Re: [tag] Groups - TA Anatomy V0.4 (AnatomyTA-v04.doc) uploaded

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

On 21/09/2007, stephen.green@systml.co.uk <stephen.green@systml.co.uk> wrote:
> So there is no pass or fail of the TA I gather
> but isn't it written as if there is? That confuses me a bit
> (it needs careful wording which I haven't attempted to figure out).
>
> The TA isn't the test case so it doesn't evaluate to anything.
> It just gives information to the test case about how it ought
> to be evaluated to fulfil spec requirements, say (or on the
> test based on the test case based on the TA).
>
> Yet we have determined the beginning of rules to say something like
> that a postcondition or precondition which evaluates to false means the test
> should evaluate to 'not applicable'.


How can  test execution be based on a post condition?

The post condition is established when the test has run,
hence cannot be used by the test, since by definition it
has not completed if it is evaluating a post condition?

regards





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