- From: (unknown charset) Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:48:05 -0700 (MST)
- To: (unknown charset) Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: (unknown charset) public-evangelist@w3.org
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Karl Dubost wrote: > Le 10 mars 2004, à 05:35, Brian Kelly a écrit : > > > I think it would be useful if W3C could produce a test suite > > containing a range of errors, which users & developers of checking > > software would test their programs against. > > Yes completely agreed on that. And Olivier Théreaux has started work > since the begining of the year 2004 on that. It will take a bit of > time, but it's in the process. And who is writing a test suite to test Olivier's test suite? Seriously, while testing never hurts, and more testing usually increases chances of finding bugs, there is always a point of diminishing returns. I am [pleasantly] surprised to learn that W3C has already built all the first-priority testing tools and is now developing tools to test test suites, including its own validators. IMHO, a large representative collection of known-to-be-valid and known-to-be-invalid documents that are related to W3C standards would indeed be a vary valuable resource for validator authors and beyond. A test suite to test test suites should be a much lower priority. Alex. -- Protocol performance, functionality, and reliability testing. Tools, services, and know-how. http://www.measurement-factory.com/
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