- From: Sandra Martinez <sandra.martinez@nist.gov>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:13:05 -0400
- To: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Cc: Mark Skall <mark.skall@nist.gov>, www-qa-wg@w3.org
The following are examples of test assertions developed for the XML Test
Suite. I basically developed these semantic requirements guided by the
statement that a semantic requirement should be a simple statement that
capture an expected normative behavior, as defined by the specification,
that also facilitates the generation of specific testcases and proper
mapping back to the assertion and the specification.
A document consisting of prolog followed by element then
miscelaneous items is
a well-formed document.
A well formed document must have one or more elements.
A processing instruction with only a processing
instruction target name
is a valid processing instruction.
The character data in the CDATA section is not markup data.
Cordially,
Sandra
At 12:46 PM 4/15/2002 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>Thanks for this, Mark...
>
>At 11:28 AM 4/12/02 -0400, Mark Skall wrote:
>>[...] I've provided some definitions for these terms. I couldn't find
>>any formal definitions cited elsewhere, but these are how we generally
>>use these terms at NIST. If anyone would like to modify these
>>definitions, please respond to the e-mail. If there are no suggested
>>modifications, Karl, please enter these into the glossary.
>>
>>Generally, test assertion, semantic requirement and test requirement are
>>used interchangeably.
>
>This is one point that interested me, because sometimes I suspect that
>they are being used for different things (e.g., one refers to an
>identifiable actual statement or statements in the specification, and
>another refers to a "testable assertion" that is synthesized from one or
>more statements in the spec).
>
>
>>Test Assertion
>>A set of premises that are known to be true by definition in the spec.
>
>I think it would be helpful if the definition were less terse. What does
>one actually look like (e.g., example)? How does a TA relate to actual
>identifiable content in a specification, etc.
>
>-Lofton.
Sandra I. Martinez
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Gaithersburg, Md. 20899
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