Fwd: Markup languages for test specification

This was sent to the WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools group by Wendy, I 
think it's useful info for QA record as well.

> I took an action at the F2F to chase up markup languages for test 
> specification. I had vaguely recalled hearing something that NIST was 
> working on. Today in my searches, I quickly stumbled on the DOM test suite 
> markup language that Dimitris and others spoke of at the ERT/PF F2F at the 
> tech plenary last February.
> 
> Here is a bit about it in the FAQ.
> http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test/Documents/DOMTSFAQ.html#usingXML
> 
> Here's a message from Dimitris from May
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/2001May/0067.html
> that includes a DTD
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/2001May/att-0067/01-methods.dtd
> 
> He attended an ERT call on 28 May 2001
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001May/0094.html
> 
> I didn't catch it before, but now I realize how the DOM TS ML and EARL 
> compliment each other.  Charles saw it when he said, "CMN Difference is 
> instead of generating "pass or fail" you are generating EARL." during the 
> 28 May telecon.
> 
> 
> A wider search brought up the following abstracts.
> TTCN-3 - A new Test Specification Language for Black-Box Testing of 
> Distributed Systems.
> http://www.itm.mu-luebeck.de/english/publications/Abstract_ttcn-3.html
> Towards the new Test Specification and Implementation Language 'TelCom TSL'
> http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~rvswww/Publikationen/Grabowski/GI-ITG-1995/abstract. 
> html
> And a paper: 
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers2/cs/16526/http:zSzzSzwww.itm.mu-lueb 
> eck.dezSzpublicationszSzttcn3zSzGrabowski.pdf/grabowski00ttcn.pdf
> 
> Test Specification DTD
> This DTD defines the format for test specifiers which define component 
> tests and can be executed by the Test Pattern Verifier.  It describes the 
> tests as well as the results.  The end-to-end process is to verify 
> components so that they may be certified and then made available through a 
> component server.
> http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/Research/SCL/Docs.html
> Part of the SCL Component Test Bed Specification 
> http://xml.coverpages.org/scl.html
> 
> Interesting tangent: IMS has a language to report results of student 
> assessments.  Another possible use case for EARL, although they are already 
> using their own XML dialect.
> http://www.imsproject.org/question/
> 
> "ADL, or the Assertion Definition Language, is a formal grammar for 
> describing the behavior of interfaces. This very general concept can be 
> applied to any interface for which the behavior can be described. The 
> purpose of this grammar is two-fold. First, it permits the translation of 
> the formal grammar into natural languages such as English and Japanese. 
> Second, it permits the automatic translation of the formal grammar into 
> tests that will evaluate the behavior of an implementation of the interface 
> being described. "
> http://adl.opengroup.org/
> 
> Found a variety of sites, books, etc. devoted to Web testing methods and 
> definitions.  Investigating these further.
> 
> --wendy
> --
> wendy a chisholm
> world wide web consortium
> web accessibility initiative
> seattle, wa usa
> /--

Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2001 05:00:00 UTC