W3C QA - Two weeks on the QA mailing list
13 to 26 May 2002

About the "weekinqa" QA Mailing-list bi-weekly summary

   "WeekinQA" is a bi-weekly summary of the main topics discussed on
   [11]www-qa@w3.org, the public mailing-list of W3C [12]QA Interest
   Group..

   See the [13]calendar and [14]initial requirements for this ressource.

Topics for this period

QA Glossary

   A new version of the [15]QA glossary has been released during this
   period, and discussed on the list. Discussion focused on the
   definition of some terms (e.g "validation", "atomic test"...)

   See the threads : [[16]1] [[17]2] [[18]3] [[19]4] [[20]5]

Letters of conformance

   Following the new publication of the [21]QA framework, the issue of
   the letter codes used for the levels of conformance to this framework
   was raised.
   A, Q, C, the question remains open.

   See the thread : [[22]1]

Flavors of conformance considered harmful

   Following the first publication of the [23]Specification guidelines,
   part of the [24]QA framework, an issue was raised about the
   use/interest/danger of using different flavors of conformance, advised
   by the Spec. guideline #3.

   Different levels of conformance are believed to be harmful for
   interoperability (arg. 1), but may be unavoidable, or necessary
   (arg.2) for modular technologies/specifications. The issue is opened,
   see the thread for details.

   See the thread : [[25]1]
   See the [26]guideline 3 of the spec guideline draft, 07 May 2002.

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References

  11. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/
  12. http://www.w3.org/QA/IG
  13. http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/05/weekinqa-cal
  14. http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/02/aweekinqa
  15. http://www.w3.org/QA/glossary
  16. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002May/thread.html#47
  17. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002May/thread.html#55
  18. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002May/thread.html#56
  19. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002May/thread.html#59
  20. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002May/thread.html#64
  21. http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/#docs
  22. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002May/thread.html#48
  23. http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/
  24. http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/#docs
  25. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002May/thread.html#35
  26. http://w3.org/QA/WG/2002/framework-20020507/qaframe-spec#b2ab3d133