- From: Tim Boland <frederick.boland@nist.gov>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:28:04 -0400
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
To start with a discussion on "identification" [1] (re: test case description item), for a "syntax requirement", the CSS2.1 Test Case Authoring Guidelines [2] describes a proposed format (for filenames) that I think would identify a test case for a particular computer program (and be parseable by such a program). Is there sufficient information contained in this format to "uniquely" identify a test case, among all possible test cases for all technologies? What is the "scope" of identification for our purposes? "Description" is also listed as metadata in [1], but for "purpose" for our use of "description" do we mean test case management, or some other "purpose" in addition? What will the uses be for our test case description? What sort of "queries" will be performed against such a Test Case Description Schema? I think that "identification" metadata should certainly be REQUIRED? and there may be possible "dependencies" (although I'm not completely sure how we mean the term in this context) with (at least) "name", "purpose", "versioning"and "link to spec(s)" metadata. NOTE: "dependencies" is also listed as metadata in [1], but in a different context? "Examples" of the previously-mentioned format are listed in the CSS2.1 Test Case directory [3]. [1]: http://esw.w3.org/topic/TestCaseMetadata [2]: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/guidelines.html#filenames [3]: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/current/
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