Test Development for Voting Systems Why Test Suites In the
marketplace, testing provides a vehicle for exchanging
information between a buyer and a seller. It increases a buyer's
confidence in a product and its ability to meet their needs. For
sellers (e.g., manufacturers), testing can help to substantiate
claims that a product meets a given specification. For the
voting systems program, testing is used to provide confidence
both to election officials and to the entire community that they
serve that voting systems meet the Voluntary Voting System
Guidelines (VVSG). There are many different types of testing and
testing programs. The type of testing program used by the
election community was established in the 2002 Help America Vote
Act (HAVA) and consists of nationally accredited laboratories
providing testing services and a national certification
performed by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The
question remains, though, what kind of tests should the
accredited laboratories perform? How can the EAC a