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Valencia publishes FASTeTEN software test and installation plans
The Regional Government of Valencia, a partner in the FASTeTEN project, which is supported by the European Commission, has published a software test plan, and details of the installation and configuration procedures that will allow the FAST bundle of services to function on the Valencia eProcurement platform.
FASTeTEN is a project to deploy a bundle of services for secure electronic document exchange across Europe. The bundle of services, FAST – Fournisseur d’Accès Sécurisés Transactionnels (Secure Access Gateway) – has been successfully developed and piloted in France. As part of this project, funded by the European Commission’s eTEN programme, two different applications of FAST are being trialed: in eProcurement in Valencia, Spain, and in educational services in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
The Valencia software test plan sets out the tests that are to be performed in order to ensure that the requirements for the FAST Valencia application are fulfilled as far as the FAST platform is concerned. The tests deal with electronic signatures, authorisation, signature validation, archiving, and provision of proofs that electronic documents have been received.
The plan setting out the installation and configuration procedures in Valencia examines how the FAST services can be integrated with the regional government’s eProcurement platform. This is being done using open source software.
This work follows on from definition of the different aspects of the deployment of FAST in Valencia. In May 2008, Valencia published three reports concerning Electronic Workflow Processes, System Requirement Specifications, and the Software Design Definition. For information about these, click here.
In Valencia, FAST will allow bidders for regional government contracts to securely submit their bids in electronic format, and receive secure responses in the same way. FAST offers a number of services to enable this: identity management, administration of digital certificates, rights management and authentication, time stamping, document validation, encryption and archiving.
The Valencia software test plan, and installation and configuration procedures documents can be downloaded by clicking below.
