Test Guidelines draft from Alex Rousskov on 2002-07-30 (www-qa@w3.org from July 2002)

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:39:06 -0600 (MDT)
To: www-qa@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207301109300.31720-100000@measurement-factory.com>

Hi there,

	The current "Test Guidelines" draft[1] seems to mix ideas
covering very distinct and quite independent areas:

	a) what a good test suite should be
	b) how to make a good test suite

The guidelines in the (b) category are often subjective and attempt to
limit developer options unnecessary. I would suggest moving them to a
separate informational document if not completely eliminating them.
IMO, QA WG should focus on (a).

It may be useful to look at Open Group test suite acceptance
criteria[2] as an example of a document that concentrates on (a).

Thank you,

Alex.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Jul/0001.html
[2] http://www.opengroup.org/testing/testprocs/accprocs.html

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