- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:14:01 -0700
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
QAWG -- In case you've forgotten, here is some background and motivation for the 2/18 telecon topic (test materials for QAF GL documents)... At 02:13 PM 12/12/03 -0700, Lofton Henderson wrote: >Our review skeletons could be considered something of a rudimentary test >material. It's what we use ourselves to do reviews. But it doesn't break >down per conformance requirement (or per TA), only per checkpoint. The >individual requirements in ConfReqs are the testable statements. > >Also, like our checklists, it is more of a Test Results Reporting >mechanism than a testing mechanism. > >-Lofton. > >[1] http://www.w3.org/QA/Group/2003/11/qaframe-ops-20030922-skeleton >[2] http://www.w3.org/QA/Group/2003/11/qaframe-spec-20031110-skeleton > >At 12:57 PM 12/12/03 -0700, Lofton Henderson wrote: > >>Karl, >> >>[...] JC has cleverly spotted the hole in our act. As we discussed at >>Heraklion (and after), we have no test materials and apparently are not >>building them. >> >>Are you going to (continue to) deal with him? >> >>So ... what's our answer? Something like, "We're working on it."? Or >>"we're exempt" (and drop the AAA pledge from Charter)? Or ...? >> >>I should point out that I put sufficient formatting into the ConfReqs >>sections of (CR) OpsGL that I could generate a questionnaire (with >>per-confReq questions) via XSLT. Adding brief instructions, we would >>have a test material for OpsGL. >> >>-Lofton. >> >>>X-Original-To: www-qa@frink.w3.org >>>Delivered-To: www-qa@frink.w3.org >>>Delivered-To: www-qa@w3.org >>>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:19:33 +0000 >>>From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com> >>>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:0.9.4.1) >>>Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 >>>X-Accept-Language: en-gb >>>To: www-qa@w3.org >>>X-HPL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the helpdesk for more >>>information >>>X-HPL-MailScanner: Found to be clean >>>Subject: QA Op Guidelines test material >>>X-Archived-At: http://www.w3.org/mid/3FD9EA95.3080100@hplb.hpl.hp.com >>>Resent-From: www-qa@w3.org >>>X-Mailing-List: <www-qa@w3.org> archive/latest/1338 >>>X-Loop: www-qa@w3.org >>>Sender: www-qa-request@w3.org >>>Resent-Sender: www-qa-request@w3.org >>>List-Id: <www-qa.w3.org> >>>List-Help: <http://www.w3.org/Mail/> >>>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:www-qa-request@w3.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>>Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:20:19 -0500 (EST) >>>X-RCPT-TO: <lofton@rockynet.com> >>>X-SpamCatcher-Score: 1 >>>X-SpamCatcher-IP: 127.0.0.1 >>>X-SpamCatcher-1: e31209c1b6dc5bf79fdf3733b96c6439 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Hi >>> >>>I am looking at the QA Op Guidelines CR on behalf of webont >>> >>>http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-qaframe-ops-20030912/ >>> >>>I note that in the charter of the QA WG there is a commitment to the AAA >>>conformance, and noting guideline 3, >>>http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-qaframe-ops-20030912/guidelines-chapter#Gd-sync-spec-TM-devt >>>[[ >>>the Working Group MUST publish QA deliverables, including at least the test >>>materials to which the WG has committed, concurrently with each Working >>>Group specification publication milestone. >>>]] >>>and the charter description of deliverables including >>>[[ >>>Test materials in the form of questionnaires and/or interactive forms that >>>lead the tester through the guidelines document, asking about each >>>conformance requirement. >>>]] >>> >>>I was hoping to find the questionnaire(s) associated with the QA docs in >>>Candidate Rec, and an example of how to complete them (for example by the >>>QA group, vis-a-vis the QA Ops guidelines). >>> >>>Any pointers? >>> >>>Jeremy >> >
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