- From: Mark Skall <mark.skall@nist.gov>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:08:34 -0400
- To: Sandra Martinez <sandra.martinez@nist.gov>, Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Cc: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, www-qa@w3.org
To clarify, anything that checks for conformance to a standard, whether it's syntactic or semantic checking, is a test suite, in my opinion. The key is that it must check against requirements in the standard. Mark At 07:29 AM 5/31/02 -0400, Sandra Martinez wrote: >The HTML validator by it self, in our definition, will not be considered a >test suite but a validation tool that could be used as part of the test >procedures to check conformance to the standard (validation) , in that way >it will be considered encompassing in the test suite definition. This is >my understanding. > >Sandra > > > > > > At 04:33 PM 5/30/2002 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote: > >>At 01:37 PM 5/30/02 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote: >> >>>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... >> >>I thought -- correct me if this is wrong, Mark or Sandra -- that NIST >>used "test suite" in an encompassing way, that would include an HTML >>validator. However the Glossary definition of "test suite" doesn't seem >>to imply that. >> >>-Lofton. > >Sandra I. Martinez >National Institute of Standards and Technology >100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970, >Gaithersburg, Md. 20899 > >(301) 975-3579 >sandra.martinez@nist.gov > **************************************************************** Mark Skall Chief, Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970 Voice: 301-975-3262 Fax: 301-590-9174 Email: skall@nist.gov ****************************************************************
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