Re: [tag] Groups - conference call (schedule A) modified

[Kevin Looney <Kevin.T.Looney@Sun.COM>]

Hi Patrick, and everyone

     I need to attend a PAC meeting today at the same time as our TAG 
call, so I won't be able to attend TAG.

I do have some comments on the latest draft (below).  

Thanks,
Kevin L
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General Comments on the latest draft 
(http://wiki.oasis-open.org/tag/TestAssertionGuidelines):

General Editorial:
       Many areas of the draft contain 'lists' or 'collections' of 
attributed being described.  These should be presented as such (either 
by straight html lists, or Wiki lists.   The document is hard to read 
without this, because it is unclear where these lists are bounded, and 
normative text continues.

Section 1.1 - Conformance Clause:
    This feels like a loose collection of attributes about CCs, and CCs 
relationships to TAs.  Can this be organized more coherently?

Section 1.3 - Coverage Analysis:
   Why is this section still in the draft?  My understanding was that 
this was meant to be removed, as it is peripheral to TAs.  Will this 
section be removed or moved to an Appendix?

Section 2.1 - What is in a Test Assertion:

The example describes 'Target: widget'.  Later, the description states 
one of the elements of the TA is a 'Target Class'.   I think the 
terminology is inconsistent here, and I am hesitant about using 'Class' 
in our terminology (terribly overused term).

Sections 2.2 - 2.4
     I get the impression from reading these sections that we are 
'jumping in' to examples of how to identify TAs from some 
specification.  The problem is that I haven't really seen a proper 
definition of what elements constitute a TA or how to identify these in 
a spec before this (not really presented until the Summary in Section 4).


I still need to study sections 3-4 more, but I thought these comments 
might be useful for now.

Thanks, Regards,
Kevin L




Patrick.Curran@Sun.COM wrote:
> conference call (schedule A) has been modified by Patrick Curran
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> Date:  Wednesday, 06 February 2008
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