- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 17:08:17 -0700
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: www-qa-wg@w3.org, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, sandro@w3.org
One quick clarification (other comments may follow later)... At 10:39 PM 1/3/2004 +0100, Jeremy Carroll wrote: >Hi Brian > >concerning: > >Jeremy: > > > > > > In as much as the Test Guidelines and the QAF prohibit > > > and/or obstruct this > > > behaviour > >Brian: > > Raised eyebrows! This document is restrictive? It is saying that a WG > > is not allowed to do something, rather than advising on good practice? > > From > >http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-qaframe-test-20030516/#scope >[[ >The scope of this specification is [...snip...] >]] This last-published WD is now badly out of date. It does not incorporate the results of two f2f meetings and some telecons. The QAWG's current thinking is reflected in the editors draft (linked from the Table of Seven [1] on QAWG home page): http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2003/10/TestGL-20031020.html Unfortunately, the prose in the intro sections is not fleshed out in this editors draft. However, notice in "Concepts" how some types of tests/test suites are enumerated. The QAWG has decided that the applicability of the guidelines and checkpoints for TestGL 1.0 will be limited to: conformance test suites. "Concepts" will discuss other sorts of test suites, and methodologies and uses for test cases. I don't think OWL pretends to have a conformance test suite. It was partly in response to your earlier comments that we made these refinements and restrictions on applicability. We have no intention to "prohibit and/or obstruct" what you are doing. In my view, what you are doing is outside of the scope of the normative content of TestGL 1.0. (This is my view, and I'd invite other QAWG participants to comment.) Regards, -Lofton. P.S. We are pushing to publish again soon, but that effort has been diluted in the last few months by the effort around moving other parts of QAF to CR. Your message indicates that we should prioritize publishing an updated WD. [1] http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/#docs
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