The purpose of the Testing Program is to help vendors and users to take advantage of the valuable OpenGIS® Implementation Specifications that OGC has created. The program provides a process for testing compliance of products to OpenGIS® Implementation Specifications, and, eventually, for testing interoperability between compliant products. Once compliance testing occurs and is successfully completed, OGC will license vendors of such systems to use OGC's marks (trademarks or certification marks) that will identify to users the capability of products with respect to OpenGIS® Implementation Specifications. Interoperability Testing will be implemented as a service and will NOT result in the use of OGC marks.

Please visit the Compliance Testing Program pages of the main OGC web site for more details on the programmatic aspects of OGC compliance testing. To begin the compliance certification process please download and read the Compliance Testing Program documentation.

Background information is available at the history of CITE.