Fw: [oiic-formation-discuss] Charter and Deliverables: the "State ofInteroperability" assessment activity

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Radoslav Dejanović <radoslav.dejanovic@opsus.hr> wrote on 08/10/2008 
05:00:33 PM:

> 
> 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.
> 

I agree 100%.

-Rob