The OGC Compliance & Interoperability Testing & Evaluation (CITE) Initiative is an ongoing initiative of the OGC that is building tests for OGC specifications. CITE-1, the first in the series, developed a planning and feasibility study that helped to refine the existing Compliance Testing Program. CITE-1 developed a scriptable compliance testing engine and tests for WMS 1.1.1 and WFS 1.0.0, as well as a validation capability for GML 2.1.2. The CITE-1 initiative also developed reference implementations for WMS and WFS and this important portal resource. OWS-2 developed a compliance test suite and reference implementation for WCS 1.0.0.

OWS-4 integrated a new open source engine that can be run from the command line or web interface, developed a new Compliance Test Language (CTL), migrated the existing WFS 1.0 and WMS 1.1.1 test suites to the new engine, and developed new test suites for CSW 2.0.1, WFS 1.1, WMS 1.3. In addition, the new engine will validate Web Map Context (WMC 1.1.0) instance documents. A GeoRSS feed validator was also created during this timeframe.

CITE-related work may occur within other Interoperability Initiatives (such as OWS-5) or may also occur in focused initatives in the future. CITE-related work can also be accomplished completely outside of initiatives and, in fact, OGC strongly encourages those who are able to do just that! We only ask that you notify us of your intent so that we can coordinate these activities to avoid redundant or conflicting work.

OGC welcomes you to this portal resource and encourages you to engage us to any extent possible in helping to make OGC testing even better!