Re: [announcement] Automatic /TR publishing

On 02/20/2015 07:33 AM, Kostiainen, Anssi wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
>> On 20 Feb 2015, at 02:33, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/19/2015 11:31 AM, Kostiainen, Anssi wrote:
> [...]
>
>>> Should I be able to use the full system locally too for testing purposes?
>> Unfortunately not, since some of the system is linked to our DB and the IPP system. We tried to expose as much as possible in the source code provided in github. At the minimum, you should be able to run specberus locally and probably the third-party checker.
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> Could stub implementations of the said interfaces be used for testing purposes locally?
>
> [...]

Yes, to certain extend, this could be done and has been done partially, see
  https://github.com/w3c/echidna/blob/master/test/lib/testserver.js

We're basically simulating the expected answer from those services, but 
keep in mind that there are limits to what can be done here unfortunately.

>> Feel free to contribute to the documentation as well btw. We realize that it's not the best and we keep tweaking to help guide folks.
> I contributed changes to the documentation to clarify this aspect.

Thank you!

Philippe

Received on Friday, 20 February 2015 16:08:44 UTC