Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group

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The mission of the MWI Test Suites Working Group is to help create a strong foundation for the mobile Web through the development of a set of test suites targeted at browsers.

These test suites can help assess which technologies and which features of a given technologies are supported in existing browsers on mobile devices.

Contribute

To help establish browsers support charts based on existing test suites, please put your mobile web browser through the tests suites available in our mobile-friendly test harness, which automatically collects results as you go.

Do you know of a specific Web technology or combinations of Web technologies with poor interoperability on mobile devices? Let us know on public-mwts@w3.org and we'll see if we can come up with good test cases for it.

You can also contribute improvements to the test harness since it is released as an open-source project on the W3C public CVS repository.

If you are an individual willing to commit some part of your time to help develop the test suites described below, please get in touch with Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> as you may be eligible to become Invited Expert in this group.

If you are a W3C Member employee, learn how to join this Working Group.

News

November 17, 2009: minutes of November 17 teleconf: WCTMB2

November 10, 2009: minutes of November 10 teleconf: Widgets testing, WCTMB2

October 27, 2009: minutes of October 27 teleconf: Widgets testing

October 20, 2009: minutes of October 20 teleconf: Widgets testing

October 13, 2009: minutes of October 13 teleconf: Widgets testing, WCTMB2

September 29, 2009: minutes of September 29 teleconf: Widgets testing, WCTMB2

Sember 23, 2009: Widgets test suite completed during a dedicated F2F event.

September 15, 2009: minutes of September 15 teleconf: Widgets testing, WCTMB2

September 8, 2009: minutes of September 8 teleconf: Widgets testing, WCTMB2

August 4, 2009: minutes of August 4 teleconf: Widgets testing, WCTMB2

(past news)

Deliverables

Ongoing work

Test suites

Conformance Test Suites
See our survey of conformance test suites produced by W3C and OMA Working Groups
our mobile-friendly version of the DOM Level 1 test suite based on the original DOM Test suites
our additional test cases for CSS MP 2.0
our test cases for CSS Media Types
our test cases for XHTML Forms
our Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers (WCTMB) and its manifesto
our early work on the second version of the Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browser
a test of memory limits in mobile browsers
Elsewhere

We have integrated some of the test suites above in our Mobile Test Harness: you can help improve the knowledge about your browser by going through these test suites in this tool!

Tools

Mobile Test Harness
The Mobile Test Harness is a framework that can host Web-based test suites, allowing for a simple navigation from one test cases to the other, while recording results submitted by the user; the code of the harness is available as an open-source project

See also other W3C QA Tools.

Logistics

We use Tracker to track issues and action items.

We are meeting weekly on the phone during one hour, on Tuesdays, at 5pm CET / 11 am ET / 8am PT.

The teleconference bridge ("Zakim") is reachable at +1.617.761.6200 (numbers in France and the UK also available), with the teleconference code 8794.

In addition to the phone, we use the W3C IRC server on channel #mwts to scribe and communicate written information:

trackbot, start meeting
Agenda: uri
Chair: chair
Regrets: regrets

See also RRSAgent documentation, Zakim bot documentation, Trackbot documentation.

References

Liaisons

Wilhelm Andersen , Opera, and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, W3C, <dom@w3.org>, co-Chairs
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European FP7 logo The running of this working group is supported by the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) through the MobiWeb 2.0 Project, and its set up was funded through the 3GWeb European Project.