- From: Lynne Rosenthal <lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:54:43 -0400
- To: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>, Patrick.Curran@Sun.COM, www-qa-wg@w3.org
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: > >>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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