Fw: Activity Streams 2.0 Test Suite

Forwarding for Adam. For some reason his mail doesn't go through when he sends to the list. Weird.

Ann Bassetti
From: Boyet, Adam C
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 7:02 PM
To: Bassetti, Ann
Subject: Fw: Activity Streams 2.0 Test Suite



Original Message
From: Boyet, Adam C <adam.c.boyet@boeing.com>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:40 PM
To: Harry Halpin; James M Snell
Cc: public-socialweb@w3.org
Subject: RE: Activity Streams 2.0 Test Suite


We have two varying implementations in work at the moment. One we've implementing on our own and then one testing out the Java reference implementation James wrote.

Thanks,
Adam

Associate Technical Fellow
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-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Halpin [mailto:hhalpin@w3.org]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 2:04 PM
To: James M Snell
Cc: public-socialweb@w3.org
Subject: Re: Activity Streams 2.0 Test Suite



On 03/16/2015 06:28 PM, James M Snell wrote:
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> We don't need to have the test suite completed until then. But getting
> something started would be good. There is already at least one
> implementation of the data format available.

Again, if someone wants to volunteer to do it, that would be grand. To be clear, W3C typically doesn't put staff resources to this unless the Working Group is unable to make their own validator until CR and the spec is stable. I do agree with James though that early start with the unstable spec would be grand.

Hopefully we'll see implementation number 2 done over IndieWeb camp in Cambrige this week!


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> - James Snell
> jasnell@us.ibm.com
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>
>
> From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>
> To: public-socialweb@w3.org
> Date: 03/16/2015 09:51 AM
> Subject: Re: Activity Streams 2.0 Test Suite
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>
>
>
> On 03/16/2015 05:24 PM, James M Snell wrote:
>> All, one of the items we're going to need to move forward on Activity
>> Streams 2.0 completion is a Test Suite. Unfortunately I do not have
>> the free cycles at the moment to work on it myself. We need someone
>> to step up and volunteer to begin working on this item. What I
>> imagine, at this point, is that the test will essentially amount to a
>> validator
>> -- validating that the output generated by an implementation is
>> correct and validating that the implementation can properly roundtrip
>> correct input or fail appropriately on incorrect input.
>
> Note we don't need to work on a test-suite till we exit Candidate
> Recommendation, which I don't believe we're near yet :) So while we
> can discuss what would like in such a test-suite, it seems a bit
> premature unless someone has the time to code up a validator real quick.
>
> See here:
> http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/#implementation-experience
>
> Focus show now be probably on implementing AS 2.0 and seeing if any
> products and users want/need various features.
>
> cheers,
> harry
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>
>>
>> - James
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