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Subject: Re: [tag] My AI - comments on splitting/repositioning of 'Prerequisites' content


I've yet to do this in the wiki - I'll probably leave changing
the TA Ids for the document 'hard copy' text version.

2008/9/15 Durand, Jacques R. <JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>:
> Stephen:
>
> I didn't mean to make this ID scheme a general "best practice" rule...
> But only for our own examples, for the reader to relate more easily Tas
> and requirements, for convenience.
>
> I thought we could have an editorial note like this:
>
> "In order for the reader to easily relate the examples of test
> assertions presented in the guideline, to the normative statements that
> they address, this guideline uses the following conventions:
> Whenever a test assertion is addressing a requirement of ID "xyz" in the
> "widget" specification, a TA addressing this requirement will have an ID
> of the form: widget-TAxyz-abc, where "abc" is an optional
> sub-identifier, e.g. in case several TAs address the same requirement."
>
> I think this can help in our guideline, as we jump back and forth to
> requirements in previous sections, showing TA variants, etc.
>
> I'll leave it to users to decide their own scheme... Maybe we could warn
> them to be aware that the relationship between requirements and Tas can
> be many-to-many.
>
> Jacques
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephengreenubl@gmail.com [mailto:stephengreenubl@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Green
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:00 PM
> To: TAG TC
> Subject: Re: [tag] My AI - comments on splitting/repositioning of
> 'Prerequisites' content
>
>> Shouldn't we try to have TA Ids more intuitively related to the
>> Requirement IDs they address?
>
> Jacques,
>
> I remember we originally had it down to write a short paragraph about
> using a scheme for making IDs. We dropped it because nobody could
> provide a clear enough reason to use a scheme. Maybe you have now
> provided something - that some might choose to use ID schemes to ensure
> both TA IDs and Normative Source IDs have a clear relationship because
> this helps in grouping for conformance clauses and the like.
>
> Steve
>
>>
>> For instance, if we have Requirement 101 (with part (a) and part (b)),
>
>> then we could decide that all Tas that address 101 should have an ID
>> of the form:
>> widget-TA101-xyz
>> Where we use xyz to distinguish which part of 101 is addressed, and
>> possibly different variants of the TA.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jacques
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stephengreenubl@gmail.com [mailto:stephengreenubl@gmail.com] On
>> Behalf Of Stephen Green
>> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 1:51 PM
>> To: TAG TC
>> Subject: [tag] My AI - comments on splitting/repositioning of
>> 'Prerequisites' content
>>
>> I've added my comments on splitting/repositioning of 'Prerequisites'
>> content:
>>
>> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/tag/TestAssertionGuidelines?action=diff&rev
>> 2=
>> 212&rev1=211
>>
>> I'm happy with the split and position of the content. I have
>> reservations about combining TA examples for spec req 100 example as
>> it goes against our illustration of granularity.
>> If this is the only way to keep the text clear though I'd accept it,
>> provided we make a comment to explain this (such as 'for clarity and
>> simplicity we will revert to handling the example specification
>> requirement 100 with a single test assertion example ...').
>>
>> --
>> Stephen D. Green
>>
>> Partner
>> SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk
>> Tel: +44 (0) 117 9541606
>> Associate Director
>> Document Engineering Services
>> http://www.documentengineeringservices.com
>>
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>
>
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>
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Stephen D. Green

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SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 117 9541606
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Document Engineering Services
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