Re: [tag-discuss] the role of an XML mark-up for TAs

["Abbie Barbir" <abbieb@nortel.com>]

Title: Re: [tag-discuss] the role of an XML mark-up for TAs

Hi,
See inline
Abbie

Subject: Re: [tag-discuss] the role of an XML mark-up for TAs

• From: Carmelo Montanez <carmelo@nist.gov>
• To: tag-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
• Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:10:29 -0500

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At 03:25 AM 11/22/2006, Dave Pawson wrote:
>On 21/11/06, david_marston@us.ibm.com <david_marston@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>I think that test case metadata cites the TAs. Test suite execution is
>>driven by test case metadata, so with TAs in there, you can make the
>>test harness exercise particular TAs.
>
>Which raises the pre-conditions again.
>If a test M is expected to be run after test L and prior to test N
>then such selection metadata must recognise this.


Agreed although test cases should be independent of one another
whenever possible or when interaction is part of the
test scenario.


---Abbie
Well agree in principle. But not all simple test cases can cover all the interactions. Definetly, we will need the ability of the pre-conditions.

---Abbie