In due course SC5/WG18, later SC22/WG12, put forward proposals for two new work items, one on methods of testing programming language processors for conformity to a language standard, and one providing guidelines on how to prepare conformity clauses for programming language standards. These work items were in due course established and assigned to WG12, resulting in the ISO Technical Reports listed below.
Having completed its work, WG12 was disbanded in 1989, its final report to SC22 being document SC22/N0714. Its Technical Reports remain as guidance for SC22 and other committees concerned with standardizing programming languages.
Approved international specifications produced:
This page prepared by Brian Meek; last revised 8 April 1996