Re: [ebxml-iic-msg] A (rough) draft of the Test Framework

[Matthew MacKenzie <matt@xmlglobal.com>]

Jacques,

This looks quite good, but i am a bit disturbed at how the AT-Driver thing creeped back in, and what is this "WT-Driver".  My understanding was that we were going to work with the following two concepts:

- TestDriver
- TestService

-Matt
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Jacques Durand wrote:

> All:
>  
> here is an initial draft of the ebXML Test Framework, for review.
> Clearly, this is just asnapshot of a work still in progress.
> (still very incomplete, needs editing in many place).
> But this is to get early feedback, for finding out major problems or issues as soon as possible.
>  
> I can serve as ultimate editor for this document, unless someone wants to.
> But I'd prefer CTTF and ITTF folks to focus on their MS Test Suite docs (separate from this one)...
> (from which this doc will borrow anyway, especially in the "Test Case Representation" section)
>  
> - As I mentioned before, this document is ONLY intended - a priori - for describing
> a test Framework (architecture, components, functions, interfaces, mark-up for test cases / test suites, schemas).
> It does NOT describe the actual test Suites for MS Conformance and Interoperability: these will be
> defined in a separate document(s), though they will assume to run and be expressed with the Test Framework material.
>  
> - Somehow the draft is still (mostly) focused on MS testing, but the ambition of the Framework, as it evolves, is
> to be a basis for testing other ebXML specs.
>  
> - Note the renaming / modification of Service/Actions, based on some recent discussions. To be improved...
>  
> - Please look at the example sequence of Test Steps given in section 3.5 (Executing Test Cases). It is critical to
> agree soon enough about what test steps are, can do, what is the general protocol we may follow
> from one test case to the other, etc.
>  
> Note: The minutes of the last week meeting(s) are still in the work: a bit of time shortage right now...
>  
> Regards,
>  
> jacques
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