- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:44:02 -0600
- To: www-qa@w3.org
* TestTalk, A Test Description Language: Write Once, Test by Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere, with Anything (1999) http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/liu99testtalk.html different versions of the document Software tests are intellectual assets, too, and are as valuable as source code to a software project. Over the long term, maintainable software tests significantly lower a project's cost. It is very difficult, however, to write maintainable software tests, especially executable ones. Existing approaches - including natural language, tables or forms, test scripts, programming languages, and test description languages - all are problematic, as discussed in this paper. The article talks about TestTalk. TestTalk is a software test description language [1]. It is designed to describe software test cases and test oracles. The goal is to make software tests readable, portable, maintainable, yet executable. We hope that TestTalk can help overcome problems caused by writing software tests in programming languages [2]. This technical report contains the language specification, examples of TestTalk tests, and a few guidelines on TestTalk usage. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/330536.html http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cliu1/research/TestTalk/ * Testing http://www.donald-firesmith.com/Components/WorkUnits/Activities/ Testing/Testing.html A document describing testing -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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