ISO/IEC 18045:2008(E)
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7.3 Evaluation input task
7.3.1 Objectives
The objective of this task is to ensure that the evaluator has available the correct version of the evaluation
evidence necessary for the evaluation and that it is adequately protected. Otherwise, the technical accuracy of
the evaluation cannot be assured, nor can it be assured that the evaluation is being conducted in a way to
provide repeatable and reproducible results.
7.3.2 Application notes
The responsibility to provide all the required evaluation evidence lies with the sponsor. However, most of the
evaluation evidence is likely to be produced and supplied by the developer, on behalf of the sponsor.
Since the assurance requirements apply to the entire TOE, all evaluation evidence pertaining to all parts of the
TOE is to be made available to the evaluator. The scope and required content of such evaluation evidence is
independent of the level of control that the developer has over each of the parts of the TOE. For example, if
design is required, then the TOE design (ADV_TDS) requirements will apply to all subsystems that are part of
the TSF. In addition, assurance requirements that call for procedures to be in place (for example, CM
capabilities (ALC_CMC) and Delivery (ALC_DEL)) will also apply to the entire TOE (including any part
produced by another developer).
It is recommended that the evaluator, in conjunction with the sponsor, produce an index to required evaluation
evidence. This index may be a set of references to the documentation. This index should contain enough
information (e.g. a brief summary of each document, or at least an explicit title, indication of the subclauses of
interest) to help the evaluator to find easily the required evidence.
It is the information contained in the evaluation evidence that is required, not any particular document
structure. Evaluation evidence for a sub-activity may be provided by separate documents, or a single
document may satisfy several of the input requirements of a sub-activity.
The evaluator requires stable and formally-issued versions of evaluation evidence. However, draft evaluation
evidence may be provided during an evaluation, for example, to help an evaluator make an early, informal
assessment, but is not used as the basis for verdicts. It may be helpful for the evaluator to see draft versions
of particular appropriate evaluation evidence, such as:
a) test documentation, to allow the evaluator to make an early assessment of tests and test procedures;
b) design documents, to provide the evaluator with background for understanding the TOE design;
c) source code or hardware drawings, to allow the evaluator to assess the application of the developer's
standards.
Draft evaluation evidence is more likely to be encountered where the evaluation of a TOE is performed
concurrently with its development. However, it may also be encountered during the evaluation of an already-
developed TOE where the developer has had to perform additional work to address a problem identified by
the evaluator (e.g. to correct an error in design or implementation) or to provide evaluation evidence of
security that is not provided in the existing documentation (e.g. in the case of a TOE not originally developed
to meet the requirements of ISO/IEC 15408).
7.3.3 Management of evaluation evidence sub-task
7.3.3.1 Configuration control
The evaluator shall perform configuration control of the evaluation evidence.
ISO/IEC 15408 implies that the evaluator is able to identify and locate each item of evaluation evidence after it
has been received and is able to determine whether a specific version of a document is in the evaluator's
possession.