Re: [cgmo-webcgm] Test suite

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

Hi Benoit,

I suggest we discuss on telecon...

I think your proposed way forward sounds promising.  It is also our only 
proposal, which gives it front-runner status.  The 8-10 per person load 
seems low enough that it might actually get done.

It would be interesting to make a handful of examples available (could you 
point to some for telecon discussion purposes?).  If possible, a template 
and/or how-to document would both encourage uniformity of contributions, 
and lower the hurdle of getting started (for those who haven't been doing 
it all along, as viewer developers).

There are lots of other peripheral issues, such as how to organize, 
package, verify contributions, etc.  But these could be handled along the 
way, as we start to get some contributions.

-Lofton.

At 09:51 AM 1/7/2005 -0500, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>   I'm are wondering when members of the working group would be in a
>   position to develop tests for the test suite? There's approximately
>   65 methods and attributes in our current DOM. 65 * 5 node types give
>   us around 325 different tests to verify.  Now that doesn't mean 325
>   test files, a test file can look for more than one thing.
>
>   We need to share the work.  Everyone can participate in this task,
>   even the folks who don't have a viewer.  On the group we have:
>   Benoit, Dieter, Lofton, Kevin, Dave, Stuart, Ulrich, Forrest,
>   Andrew, Don, Franck; so 11 participants in total.  That would
>   mean around 30 checks/tests to perform per person, which might
>   result in approx 8-10 test files per person.
>
>   How does that sound?  If people like the idea, I can divide the
>   methods and attributes into sections (everyone will get one section).
>
>   Thoughts?
>
>--
>  Benoit                 mailto:benoit@itedo.com