Naming Conventions

Hi Christophe, all,

while I am on the process of developing new test cases for BenToWeb I 
came across an issue we have discussed in August [1] :
<quote>
hmm.. It seems that my interpretation in wrong...  Well, I actually 
remember during developing tests I had to develop more tests as I could 
not state somewhere that "I assume this has been tested". So I would 
prefer to have an element to include the prereq tests.
</quote>

Now, I have faced that problem again and I have a clearer picture, so I 
will try to describe it:
For instance, I am working on sc 2.4.8. One of the techniques / tests I 
should provide concerns <map> with or with no alt attribute. But for 
instance, such a test file (html) has already been developed by 1.1.1. 
Following bentoweb conventions (described in [2] under Naming 
Conventions) I should create new xhtml files with file names sc2.4.8_xx 
and probably copy and paste 1.1.1 html test file (??).

So, I think we should provide a mechanism to reuse test files (html 
etc). I think that this requirement is addressed by WCAG by the 
techniques document under "This technique is referenced from:" [3]. So 
IMO we should use something like WCAG Techniques file name (test files - 
no tcdl files) conventions, thus independent of success criteria (i.e. 
h1.html etc... ). (same would apply for media files etc)

[1]: 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert-tsdtf/2006Aug/0024.html
[2]: 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert-tsdtf/2006Sep/att-0019/BenToWeb_TCDL_W3C_Submission_DraftF.html
[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H24

Received on Friday, 22 September 2006 08:08:01 UTC