After Life for QA WG - Some Projects to work on

QA WG,

this is a proposal of things that could be done after the QA WG has  
closed. All these ideas are open to discussions, comments and  
concrete proposals. As a side note, all of these will work only if  
people are inclined to work on them. It might be worthwhile to  
discuss them, but it's even better if you think you can commit time  
for it, to evaluate this time. It doesn't have to be a  lot of time.
     Sometimes 30 minutes by week could be as valuable
     for a project than 1 day every two months.

You can propose also other projects.


Project I:  Test Markup Language

     The start of a vocabulary is available on the wiki.
        http://esw.w3.org/topic/TestCaseMetadata

These words have a short definition
     - identification
     - name
     - purpose
     - description
     - status
     - versioning
     - link to spec(s)
     - link to issue(s)
     - dependencies
     - grouping
     - variability-driven filtering criteria
     - input (or pre/post conditions?)
     - expected result


     First part of the work, for each word of this vocabulary.
         Time/Resource: 2 days for 2 persons

     - is it required or not,
     - any syntax requirements,
     - description of it,
     - any dependencies, and
     - example.

     Need to develop an outline of the type of information needed
     for each item. For now, just try to expand on a few items
     and then when we see what we get and need, we can make
     it more formalized. For each item, think about what is
     needed to describe it.

This will set a kind of requirements document or model for a Test  
Markup Language.

     Second phase:
     Creating the specification for a language. This is not feasible  
if not a lot of people participating.


* Specification Reviews against QA Framework Specification Guidelines.

     The specifications can be announced on the www-qa ML and people  
could review  them. Depending of the specifications it can be more or  
less long to do. The benefits of such work,
     - we improve specifications quality,
     - you improve your technological skills.


* QA Spec Conformance Clause Template
     http://www.w3.org/QA/2004/08/SpecGL-template-root.html
     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2005Jul/ 
thread.html#20
     Time/Resource: 3 days for 1 person

     Finalize the QA Conformance Clause Template for QA Specl GL


* QA Spec Conformance Clause Form
     http://www.w3.org/QA/2004/08/SpecGL-template-root.html
     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2005Jul/ 
thread.html#20
     Time/Resource: 3 days for 1 person

     Make a form to ease the editing.

* QA Process Document Template
     http://www.w3.org/QA/2004/08/QAH-qapd-root.html
     Time/Resource: 3 days for 1 person

     Finish the templates

* QA Process Document Form
     http://www.w3.org/QA/2004/08/QAH-qapd-root.html
     Time/Resource: 3 days for 1 person

     Make a form to ease the editing.


* QA Charter
     http://www.w3.org/QA/2004/08/QAH-charter.html
     Time/Resource: 3 days for 1 person

     Create a template to help Staff contacts to take QA into account  
in charter writing.



* How to define elements in Markup Language
     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2005Jul/thread.html#6
     Time/Ressource: 1 week for 2 persons
     Initiator: Bjoern Hoehrmann

     Elements are defined in many ways in specifications. Could we  
create a best practices guides on how to define elements (features)  
in a specification and then propose the markup for it.


* QA Primer
     http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/qaframe-primer
     Time/Resource: 3 days for 1 person

     Rewriting and reorganization a bit of the QA Primer to make it  
more appealing to editors.


* XMLSpec Analysis with regards to QA Framework
     http://www.w3.org/2002/xmlspec/
     Time/Resource: 2 weeks for 2 persons

     XMLSpec is a tool/vocabulary to write W3C specifications. The  
goal of the work is to analyze how the vocabulary can be modified, or  
which vocabulary to add that it makes easier to implement QA  
Framework Specification Guidelines.


* XMLSpec Tutorial
     http://www.w3.org/2002/xmlspec/
     Time/Resource: 3 weeks for 2 persons

     Writing a guide to use XMLSpec


* XMLSpec <-> XHTML tools
     http://www.w3.org/2002/xmlspec/
     Time/Resource: 3 weeks for 2 persons

     Create tools to be able to edit with XHTML and classes and to  
convert it with XMLSpec.




-- 
Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
W3C Conformance Manager
*** Be Strict To Be Cool ***

Received on Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:30:38 UTC