"WeekinQA" is a summary of the main topics discussed on www-qa@w3.org, the public mailing-list of W3C QA Interest Group and www-qa-wg@w3.org, the public mailing-list of W3C's QA Working Group. See the calendar, initial requirements for this resource. Please contact Karl Dubost if you want to participate in this effort.
The new QA Framework: Specfication Guideline, known as SpecGL, was published for review and comment. The status section of the document identifies the issues and type of feedback that the WG is soliciting.
In the effort to publish the QA Framework: Specification Guideline, several issues discussed and resolved. Topics included new and refined definitions for use case, user scenario [1] and strict conformance [2]; clarification of modules, profiles, and levels in a specification [3], rules for defining profiles [4], and divisibility of modules [5].
See threads:
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/thread.html#91
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/thread.html#101
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/thread.html#34
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/thread.html#137
[5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002Aug/thread.html#33
A thread about structured grammars to enhance the testability of specifications and facilitate building test materials gave rise to the development of a questionnaire soliciting input from WG chairs. The objective is to determine whether there is a set of common tools and techniques that might help authors, and that might warrant further QAWG attention
See thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/thread.html#132
This discussion started a question asked of the WG - " Does the QA WG consider the terms "conformance" and "compliance" interchangeable?" The WG encourages the use of the term conformance
See thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/thread.html#157
Final Minutes QA WG 2002-08-07, Scribe: Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Final Minutes QA WG 2002-08-14, Scribe: Kirill Gavrylyuk
Final Minutes QA WG 2002-08-21, Scribe: Lynne Rosenthal
