- From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:30:36 +0900
- To: Kris Krueger <krisk@microsoft.com>
- Cc: 'James Graham' <jgraham@opera.com>, "'public-html-testsuite@w3.org'" <public-html-testsuite@w3.org>
Kris Krueger <krisk@microsoft.com>, 2009-11-20 05:12 +0000:
> Hopefully we can agree that it would be good to add this 'meta data' for tests in
> some form in the test suite.
One way of doing that is:
- store the metadata for each set of test cases in a central DB
- make a manifest file for each set of test cases
- the manifest file does not itself contain all the metadata,
but instead just provides the means for making the association
between each test case and its record in the DB
- a set of test cases can then be distributed along with the
manifest, as a zip file
- for client test tools to retrieve metadata, we provide a API
that allows a client, given a test case and an associated manifest,
to retrieve the metadata for that test case from the DB
- for client test tools to report test results, we provide an
API that allows a client, given a test case and an associated
manifest, to submit the results for that test case against the
unique record for that test case in the DB
--
Michael(tm) Smith
http://people.w3.org/mike/
Received on Friday, 20 November 2009 05:30:51 UTC