Re: Conformance and Implementations

Thanks for the pointer, I obviously haven't done my homework.

Best,

/Dimitris

On Friday, October 19, 2001, at 01:14  AM, Lofton Henderson wrote:

> 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.
>

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