FIPS 140-2 , The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, (FIPS PUB 140-2), is a U.S. government computer security standard used to approve cryptographic modules. The title is Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules.

Purpose is to build and run the FIPS related test cases in openQA locally, because of the SLES15 will support FIPS in x86_64, s390x, ppc64le architecture and the automated tests in FIPS are improved.