HOMEWORK: Getting-Started Questions from Expert Talk #1

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

In e-mail discussions with David Marston, our first Expert Talk guest, David
reminded us that there are a number of getting-started questions that it is
important for us to address so there is context for going deeper into topics
such as scenarios and metadata.

These look like the questions that we need to be asking ourselves and
answering to have a common foundation:  


1.	What Class(es) of Product are to be tested? 
2.	How to deal with profiles, SHOULD statements, optionality, etc. 
3.	Will we write Test Assertions? 
4.	How will we take contributions? 
5.	What is the policy on approvals and challenges? 
6.	Will there be a mix of manual and automatable test cases?

There are probably others, but these seem like a good start.

PROPOSAL: We take the discussion and agreement (or at least arriving at new
questions) of these start-up topics as homework before Expert Talk #2, some
time in January.  I will add this as an Action Item for all of us (we can
decide at the next call if we want to keep it) just so there is some place
to manage our attention.

RESOURCES:

David provided his slide set in a contribution to oic-comment:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic-comment/200812/msg00002.html

Bart Hanssens has uploaded the set to our document store:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=30303&wg_abbre
v=oic
is the public page for downloading the presentation (here named
TestingThoughts1.zip).

Extract all of the pages into a single file-system directory. The
presentation starts at Overview.html.  The set should be viewable in any
contemporary web browser.

 - Dennis