join the cwscore-user@globus.org list to participate in discussions with other testers. (To subscribe, read the instructions here.)
  5. Optional: Consider sending descriptions of your tests to javawscore-dev@globus.org so that we might use them to build standard tests in the future. (To subscribe, read the instructions here.)

3. Testing period

The testing period for this call is [FIXME: date range].

4. About C WS Core

The C WS Core provides a basic toolset in C for creating WSRF-enabled web services and clients conforming to the WS-Resource and WS-Notification specifications.

5. Reasons for testing C WS Core

[FIXME: include the reasons why this component needs testing]

6. Technology dependencies

C WS Core depends on the following GT components:

  • C Common Libraries
  • Pre-WS Authentication and Authorization (GSI)
  • Globus XIO (used by C WS core for efficient HTTP and TCP transport)

C WS Core depends on the following 3rd party software:

  • Libxml2 (used by C WS Core for SOAP XML parsing and WSDL parsing)
  • OpenSSL (used by C WS Core for Security)
  • JavaScript (used by C WS Core as a template language to generate the C bindings from WSDL schemas)

7. Environment/build parameters and other special conditions to test

  1. [FIXME]