- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:59:44 -0500
- To: Melissa Newman <melissa@newmanfamily.org>
- CC: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
On 1/31/10 8:13 AM, Melissa Newman wrote: > Who is the target audience for these test cases? Is this to test the > specification against real life examples (does it actually make sense)? To a large extent, yes. The test suites should ideally be such as to be able the "Is this specification implementable?" question. Better yet, "Is this specification implementable by just reading it and then implementing it?" (though this latter is hard). > Or do companies like firefox, Opera, and Microsoft actually go to SVN > and obtain these test files to use for their own internal testing? The current way the tests are set up (with arbitrary pass conditions that require either a person or very good AI to decide whether the test has passed) makes this pretty difficult to do. But yes, at some point implementation reports are supposed to be produced that indicate how the implementations do on the tests... Not sure whether this answers your questions. -Boris
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