Comments on the TA markup

["Jacques R. Durand" <JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>]

Quick comment:

 

I think we should clearly remind the user that optionality in the mark-up does NOT mean optionality for actual TA instances...

, e.g. add at the end of Section 2.2 a clear warning:

 

"NOTE: valid instances of XML representations defined here may omit optional parts as indicated with "?" and "*" (examples: testAssertion/target?, testAssertion/Predicate?), however test assertion instances so represented MUST comply with cardinality requirements in the TA model specification, which may actually require that optional elements in the XML representation be specify in other ways (e.g. see "implicit TA parts") outside this particular XML fragment (example: an "implicit" TA target)."

 

Otherwise the user may be confused and believe that s/he does not need to specify such parts at all.

 

-jacques