- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:03:45 -0600
- To: Patrick.Curran@Sun.COM,www-qa-wg@w3.org
At 02:36 PM 8/31/2005 -0700, Patrick Curran wrote: >While finishing up the test case metadata document I find that I'm still >confused between Description and Purpose. I think we agreed that one would >be a "one liner" (suitable for inclusion in a table) while the other would >be longer. > >Lofton and I have different recollections of which was which. I propose >that Description be short and Purpose longer, but I'm open to other points >of view. > >Do people care? Would anyone like to make an argument for one rather than >the other approach? Mild preference, I like... Purpose: 1-liner, encapsulates what the test is basically about. Description: more detailed, possibly as much as several sentences or even paragraphs Reasons... 1.) to me, Description implies longer (arbitrarily long) treatment of details, and Purpose (...etc...) -- i.e., the meanings of the words seem to more naturally correspond with this view (but maybe that's just my bias). 2.) it's (approximately) how I wrote the WebCGM TS :) -Lofton.
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