- From: Lynne Rosenthal <lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 11:45:45 -0400
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
- Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20040407114043.01e86918@mailserver.nist.gov>
Recently, Karl provided a list of documents for W3C Editors, which is also available at [1]. I have reviewed these documents and a few others to see what would apply to our documents. The following is my assessment of applicability and also some questions. Please let me know if you disagree or have additional thoughts. 1. Pubsrules [2]: Document versioning is tied to conformance, for example "if a technical report with no changes that affect conformance to a previous Rec, then the edition number is changed and no change to revision no". . Last year, Susan Leach asked us about this. --relevant to SpecLite probably under Quality Control. We probably should mention something, but not go into details 2. Tips for Getting to Rec Faster [3]. As part of its push to encourage technical quality, interoperability and consensus, it advocates, "develop test suites and other supporting materials in parallel with the Rec track document. Talk to people in the QA Activity about existing tools and test suite frameworks. --supports TestLite 3. How to Organize a Rec Track Transition [4]. Test suites are addressed as part of the request for CR and beyond for implementation information. "Are there test suites. What is the relation between test suite and conformance to the TR? Is QA situation generally clear and satisfactory? Do tests demonstrate/evaluate all features implemented? Links between the tests and features being tested? Are test suites planned? Coordination with QAWG? --relevant to TestLite 4. The essentials of a specification [5]. Lots of good stuff here. --relevant to SpecLite 5. Conformance [6]. Talks about specifying conformance as being like an equation. Also a section on Tests. Not very comprehensive. --relevant to Spec, TestLite 6. Architecture of the WWW [7]. Section on Extensions. Karl has addresses some of these in an email [8] and in the Wiki --relevant to SpecLite. -regards Lynne [1] http://www.w3.org/2003/Editors/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/02-pubrules.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2002/05/rec-tips [4] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/02-transitions.html [5] http://www.w3.org/1999/09/specification [6] http://www.w3.org/Guide/Conformance.html [7] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20031209/ [8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2004Mar/0034.html
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