OGC Catalogue 3.0 Conformance Test Suite

The OGC Catalogue 3.0 test suite verifies catalog implementations for conformance against the following specifications:

OGC Catalogue Services 3.0 Specification - HTTP Protocol Binding [OGC 12-176r7]
Catalog Services Specification 3.0 - General Model [OGC 12-168r6]
OGC Catalogue Services 3.0 Specification - HTTP Protocol Binding - Abstract Test Suite [OGC 14-014r3]
OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions [OGC 10-032r8]
OpenSearch 1.1 [Draft 5]
The Atom Syndication Format [RFC 4287]

The test suite currently covers the following conformance classes:

Basic-Catalogue
OpenSearch

The test run arguments are summarized in the following table. The Obligation descriptor can have the following values: M (mandatory), O (optional), or C (conditional).

Test run arguments
Name	Value domain	Obligation	Description
iut	URI	M	A URI that refers to a service capabilities document (csw:Capabilities) that describes the implementation under test. Ampersand (%26) characters must be percent-encoded as ‘%26’.