Communications Systems Year 2000 End-To-End Tests

Abstract : This report is one in a series being issued by the Inspector General, DoD, in accordance with an informal partnership with the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to monitor DoD efforts to address the year 2000 computing challenge. This report addresses year 2000 issues that pertain to the end-to-end testing of communications systems. For a listing of audit projects addressing the issue, see the year 2000 webpage on the IGNET at http://www.ignet.gov. The overall objective of the audit was to evaluate the effectiveness of the planned communications systems Y2K end-to-end tests. Specifically, we reviewed mission-critical communications systems to determine whether they were tested as required and verified that test plans and results conformed to requirements in the DoD Y2K Management Plan.