Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Charter and Deliverables: the "Stateof Interoperability" assessment activity

[Radoslav Dejanović <radoslav.dejanovic@opsus.hr>]

robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:

> It would be a big waste of time, for example, if we blindly started 
> writing 100 test cases for text alignment, and only later found out that 
> all implementations did that feature perfectly, whereas table nesting was 
> an area that was the cause of many practical interop issues.

Your example is valid, but I think that we should keep in mind that
there should be test cases for everything, because even if all
applications of today do text alignment perfectly, tomorrow there could
be a new one that does not. We should not forget "easy" tests just
because there are more difficult ones. Of course, we can put them on the
bottom of the to-do list, but we should not forget them. If we're going
to test for conformance, we really should test everything (as only 100%
can be considered a full scale test), and not even the least important
test should be considered a waste of time and/or left out.

Given the invested efforts/return ratio, I agree with you that most
troublesome issues should be given priority.