Info on Webinar & Update of Milesones! (Implementor? Please read!)

Dear Members, 

This email contains an overview of the webinar (via GoToMeeting) being held on 4th December from 14.00 UTC - 16.00 UTC. All implementors are requested to attend, if this causes you a problem let me know and I will arrange for you to get a video copy of the session. I'd also ask you to forward this mail to any developers, within your organisation, who will be working on the test suite. The purpose of the webinar is as follows:

Provide an overview of input and output files. (Dom)
Provide a narrative on how the testing process works. (Dom)
Run through commitments to testing data categories. (Dom)
Run through key dates (Dom) 

Work through one full example in Java of the Ruby data category showing (Leroy):
	• Parsing of input file.
	• Processing input files and applying rules. 
	• Outputting conformant code. 
	• Diff'ing of implementation output against gold standard. 
	• Example code will be provided. 
	
Run through the structured approach we are taking to bug fixing. (Dom/Leroy). 

Q&A session. (All) 

The approach we are taking to example code is showing you exactly how to parse, process and output xml for the Ruby data category, we can show full code for this data category as it will only be made conformant in internal implementations, i.e. non of you have this as a data category which you need to test. This gives you an idea as to how to apply the test process to other data categories. Parsing and outputting can be standard and used across all data categories across all implementations but processing and application of rules must be developed in house. 

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KEY DATES:

M1:     15th November 2012 - (Test files reviewed) - Ongoing process. 
M1.5:  4th December 2012 - Webinar on Test Suite conformance / usage. 
M2:     17th December 2012 - Implementors have run at least one global and one local test file, for each of their data categories. One XML and one HTML as well.
M3:     31st January 2013 - Test files completely run.
M4:     8th March 2013 - Data category used in application, spreadsheet updated with conformant / non-conformant implementations.
M5:    15th March 2013 - MLW-LT review - Presentation on test process and 80% of data categories shown to be conformant. 

Please note, I have updated the spreadsheet (http://bit.ly/RWh2e0) with these new key dates. M5 is the key, I will be pushing towards M5 over the next few months allowing us to tweak the remaining 20%, more difficult data cats and publicising the test suite over the remaining months. If you can manage HR to meet this goal then that would be great! Apologies for the long mail, I try to write fewer mails but with more content :)

Let me know if you have any questions. 

Dom



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Dominic Jones | Research Assistant 
KDEG, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Received on Thursday, 22 November 2012 12:16:31 UTC