- From: Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:11:15 +0900
- To: Dzenana Trenutak <dzenana.trenutak@gmail.com>
- Cc: Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org>, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, b.lund@cablelabs.com, peter.linss@hp.com, rhauck@adobe.com, lmcliste@adobe.com, bs3131@att.com, yfuna@tomo-digi.co.jp, public-test-infra@w3.org
Hi Dzenana, > @2013-02-27 12:43 -0500: > Hi Tobie et al, > > I'd like to contribute this stab at a start-to-finish "how to" for new test > writers re: writing tests for the HTML testsuite, based on how I've gone > about it and the feedback to my pull requests: > > http://dzenana-trenutak.github.com/GitDocs/W3C_HTMLTestsuite_Tutorial/index.html Great work -- this looks really nice. > I just began submitting tests this winter myself, and as of only a few days > ago joined as an invited expert/member of the html testsuite task force to > boot, so if I've misunderstood anything about W3C's > processes/preferences/priorities, set me straight and I'm happy to make > corrections. > > Also, I just clued into the existence/relevance of the IDLHarness testing > mechanism, which is quite a missing link for this tutorial (and probably > for my previously submitted pull requests, too). So, I'll look into that > next. I can add to/revise these pages accordingly once I do so. Yeah, I think the tests https://github.com/w3c/html-testsuite/pull/21 and https://github.com/w3c/html-testsuite/pull/18 could be rewritten using IDLHarness. (Not saying that they must be, just that they could be.) > (If anyone can point me to some existing documentation about IDLharness, > please shout out! Thanks.) I don't know of any that exists yet. --Mike -- Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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