Re: Implementation report (Was: Re: Tests)

Hi Yves,

Yves Savourel wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> The implementation report look good to me. I have only one question. The second numbered bullet of the section "Test Suite" says:
> "for each input document a result document in the debug format which a conformant implementation needs to produce."
> 
> I'm wondering if this is correct: We do not specify any debug format in our conformance criteria, therefore a conformant does not
> *need* to produce this, I think. I realize that generating that output is quite helpful for testing the implementations, but here it
> sounds like a requirement.
> 
> I'm not sure how to phrase this, maybe something like "for each input document a result document in the debug format which a
> conformant implementation may find useful to produce", or "for each input document a result document in the debug format used to
> easily verify conformant implementations".

you are right, my first formulation was misleading. How about: "for each
input document a result document in the debug format. These result
documents will be used to test during the CR phase whether an
implementation is conformant".

Cheers,

Felix

> 
> Cheers,
> -yves
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Sasaki [mailto:fsasaki@w3.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:38 PM
> To: Yves Savourel
> Cc: public-i18n-its@w3.org
> Subject: Implementation report (Was: Re: Tests)
> 
> Hi Yves, all:
> 
> Many thanks for updating the page!
> 
> Yves Savourel wrote:
>> One more note on the tests:
>>
>> The structure is as follow:
>>
>> The 'inputdata' directory contains the source files, 'expected' 
>> contains the expected result files, and each 'testN' directory holds the result for the implementation N.
> 
> I like that idea.  I have updated the implementation report respectively, see
> http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/ImpReport.html .
> 
> Important is the sentence "The following features will be tested for all data categories:". The two bullet points take your proposal
> above into account.
> 
> Please have a look at the document and give me feedback. It would be good to get feedback until Monday night (Japanese time), since
> I will be on travel starting Tuesday, and we need to write the CR mail on Friday.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Felix
> 
>

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