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Six major international agencies join forces in sponsoring software integrity tests for the Triple-S data standard

New developers’ testbed will improve the quality and reliability of software developers’ Triple-S imports and exports.

A validation suite of software, to allow developers of market research software to test that all imports and exports they create to the Triple-S data standard fully comply with the standard, is to be created by the Triple-S group. It is being funded through generous sponsorship from six major research companies and providers of research data (in alphabetical order) GfK, Ipsos MORI, IRI, Kantar, Synovate and TNS.

Read the full Press Release here.

Triple-S is now seeking expressions of interest from software developers wishing to undertake the development of the validation suite.