Re: The bad side of test cases

>
>The last phrase surprises me. Incompliant implementations may be
>interoperable. Most test suites are designed to test whether an
>implementation is compliant with some spec, not interoperable with
>another implementation.
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Yes.  Non-compliant implementations may be interoperable.  However, without 
determining compliance first, the implementations may be interoperating 
with incorrect results.  Thus, we advocate that compliance be determined 
before interoperability.

Mark



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Mark Skall
Chief, Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division
Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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Received on Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:43:55 UTC