Proc&Ops Idea

QA Working Group --

I'd like your thoughts about this idea.

Borrowing again from WAI, I wrote a transformation to generate a 
"checklist" from the Process & Operational Guidelines (P&O).  See 
[1].  This was a quick prototype, so please excuse its plainness (crudeness?).

Two things occur to me.  Firstly, this ought to be a regular feature of the 
"XXX Guidelines" parts of Framework.  Secondly, we ought to apply this 
checklist to the test activities of a few of the WGs.  I think this would 
have several benefits:

1.)  It will help us refine and debug P&O Guidelines (and the other pending 
guidelines parts as well).

2.)  It might facilitate us getting feedback on the various Framework "XXX 
Guidelines" parts (only P&O for now) from the WGs.

3.)  The results of the exercise might actually be useful to the WGs (for 
us to do the exercise of filling out a checklist).

Thoughts?

If there is interest in the idea, then we should discuss how to do it and 
when.  Maybe various QAWG members could each take a WG-TS that they are 
familiar with (or not), and execute the checklist for that WG?  About 
timing ... are we too close to Cannes to make significant progress by then 
(e.g., for feedback to the WGs)?  Would it be better, from an archival and 
WG/IG discussion perspective, to do the exercise and then communicate with 
the WG over email?

-Lofton.

[1] http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2002/framework-20020201/ProcOps-Checklist.html

Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2002 20:30:46 UTC