[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (TAG-9) Tag-Comment: Why TAMLPredicate not Formal?

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Dennis Hamilton commented on TAG-9:
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In the 2010-11-30 Teleconference, Jacques Durand pointed out that, while we do not specify a machine-interpretable formalism for a Test Assertion Predicate, the taml:predicate element optional lg attribute provides for identification of a formalism in which the predicate is expressed.

The resolution is being updated accordingly and the original commenter notified.

> Tag-Comment: Why TAML Predicate not Formal?
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TAG-9
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/TAG-9
>             Project: OASIS Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: TA markup doc CD 02
>            Reporter: Dennis Hamilton
>            Assignee: Dennis Hamilton
>
> This TAG-Comment is from "Bahareh Heravi" <Bahareh.Heravi@brunel.ac.uk> on 2010-05-11: 
>    <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tag-comment/201005/msg00002.html>.
> The question is why is not a formal notation for predicates introduced in TAML   To wit,
> """
> As far as I understand Test Assertions are meant to kind of formalise Normative Statements in the specifications which is superb.
> I couldn't find a description for Test Assertion Mark-up Language in its spec but I reckon it provides a XML representation of the Test Assertions. However, I don't quite get the point of a machine readable representation when the predicates are not formal.
> """
> The concern is that the predicate is not machine-interpretable.

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