Re: Test case metadata: Purpose and Description

My recollection was -
Purpose - short 1 liner
Description - longer, included more info and could include some rationale, 
some environmental stuff, etc.  I think David described some of these.

lynne

At 04:03 PM 8/31/2005 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:

>At 02:36 PM 8/31/2005 -0700, Patrick Curran wrote:
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>>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?
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>Mild preference, I like...
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>Purpose:  1-liner, encapsulates what the test is basically about.
>Description:  more detailed, possibly as much as several sentences or even 
>paragraphs
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>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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