Tests of control designed to obtain audit evidence on both the effectiveness of the controls and their operation during the audit period Components (as in component-based development) Cooperating packages of executable software that make their services available through defined interfaces. Components used in developing systems may be commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) or may be purposely built. However, the goal of component-based development is to ultimately use as much predeveloped, pretested components as possible.

Allows MMCA members to assure hardware and software compatibility of their cards with the MultiMediaCard standard. It does not currently test host compliance.