Re: Glossary

• From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
• Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:37:33 -0600 (MDT)
• To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
• cc: www-qa@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205301331520.31432-100000@measurement-factory.com>

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Karl Dubost wrote:

> At 22:20 -0400 2002-05-23, Mark Skall wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure where the "validation" definition came from. Tying 
> >validation to a document is way too restrictive.   The definition we 
> >usually use is "the process necessary to perform conformance testing 
> >in accordance with a prescribed procedure and an official test 
> >suite."
> 
> In a case of the HTML validator you don't have a Test Suite.

"HTML validator" is, essentially, a "Test Suite", isn't it? I know
that the current definition does not imply that but it should be
possible to have a single term that describes all validators,
including test suites. "Validator"? It should not matter, for the
purpose of the glossary, whether we are validating compliance with a
protocol, a markup language, or whatever...

Alex.

Received on Thursday, 30 May 2002 15:38:14 UTC