Re: Action Item: Testable Statement class

Hi,

IMO, every assertion *must* have an earl:Requirement (maybe even exactly one requirement per assertion?). For example WCAG 1.0 CP 1.1 or whatever.

It seems that earl:TestCase must be optional because it may not even be disclosed in certain situations. There may also be multiple test cases that are run in order to come to a result for an assertion. The test cases can point to each other using the dc:hasPart and dc:isPartOf which should be sufficient for now without creating a test description language.

The questions now are:
* does everyone agree that we need these two separate classes?
* should these classes be subclasses of earl:Testable or not?
* are the definitions of these two classes sound and clear?
* what kind of cardinality restrictions do we want for them?


Regards,
  Shadi


Carlos Iglesias wrote:
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: public-wai-ert-request@w3.org en nombre de Charles McCathieNevile
> Enviado el: Mar 25/07/2006 08:24 p.m.
> Para: Shadi Abou-Zahra
> CC: ERT group
> Asunto: Re: Action Item: Testable Statement class
> 
>>> We urgently need this class in order to finalize the schema. If I recall  
>>> correctly, you had proposed to write up and RDF Schema for a generic  
>>> class to describe "testable statement" (aka "a thing you can pass or  
>>> fail"), which then has "test requirement" and "test case" as  
>>> sub-classes. By when could you complete this?
> 
>> I still think this is a bad idea, since I don't see the value in having  
>> the two kinds of subClass. If we adopt this, the range of earl:requirement  
>> needs to be made earl:Testable too. (Since we are shifting the range to a  
>> superclass, I think we can get away with that.
> 
> I agree it's a bad idea, but as far as I remember it was introduced to allow test procedures where there are no specific test cases, which IMO is a bad practice and we shouldn't model the language according to bad practices.
> 
> Anyway, as I said at the last F2F I can live with that, but I'd prefer the model where you have Requirements and Test Cases for them, and the only testable thing is the Test Case.
> 
> Regards,
> CI.
> 

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