QA in the field for the Compound Document Formats Working Group

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, QA Activity Lead

Compound Document Formats Working Group First F2F

November 8 2004

What is "QA in the field"?

• QA Activity since 2001
• developed documents, tools...
• now trying to work closely with a few WG

CDF WG Charter

Testing

• Clear conformance criteria for any specifications.
• Development and publication of a comprehensive test suite for any of the group's deliverables.
• Publication of implementation reports associated with the test suites

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Deliverables:

• ...April 2005 - Candidate Recommendation of "Combination by Reference" specifications.
• April 2005 - Publication of "Combination by Reference" test suite...

What does this imply?

CDF is the new QA Working Group!

• combining specs → playing with conformance
• Test Suite published by CR → work needs to be started now

Points to address early...

For the Specs

• conformance model and classes of products (see SpecGL, Variability in Specifications)
• editing technology (XML Spec?)
• tagging test assertions, conformance requirements

Conformance spaghetti...

Good luck!

Points to address early...

For the Test Suites:

• agree on a development and review process
• licensing of contribution to the test suite (depends on whether Rec-track or not)
• licensing of published test cases

In practice...

Karl Dubost, main point of contact

Collaboration goes both ways

How the QA Team can help

• Documents: Specification Guidelines, QA Handbook, QA Wiki
• Records: QA Matrix
• Tools & Documentation: Editors Home Page
• Outreach (public-evangelist@w3.org)

Help us too...

• send feedback to QA WG (upcoming LC)
• discuss ideas for tools or docs in www-qa@w3.org
• contribute to the Wiki