Re: [wsbpel-implement] Question and Comment on Test Suites

[rkhalaf <rkhalaf@watson.ibm.com>]

Hi Andrew,

Welcome :)
This group has been dormant for a while.

It is out of scope for this group to standardize testing. Instead the 
goals included providing support to the main group to test issues and to 
talk about issues raised when implmenting the spec.

andrew.francis@mail.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Hello Colleagues:
> 
> I am new to OASIS and the BPEL group. I am have been going
> through the Implementation archive. Has there been any new
> thoughts on how to come up with a standardised way to test
> BPEL implementations?
> 
> In the past, I have found it difficult to discuss certain
> BPEL problems, for instance, compensation, without resorting
> to using a "formalism" (and I am not a theoretician), like
> execution traces. I suspect some way of describing the
> execution trace/path/graph of a running BPEL process would
> be necessary to come up with a way to effectively test
> engines.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>