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The decision was made to start with self-assessment. This will enable the EdgeX community to achieve its goals for interoperability of components, while avoiding the burden of creating formal processes until the community and market demand has been established.
Phases
Given the complexity and effort to create a meaningful certification program, we are suggesting a phased approach in the crawl, walk, run model. Release targets for the phases will be defined in collaboration with the TSC and other WG.
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Success will be having a self-assessment package available and being used by developers to confirm readiness of their components. The learnings from this experience will be used to inform the development of the formal certification process.
Walk - "Certification"
The objective of the Walk phase is to be able to evaluate and declare an EdgeX Device Service component as being certified. The focus is on making sure the process and tests exist and are sufficient, even if highly manual for execution.
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