Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group

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.

News

April 15, 2008: Minutes of April 15 teleconference: Web Compatibility for Mobile Browsers last touches before announcement

April 8, 2008: Minutes of April 8 teleconference: mobile acid test

April 1st, 2008: Minutes of April 1st teleconference: mobile acid test

March 12, 2008: mobile ACID test moved to W3C server.

March 11, 2008: Minutes of March 11 teleconference: mobile acid test, WG future.

February 26, 2008: Minutes of February 26 teleconference: mobile acid test

February 5, 2008: Minutes of February 5 teleconference: css media type tests, mobile acid test

January 22, 2008: Minutes of January 22 teleconference: mobile acid test

January 15, 2008: Minutes of January 15 teleconference: mobile acid test, SVG TS coverage analysis.

(past news)

Deliverables

Ongoing work

creation of a "Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers": first draft and manifesto
collaboration with OMA on sharing test suites:
- completing the existing WCSS test suites to cover CSS MP 2.0: additional test cases
- coverage analysis of SVG Tiny 1.2 test suite: draft analysis (transmitted to SVG WG)
improvements to the mobile test harness

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 and its manifesto

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

Logistics

We are meeting weekly on the phone during one hour, on Tuesdays, at 5pm CET / 11 am ET / 8am PT. NB: meetings on March 11, 18 and 25 2008 will be at 5pm CET, and thus 12pm ET, 9am PT due to the US switching to Summer time on March 9th.

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:

/invite RRSAgent
/invite Zakim
RRSAgent, make log public
Zakim, this will be TS
Meeting: MWI Test Suites Working Group teleconf
Agenda: uri
Chair: chair
Regrets: regrets

References

Liaisons

OMA IOP Browsing group

Carmelo Montanez , NIST, and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, W3C, <dom@w3.org>, co chairs
$Id: Overview.html,v 1.143 2008/04/21 03:27:58 dom Exp $

The running of this working group is funded by the European Union through the MobiWeb 2.0 Project, and its set up was funded through the 3GWeb European Project.