Re: Selling the product

I wonder how well EARL can integrate a foreign framework already
specifying testcase description in XML or RDF.

We have some support for testcase description EARL (purpose, id, etc),
is that optional, in conflict, or complementary with what could be
found in the DOM methods.dtd ?



> Hello all,
> 
> The primary question from Monday's telecon was "how do we convince 
> developers to use EARL."  We've put this on the agenda for our joint 
> conference call with the AU WG on Monday.
> 
> Can we think of arguments, that are not accessibility related, that we 
> could use to convince developers?  For example, how would we convince the 
> DOM test harness developers to produce EARL.  Why would they want to do that?
> 
> As we discussed Monday, the DOM WG wants to combine results of several test 
> harnesses (to show interoperability?).  The guts of the test harnesses can 
> be completely different, but as long as they all produce markup 
> someone/thing could combine results between them to get the overall 
> conformance picture.
> 
> Which is why they are currently "looking at developing a language-neutral 
> form of representing tests (including expected results for advanced 
> reports), documentation and other relevant details. We want this format to 
> be language-neutral to support porting to most existing languages."  [1]
> 
> To this  end, they have developed methods.dtd [2].
> 
> Will the "steep RDF learning curve" that Curt refers to [3] and Dimitris 
> agrees with [4] be a problem in adoption?  I think this is part of the 
> issue that William was raising from his work with the Device Independence 
> Working Group and why he wanted a low-level primer.
> 
> Therefore, the issue seems to be adoption of RDF over XML rather than EARL 
> in general.
> 
> Thoughts?  Am I off base?  I'm still trying to get my head around this.
> 
> Be well,
> --wendy
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test/
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/2001May/0067.html
> [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/2001May/0103.html
> [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/2001May/0106.html
> --
> wendy a chisholm
> world wide web consortium
> web accessibility initiative
> seattle, wa usa
> tel: +1 206.706.5263
> /--

Received on Wednesday, 30 May 2001 11:34:04 UTC