- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:19:42 +0200
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- CC: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Hi Jeremy, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > I am using EARL to produce test reports for GRDDL tests. > My software being tested occasionally crashes :( > > I report: > earl:pass and earl:fail as appropriate, > and also earl:notApplicable (because some of the GRDDL tests come in > groups which require only one test to be passed) > > I was thinking that there might be an appropriate code, e.g. > earl:disaster, for reporting that my software crashed during the test. > There isn't. And for the purposes of testing, I guess the distinction > between earl:disaster and earl:fail is not important. So, if there was a > useful mechanism for extending earl:fail then I might use it. As is, > EARL allows me to add my own comment (e.g. earl:info) to the > earl:TestResult, so I don't see any need to suggest any other changes. Thank you for sharing your experiences with EARL. Please feel free to provide a pointer or description to your testing tool/script, we will be collecting information about EARL implementations in the next while. As to your question regarding extensibility, it should be possible to subclass earl:fail for application-specific purposes. However, we also received another comment on this part of the spec and will be addressing it in our next publication. Regards, Shadi -- Shadi Abou-Zahra Web Accessibility Specialist for Europe | Chair & Staff Contact for the Evaluation and Repair Tools WG | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), http://www.w3.org/WAI/ | WAI-TIES Project, http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/ | Evaluation and Repair Tools WG, http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ | 2004, Route des Lucioles - 06560, Sophia-Antipolis - France | Voice: +33(0)4 92 38 50 64 Fax: +33(0)4 92 38 78 22 |
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