Re: [tag] Action Item AI-Jan-7-09-0001

[Stephen Green <stephen.green@documentengineeringservices.com>]

Jacques,

I'm not sure. The wiki text is out of date and this text is already different
in draft 0.9.9.8 which doesn't concentrate on fig 1. Does the 0.9.9.8 text
still need replacing like this?

Secondly, we did decide earlier against this amount of text to contrast
TA with Conformance Clause and Test Case - deciding to put more into
the glossary. Plus we added the diagram to clarify this. Is the addition
of the text to accompany the diagram enough for this paragraph? That's
what I tried to do in 0.9.9.8 - does this need replacing?

Best regards

Steve

2009/1/15 Durand, Jacques R. <JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>:
> in wiki, under section 1.1, suggested replacement for the intro paragraph
> that is illustrated by Fig 1:
>
> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/tag/TestAssertionGuidelines
>
> Suggested new text:
>
> The notion of test assertion is to be distinguished from the following often
> related concepts:
>
> Conformance Clause: The specification will often have one or more
> conformance clauses [CONF1][CONF2][Appendix A, Glossary] which define
> generally what is required from an implementation to claim conformance to
> the specification or to one of its profiles. Test assertions are generally
> defined separately from conformance clauses. They may however be associated
> with a conformance clause in order to define more precisely what conformance
> will entail. For example, a set of test assertions may be assigned to a
> conformance clause, or may even be directly referred to by the conformance
> clause.
>
> Test Case: Test cases [Appendix A, Glossary] are derived from test
> assertions, meaning they implement the related test expression(s), thus
> providing an executable way to verify that an implementation fulfills the
> normative feature addressed by a test assertion. Several test cases may be
> derived from the same test assertion, e.g. to verify fulfillment in
> different contexts. Conversely, a test case may be derived from several test
> assertions
>
>
>
> Jacques



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