Re: test cases on wiki

On 19 May 2008, at 16:34, Bijan Parsia wrote:

>
> Ok, I tried to take a look.
>
> First, I'm not on the RIF wiki, so I can't get at the wiki code.
>
> Second, it seems fairly complicated. Right now, I'd just like to  
> convert my extant table about anonymous individuals into test cases:
>
> 	http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Anonymous_Individuals
>
> They are entailment tests with a couple of non-entailments.
>
> In the interest of moving forward, I decided to just grab the last  
> thing that made sense to me:
> 	http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Template:TestCase
> 	http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Test_Case_Experiment
>
> There's a lot of YANGI[1] in this (e.g., multiple inputs syntaxes).  
> So I just ignored that for the moment.
>
> Here's a test case:
> 	http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/BnodeTest1_1
> I linked to it from this page:
> 	http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Anonymous_Individuals

Thanks for the useful test case.

>
> Which seems a tad nice, I guess.
>
> Writing test cases really really sucks, by the by.

Can you say a little more about what the problems are and how you  
think they might be addressed?

> I strongly request of the chairs that we do something to move this  
> forward. Test cases written in a crunch at the end are going to be  
> painful to do and hard to validate. I suggest that we actually put  
> some people in charge of doing this.

We are on to it.

>
> I am not one of those people!

Agreed.

Ian


>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain't_Gonna_Need_It
>