- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:44:42 +0900
- To: www-qa@w3.org
Le 05-12-21 à 02:22, Dominique Hazael-Massieux a écrit : > Is there a logical contradiction behind the idea of a normative > requirement that would not be testable? I don't think there is, but > would be interested to hear what others think about it. Could you give a practical example of what you would consider as a non-testable normative requirement? Often when I had to deal with this it's because we don't test the right thing. My favourite example for that is coming from nuclear physics. You can't test the position of a particle, but you can test the probability of its position. The first one is non-testable by virtue of the physics law (normative requirement) but it doesn't mean you can't achieve a test which verifies the law. There's a probability that this particle is here or not. Does the test verify this probability? -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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