Re: test writing guidelines regarding use of red

Hi Cam,

 I like your suggestion.

 There was some talk about removing red in test successes
which has been done for the 1.1F2 tests. Someone (Chris?) complained
about blank tests being passes. I don't like the idea of blank
for success at all - may be easy for bitmap comparison but
very human unfriendly.

 So +1 for the 3 bullets below.

Alex

--Original Message--:
>Hi.
>
>I’m reviewing some of the Microsoft test submissions.  Take
>styling-pres-05-f as an example.  The test is good in that red is used
>to indicate test failure, but when the test succeeds the shapes (that
>would otherwise be red if the test failed) are set to fill:none.  The
>resulting test slide if the test passes is blank apart from the CVS
>revision.  Do we have test writing guidelines written down somewhere?
>I’m thinking we should be following rules like:
>
>  * If any red is showing, the test failed.
>  * If any green is showing and no red is showing, the test passed.
>  * Otherwise, you need to read the pass criteria.
>
>-- 
>Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 03:45:16 UTC