Fwd: [widgets] Widgets test creation event

Work has started on testing signatures for Widget Signature, a   
specification that relies XML Signature 1.1:

> The second day featured an in depth look at testing Widgets 1.0:
> Digital Signatures http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig/ and work has
> begun on a test plan.
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-digsig/tests/
>
> Signed widget tests will be generated from a set of scripted available
> here: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-digsig/tests/tools/

Is there any WG member that can volunteer to review this?

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch, Nokia
Chair XML Security WG



Begin forwarded message:

> From: ext Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
> Date: September 25, 2009 11:27:02 AM EDT
> To: "marcosc@opera.com" <marcosc@opera.com>
> Cc: public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: [widgets] Widgets test creation event
>
> On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:42 , Marcos Caceres wrote:
>> I'm wondering if we can get a quick summary of what happened during
>> the testing workshop. I assume a short report will be created?
>
> Kai posted this to MWTS, here it is for WebApps:
>
> """
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/3947857456/
>
> Last Monday about 9 people met from as far away as India to complete
> the test suite for Widgets P&C 1.0 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
>
> By the end of the first day of the three day event, we surprisingly
> achieved 100% coverage of all UA product widget tests. We begun with
> only about a third of them.
>
> The next two days we concentrated on reviewing, checking in the tests
> from http://git.webvm.net/?p=wgtqa into CVS (quite painful) and adding
> more tests to covered test assertions.
>
> The second day featured an in depth look at testing Widgets 1.0:
> Digital Signatures http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig/ and work has
> begun on a test plan.
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-digsig/tests/
>
> Signed widget tests will be generated from a set of scripted available
> here: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-digsig/tests/tools/
>
> In summary the P&C coverage meeting goals have been met and we all
> agreed that the event was a productive one.
>
> I would like to especially thank Dominique Hazael-Massieux's
> organisational skills and Christian Breitschwerdt for hosting the
> event at the Vodafone offices.
> """
>
> Additionally we found some issues in the specification that were
> reported. Some smaller ones should be documented in the test suite
> (they are mostly about redundant normative assertions, and things that
> can't really be tested easily such as those involving features, or
> things that may change between when the implementation has finished
> reading the config.xml document and when the start document is
> processed, such as width and height).
>
>> Apart from P&C, which other specs were tested?
>
> We started work on DigSig. We looked at how to test TWI (fka A+E), and
> discussed testing WARP.
>
>> Is test-suite-problems.txt [1] up to date and what is the purpose of
>> that file? Are those things that I need to fix or were they fixed
>> already?
>
> It was up to date last I checked it in. This is where we documented
> all the issues we found when we reviewed the tests that had been
> submitted. Those that remain are either 1) tests that haven't been
> checked in yet (some were missing from you at some point, not sure if
> you added them all; and Kai still had some leftover tests from
> webvm.net to move over); 2) buggy, or hard to test things.
>
>> When will the tests from wgt.webvm.net be moved over to the W3C?
>
> I believe most have been, but some are left.
>
> -- 
> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
>
>
>
>

Received on Friday, 25 September 2009 16:25:32 UTC