ACTION-139 options for test suite design

Hi all,

I have started to work on a test suite format for ITS 2.0, based on the ITS
1.0 test suite. Please have a look at the attached test suite file. It
covers all tests for ITS 1.0. These are all automatic, that is expected
output and real output of a system easily can be compared. The test suite
format also allows for manual tests. In that case, the "assertion" element
is important to state the assertion.

Here is an example test:

       <test lastModified="2012-07-05" datacat="localizationnote"relatedTest
="locnote-global-note"
            conformanceType="global" id="t9" type="automatic" inputfiletype=
"xml"
            specreference="
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#locNote-global
">
            <assertion>Some description of what should happen in the test.
</assertion>
            <inputFile
                location="
http://www.w3.org/International/its/tests/inputdata/EX-locNote-element-1.xml
">
                <resultFile
                    location="
http://www.w3.org/International/its/tests/test1/EX-locNote-element-1-result.xml
"
                    implementation="impl1"/>
            </inputFile>
        </test>
I think the names speak for themselves. I hope that it will be easy to
transform this to the w3c test suite format we discussed today during the
call. Comments are very welcome.

Best,

Felix

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Felix Sasaki
DFKI / W3C Fellow