- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:59:46 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
- To: "Shane P. McCarron" <shane@aptest.com>
- cc: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, www-html-testsuite@w3.org
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Shane P. McCarron wrote: > > As assertion is a active voice, present tense, minimal boolean statement > that evaluates to true when an implementation adheres to the behavior > specified. An example might be "The implementation shall accept > documents that have neither a BODY start nor a BODY end tag." This is > an HTML 3.2 assertion. A similar term is "testable statement". Not all assertions are testable. An example of an untestable assertion is "Conforming user agents must correctly map to ISO 10646 all characters in any character encodings that they recognize (or they must behave as if they did)." (HTML4:5.2.1) For writing a test suite, the important statements are the testable statements. -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Netscape, Standards Compliance QA /. `- ' ( `--' +1 650 937 6593 `- , ) - > ) \ irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________ (.' \) (.' -' __________
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