Re: draft How To Guide for Test Assertions

Hello Lynne,

At 13:50 1/03/2006, Lynne S. Rosenthal wrote:
<blockquote>
The QA IG will be working with members of OASIS to develop a How-to-Guide 
or Dummy's guide on Test Assertions.  This was discussed during the QAIG 
meeting at Tech Plenary on Monday, 27 February.  The work will conducted 
under both the W3C and OASIS banners (details on how to do this are being 
ironed out), lead by Lynne Rosenthal (NIST) and Jacques Durand (Fujitsu), 
and hopefully, with your help.  Please let us know if you would like to 
participate in this effort.  It should be fun, since it will be a practical 
guide, capturing experiences, and written in a light, readable, style.
(...)
</blockquote>

I am currently involved in a project (www.bentoweb.org) that is working on 
an XHTML + CSS test suite for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The 
"test suite" is not really a suite of tests in the usual sense, but a set 
of test files + metadata that is meant to be used to "benchmark" evaluation 
and repair tools ("ERT": http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools). How to 
write the description, purpose and other sections of the test metadata (we 
use most of the test metadata described at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-test-metadata-20050914/, and much more) was 
recently the subject of serious debate, which led us to rewrite the 
description and purpose of all our tests. In our test metadata, the "test 
assertion" is actually part of the purpose, and the position where a 
failure occurs (line & column number, XPath) is mentioned elsewhere.
I'm very interested in this 'How To Guide for Test Assertions'; maybe I 
will also be able to contribute to it.

Regards,

Christophe Strobbe


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