Re: Conformance and Implementations

At 10:27 PM 10/18/01 +0300, Dimitris Dimitriadis wrote:
>[...]
>The thing I would personally like to have discussed is this: What is the 
>W3C _official_ position on testing, interdependancy and conformance? Given 
>the fact, for example, that the DOM TS has not officially been used as an 
>experience tank for subsequent test suites (at least not to my knowledge), 
>thus not coordinating this with later efforts, should there perhaps be a 
>clause in the specs that indicates how test suite should be written in a 
>coordinated fashion? I'm afraid we may be missing the forest for the trees 
>by moving in too many directions at once eventually ending up with 
>incompatible testing frameworks.

This fits the goals of the QA activity, and some work on common framework 
will likely be prioritized as one of the early deliverables.  In Section 2 
of the QAWG charter,

http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/charter.html,

see the 2nd bullet and the 2nd-to-last bullet.

-Lofton.