BS ISO/IEC 19794-1:2011+A2:2015

This part of ISO/IEC 19794 specifies

• general aspects for the usage of biometric data records,

• the processing levels and types of biometric data structures,

• a naming convention for biometric data structures, and

• a coding scheme for format types.

This part of ISO/IEC 19794 also specifies the concepts, test types and conformance testing methodologies to test biometric data interchange records or computer algorithms that create biometric data interchange records. It defines two types (type A, i.e., biometric data interchange records and systems generating such records; and type B, i.e., systems using biometric data interchange records), and three levels (Level1, i.e., checking internal content of each field; Level 2, i.e., checking internal consistency of the entire record; and Level 3, i.e., checking whether the data record is a faithful representation of the original biometric data) of conformance testing, but it only provides a detailed description and methodology for the three levels of Type A testing. This part of ISO/IEC 19794 specifies test requirements, assertions, and test execution and reporting procedures that are common for most or all biometric data interchange formats. It explicitly does not cover the following areas:

• Modality-specific detailed test elements and assertions or descriptions of any mandatory standard datasets required for testing. They are provided in the subsequent parts of ISO/IEC 19794.

• Testing whether implementations under test (IUTs) that claim to be able to use conformant biometric data interchange records are able to correctly process such biometric data interchange records(Type B testing).

• Conformance testing of CBEFF requirements

• Testing of other characteristics of biometric products or other types of testing of biometric products (i.e., acceptance, performance, robustness, security).