IVCT WIKI

The NATO Simulation Interoperability Test and Certification Service Integration, Verification and Certification Tool (IVCT) is a core technical framework provided by Certification Entity (CE) and used to support test and verification of simulation interoperability requirements (IR). The IVCT is used for testing of individual simulation components interoperability capabilities and to support integration of distributed simulations. Accredited Test Laboratories (ATL) use the IVCT to perform certification testing.

The IVCT is a component based software package with modules supporting scheduling, execution and reporting of results from running Executable Test Cases (ETC). The IVCT executes in a High level Architecture (HLA) federation together with the System-under-Test-Environment consisting of the System under Test (SuT) and other auxiliary federates and systems. The IVCT Test Engine runs ETCs to stimulate and to check responses from the SuT. Results are reported by the IVCT as successful or unsuccessful verification of IRs.

A System under Test (SuT) that successfully completes verification can receive a certificate and capability badges as tokens of interoperability compliance.

The IVCT can be downloaded here.