- From: Lynne Rosenthal <lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov>
- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:37:24 -0500
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
Assignment: 4.2A Need for the option Change 4.2 Good Practice A to Make sure there is a need for the optional feature What does this mean? Add as the 2nd to last sentence. Don't make something an option just because the Working Group can't decide on what to do or can't reach consensus Why care? No change Techniques (replace what is there with the following) * Make a list of use cases with the optional feature. * Look at the optional feature and each class of product. Is it something that this class of product would implement? Consider if it really is an option - perhaps, for this class of product it isn’t really an option but should be mandatory. * Develop an analyzer or set of tests to determine if options are needed. Use the analyzer/tests to capture what implementations are doing – are they doing basically the same thing or is there variety and is that variety desired.
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