ABBET will provide standards for an integrated environment, realizing the capabilities of test related standards including, at a minimum, active standards sponsored by the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 20. The ABBET family of standards consists of a base standard and a series (P1226.1, etc.) of componet standards and guides. This PAR is for the base standard which represents an overview of ABBET and its architecture. The architecture describes the elements of ABBET and their inter-relationships. The ABBET base standard also establishes guidelines and requirements to govern the elements of the ABBET component standards and guides. To define a standard, broad based, environment which uses other standards relating to design, test, and maintenance activities. Revision Standard - Inactive-Withdrawn. Withdrawn Standard. Withdrawn Date: Jan 16, 2004. The overall concept of A Broad-Based Environment for Test (ABBET) TM is defined, andmandatory requirements for implementation of ABBET are specified. The elements of ABBET and their interrelationships are described. Guidelines and requirements governing the elements of theABBET set of standards and guides are established, and common terms to be used throughout theset are defined.