Re: Re: About testable assertion

Hi Marcos,

> ------- Original Message -------
> Sender : Marcos Caceres<w3c@marcosc.com> 
> Date   : 2012-07-16 22:38 (GMT+09:00)
> Title  : Re: About testable assertion

> Hi Jungkee,  

> On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 14:12, 송정기 wrote:

>>  Hi all,
>>   
>>  Thanks everyone for good discussion in F2F last week.
>>   
>>  I have one question about testable assertions we discussed at the second day of the meeting.

> A specification's primary purpose is to list the "conformance requirements" (i.e., the MUSTs, SHOULDs, etc.). Each conformance requirement will then have a number of testable assertions. For example, given the following conformance requirement:

> "If the document is missing a foo, then user agent MUST add a bar at the end of the document."  

> You could create the following testable assertions:  
>  1. test to see if the bar is added to end of the document when foo is missing.  
>  2. test to see if the bar is not added when there is a foo.  
>  3. test to make sure that two bar are not added when one one bar already.  

> and so on… then each testable assertion becomes a real test in whatever you are testing.  

I got it. We use "conformance requirements" in spec writing and create relevant testable assertions and the matching test cases in the test suite.

Thanks for the clarification.

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Marcos Caceres
http://datadriven.com.au




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Jungkee Song
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Received on Tuesday, 17 July 2012 07:58:16 UTC