Re: Thinking of contributing

Thanks Arthur, I will definitely look into the Web Application Security
group.

- Chris

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 1/9/15 1:40 PM, Chris Ducharme wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I am a recent CS grad in training to be a security consultant. It has
>> been suggested to me that contributing to Test the Web Forward would be a
>> good way to get a better understanding of browsers, HTML5, Javascript, the
>> DOM, etc. I've got the tests to run locally, and I've looked through the
>> documentation and at the tests themselves. I have a basic idea of how I
>> could proceed, in terms of creating tests, but being that I have no
>> experience with javascript or HTML5 (and not really any front-end web
>> experience at all), I'm not exactly sure where to start -- ie I don't know
>> what exactly needs testing (. If anyone could give me some guidance here, I
>> would greatly appreciate it.
>>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for the inquiry. It's great to see expressions of interest like
> this!
>
> If your interest is mostly related to Web security related specs, perhaps
> you should explicitly ask for guidance on the Web Application Security
> group's list <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/>
> (see also the group's spec status page <http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
> >).
>
> Another option is to chat with the good folks in the consortium's #testing
> IRC channel [IRC].
>
> (I think it is suboptimal the test suites at github/w3c/<spec-name>/ don't
> provide any status type information f.ex. "features untested", "features
> considered `well` tested", etc. However, I acknowledge such data can easily
> become outdated.)
>
> -Thanks, ArtB
>
> [IRC] <https://www.w3.org/wiki/IRC>
>
>