United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1999-10-18 monographic deposited born digital 58 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-00-12 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12 P0b002ee180378fad f:ai00012 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12 AIMD-00-12 Y2K Computer software verification and validation Systems conversions Data integrity Strategic information systems planning Information resources management Systems compatibility Y2K Letter Report AIMD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the effectiveness of the Department of Defense's efforts to perform year 2000-related end-to-end tests for its major business functions.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) because year 2000 conversions often involve numerous large interconnecting systems with many external interfaces and extensive supporting technology infrastructures, year 2000 testing should be approached in a structured and disciplined fashion; (2) GAO's year 2000 guidance recommends that in planning and managing end-to-end tests, agencies define test boundaries, secure the commitment of data exchange partners, prepare test procedures and data, define exit criteria and document test results, among other steps; (3) each of the individual test events GAO attended and reviewed within the four functional areas generally satisfied the key processes that GAO's year 2000 test guide defines as necessary to effectively plan, conduct, and report on end-to-end testing; (4) moreover, while the events' respective approaches to implementing the key processes varied, these differences were appropriately based on consideration of the event's scope and complexity; (5) in addition, overall end-to-end test efforts within three of the four functional areas were reported to be largely on schedule and expected to be completed by October 1999; (6) however, at the time GAO briefed the Communications functional area on the results of GAO's review, it could not provide complete progress information; and (7) while information was subsequently provided by Communications, it showed that the functional area had not yet developed plans to test 31 mission-critical systems. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12.pdf GAO/AIMD-00-12 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-12 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-00-12; Defense Computers: DOD Y2K Functional End-to-End Testing; Y2K Computer software verification and validation Systems conversions Data integrity Strategic information systems planning Information resources management Systems compatibility Y2K