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Subject: RE: [tag-discuss] Re: a few questions to kick-off the discussion
Hi,
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Abbie
Subject: RE: [tag-discuss] Re: a few questions to kick-off the discussion
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> Talking about TA's writers, will the editor of a spec well also be
> responsible for inserting
> (and/or) editing the TA's?
IMO, ideally yes... now "responsible" may be interpreted in different
ways. Let us just say that the target readers for a test assertion guide
(TAG), would be the members of every tech committee that designs a
specification.
Some benefits in having spec writers also write TAs:
- having to think in terms of how features can be tested, or how
conformance should be verified, is beneficial to the spec design process
itself. Often, gaps in a spec are found only at implementation phase
(e.g. expected handling of error cases), and TAs have proved useful to
uncover such gaps in time, when done concurrently to spec.
---abbie
Yes indeed. This will help the development of better specs.
---abbie
- That is also where we establish a clear distinction between TA and
Test Case: the group designing a spec is not required (nor has the
expertise, or the resource ) to write a test suite for it. But just
handing a spec narrative over to a test team, is a recipe for
misunderstandings, slow progress and lots of interaction with a spec
guru who ends up bearing a big responsibility... TAs appear to be the
right interface between these teams.
-Jacques
---abbie
Yes agree.
---abbie
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