The mission of the Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group, part of the Mobile Web Initiative Activity, is to help create a strong foundation for the mobile Web through the development of a set of tests suited for browsers on mobile devices.
Software providers need tests to ensure that their products correctly implement the W3C technologies required for mobile Web access. The MWI Test Suites Working Group allows sharing the development cost of test suites within the community.
End date | 31 December 2009 |
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Confidentiality | Proceedings are Public |
Initial Chairs | Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Wilhelm Joys Andersen |
Initial Team Contacts (FTE %: 50) |
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux |
Usual Meeting Schedule | Teleconferences: Weekly Face-to-face: Once Annually |
The main objective of the MWI Test Suites Working Group is to enable the development of a rich mobile Web experience by providing tests suited to user agents on mobile devices.
These tests can then be used by developers of user agents to increase the quality of their software, and by other actors in the market to advocate for better standards support, and to use the knowledge gathered on user agents to develop content that will work well across a large set of devices.
The scope of the MWI Test Suites Working Group includes:
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) InterOperability Process (IOP) group has a sub-Working Group dedicated to browsing technologies, working on a set of interoperability test suites for mobile Web technologie.
While the scope of the work done by the MWI Test Suites group and this OMA group differ (conformance vs interoperability test suites), the MWI Test Suites Working Group intends to develop a strong working relationship with OMA IOP Browsing by making use of the W3C-OMA liaison agreement which defines basic inter-working principles between the two bodies, as well as through the collaboration agreement on test suites set up between the W3C and OMA on CSS MP and XHTML MP test suites.
Effective participation to Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group is expected to consume one work day per week for each participant.
Participants are reminded of the Good Standing requirements of the W3C Process.
This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list public-mwts@w3.org (archive); the member only mailing list member-mwts@w3.org is used for administrative and logistics questions .
Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group home page.
As explained in the Process Document (section 3.3), this group will seek to make decisions when there is consensus. When the Chair puts a question and observes dissent, after due consideration of different opinions, the Chair should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote) and any objections, and move on.
Note: All of the deliverables of this Working Group are informative-only. Per section 8.3 of the W3C Patent Policy, since no provisions in these deliverables constitute "architectural [or] interoperability requirements," participants in this Working Group have no licensing obligations associated with any of these chartered deliverables.
The Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on the topic addressed by the charter. This Working Group is not chartered to produce Recommendations with associated licensing obligations as described by the W3C Patent Policy. W3C reminds Working Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While this Working Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Working Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from other Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.
For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.
This charter for the Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.
The running of this working group is supported by the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) through the MobiWeb 2.0 Project.
Please also see the previous charter for this group.
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