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Subject: Compliance Tests
Hi Allen, I was asked by the message and notification subcommittee to draft this message to you concerning the action item from the TC, as it was referred to in the msg-sc mtg today, to design or consider what might be required for a "compliance" test suite for CAP. To make sure I understood what was meant by "compliance" I went to the TC page and looked under Action Items, and did not find a specific item of this name or effect. So I reviewed the minutes, and also did not find a reference. There was a discussion about the operational and/or "intent" tests that have already been done, but no specific mention of what is or was meant by designing or developing or discovering requirements for CAP "compliance" tests. One of the reasons why I volunteered to take on the task of writing this message is that I have some familiarity with a conformance test suite that has been devised by the Web Services for Remote Portlets TC. So I, at least, know something, as little as it is, about this particular topic. No one was able to really narrow down what was expected for this test suite. I mentioned that WSRP tested "MUST" assertions In the WSRP TC a test suite that has been developed by IBM based on the work of the Conformance Subcommittee, which is its own entity, rather than a part of another subcommittee. That's about the extent of what I know, outside of some of the ins and outs of what is tested for. However, as far as I can tell all it tests for is if an application conforms to the spec. It does not "certify" that an application is compliant or conformant. So, insofar as testing at all is concerned, it is not intended to be cited for public purposes, at least as far as I know. My sense of the consensus of the Messages and Notifications SC is that we do not have enough of an idea of what is needed or wanted in a compliance test suite. So, we suggest that asking Karl might be the wisest course of action for a number of reasons. Not least of these reasons is that there may well be OASIS-wide policy that bears on the issue or liability concerns over the notion that a TC might offer formal or informal testing, and what purposes such testing would serve. So that is what the Messages and Notifications Subcommittee requests: Formal guidance from the TC and OASIS on what is needed or requested in a suite of tests for compliance with CAP. What should be tested, and to what degree. Thanks, Rex Brooks -- Rex Brooks GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com Email: rexb@starbourne.com Tel: 510-849-2309 Fax: By Request
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