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Subject: Notes from public session 9/6/2000, Boston
The Technical Committee held a public discussion session on our conformance testing work at XML World in Boston. Five of the seven committee members attended, and we heard from Paul Rabin of Excelon and Emily Farmer of Lotus/IBM. Here are a few points that I found memorable: Q: How will we know how complete the test suite is? A: We'll do our best, but we anticipate that additional tests could be incorporated in the future. Q: Does the committee have a plan to disband at some point? A: It's not required and we have no plans either way (yet). In a discussion about how the test cases can be filtered... Q: Can filtering exclude a functional area that the processor under test doesn't support? A: We don't intend for that to happen. If the test applies to a feature that the specs require, the test can't be excluded. Exclusion is for discretionary items. Q: What are "categories" of tests for? A: They might help in assessing conformance on a piecewise basis. Also help in looking at test coverage. Q: Might it be useful to designate "minimal functionality" just to get the test system working? A: We'd rather not do that. Reporter's note: all verbiage above is strictly my own and any resemblance to actual verbiage uttered (rather than concepts expressed) is purely coincidental. .................David Marston
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