- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:15:27 +0100
- To: www-qa@w3.org
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 -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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