Re: [tag] Groups - TAML Draft Schema (testAssertionMarkupLanguage-0-5.xsd) uploaded

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

Problem I'm wary of with @mode attribute - it puts a
lot of weight on the value held in the attribute which
means a list of enumerations being attached to the
attribute and enumerations are a long way from ideal in
a schema (difficult to extend the list, easy to lose the
values if they are held outside the schema in another
document). Plus there is not much can be done with an
attribute (an attribute cannot have its own attributes).
When you think how important the content of whatever
construct will be to the logic of a whole test assertion
set, I would think the structure needs to be very well
able to support the logic. To me this means using
elements rather than attributes and enumerations and
ensuring it is all there in the schema rather than just
hidden away as annotations or enumerations held in
a separate document.
---
Stephen D Green




2009/9/11 Jacques R. Durand <JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>:
> Stephen:
>
> Trying to foresee all situations we could face:
>
> - "composability" of shares material only makes sense for the logical
> ones: Predicate, Prerequisite - and maybe for normativeSource. Others
> are always overriden.
>
> - It might be too inflexible to specify at top level (set header) what
> the policy should be.
> Can't we have a situation where in the same set (say a set of Tas for a
> conformance profile), a TA will override a shared part (e.g. a few Tas
> in the set have their own prerequisite that should ignore the "shared"
> one), while the others - the bulk of them - will always "compose" with
> the shared prereq?
>
> - In this situation, shouldn't we make room for indicating how to deal
> with the share in  a more flexible way? E.g. could be an additional
> "@mode" attribute on Prerequsite or Predicate element. In a TA,
> prerequisite/@mode = "override" while in another TA, prerequisite/@mode
> = "compose-and".
>
> Jacques
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:14 AM
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> Subject: [tag] Groups - TAML Draft Schema
> (testAssertionMarkupLanguage-0-5.xsd) uploaded
>
> The 'shared' element in TA set has been modified: Separate aggregate
> elements have been created, namely 'overrides' and 'composites', as
> children of 'shared'. These contain shared TA parts. The behaviour of
> the shared parts in relation to the set's contained TAs depends on
> whether they are 'overrides' (override corresponding parts of the
> grouped TAs) or 'composites' (added to the corresponding grouped TAs'
> parts with compsite 'AND' behaviour).
>
>  -- Stephen Green
>
> The document revision named TAML Draft Schema
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