Re: [sca-bindings] Re: [sca-policy] A New SCA Testing TC?

[Jim Marino <jim.marino@gmail.com>]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:42 AM, ashok malhotra wrote:

> Bob, you said ...
> > IMO it would be better to describe the language interface tests in  
> a language independent manner so that they could be > implemented in  
> whatever language as may arise in the future.
>
> This would be ideal but may not be possible in all cases.  But we  
> should try!  At the very least we should
> segregate the tests that test only the SCDL and its correct  
> processing into a separate, language-independent, section.
> As you probably realize, the bulk of the Policy tests fall into this  
> category.
>

FYI, I submitted the start of a proposal for doing this here:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/email/archives/200907/msg00001.html

The goal of the proposal is to make Assembly tests language agnostic  
in the sense that a vendors would be able to run the tests against a  
runtime that supports a non-sanctioned implementation language. This  
may be difficult in some situations but it appears if the overwhelming  
majority of conformance tests could be verified in a language  
independent manner.

What do you think?

As a suggestion, it may be best to separate this discussion into two  
threads: one dealing with the proposal of a separate TC; and one  
picking up on the previous thread about how the assembly tests should  
be structured.

Jim