[odf-discuss] test suite effort at OASIS

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

odf-discuss-bounces at opendocumentfellowship.com wrote on 05/12/2008 
02:50:14 PM:

> Lars Noodén wrote:
> > Daniel Carrera wrote:
> >> Volunteer to help with the test suite effort at OASIS.
> > 
> > How?  Please post a link.
> 
> Send an email to Rob Weir. Or maybe he'll reply right here.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.

Lars,

This is an idea I've been shopping around.  Last week (or maybe the week 
before?) we had a discussion of it on this list.  Maybe you can find the 
full threat in the archives, or maybe buried in your inbox.

Essentially, the idea is to create a new effort at OASIS called the "ODF 
Implementation, Interoperability and Compliance TC".  It would own all the 
technical pieces related to interoperability, stuff that is beyond the 
charter of the ODF TC.  So, test suites, interoperability guides, 
implementation guides, etc.  The need for a test suite seemed high on the 
list, based on the discussions we had here.  Additionally, when we probed 
deeper, we found that there were at least three kinds of test suites that 
were desirable:

1) Atomic (single feature) test suites, along the lines of  the University 
of Central Florida effort that the Fellowship now maintains.

2) Something along the lines of the ACID2 test, something public-facing, 
that gives a strong message of what the state of interoperability is.  A 
challenge to implementors.

3) An interoperability test suite of real-world documents with real-world 
complexity, including user errors.

I stated that I didn't want a "false start" with this effort, so I'm not 
starting anything official at OASIS until I have lined up a critical mass 
of participants, which I thought would around 6-9 people.

I'm also making a request within IBM to get some other commitments off my 
plate so I can dedicate myself to this effort.  I hope to have a go/no go 
signal in another week or so.

-Rob

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