Re: Test suite coordination

[James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>]

I find it very hard to author and maintain a test suite when it has
gazillions of little files.  I find it much easier if an entire test case or
even collection of test cases can be collected in a single file. Especially
when writing a test case for a valid pattern, it's helpful have the pattern,
the instances that it is supposed to match and the instances it is supposed
not to match in a single file. Since all are test cases are XML, it seems
natural to me to use XML to represent a test case.  This also allows us to
add arbitrary amounts of metadata.

<testCase>
  <id>empty1</id>
  <createdBy>James Clark</createdBy>
  <date>2001-06-15</date>
  <doc>Tests a single empty element.</doc>
  <validPattern>
    <element name="foo">
      <empty/>
    </element>
  <validPattern>
  <valid>
     <foo/>
  </valid>
  <invalid>
    <foo>stuff</foo>
  </invalid>
  <invalid>
    <bar/>
  </invalid>
</testCase>

It is easy to write a XSLT stylesheet that will take a document with a
collection of such test cases and generate a set of files.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI" <kohsuke.kawaguchi@eng.sun.com>
To: <relax-ng@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:42 AM
Subject: Test suite coordination


>
> I have several test cases (valid grammar, invalid grammar, valid
> documents, and invalid documents) which is named according to the
> following rule:
>
> valid grammars:   XXXXXXXX.rng
> invalid grammrs:  XXXXXXXX.e.rng
> valid documents:  XXXXXXXX.vYYYYY.xml
> invalid documents:XXXXXXXX.nYYYYY.xml
>
> For example, "foo.v1.xml" is a valid instance for the grammar "foo.rng".
> How is this naming convention?
>
>
> My proposal is to set up a project in SourceForge, whose name would be
> "relaxng", which is still available, and collect test suites under that
> project. I also think that project might be a good place to host the
> datatype interface.
>
> Is there anyone who has experience of setting up a project in
> SourceForge? and willing to set up one for us?
>
>
> P.S. is it possible to release the datatype interface as a committee
> work product?
>
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> Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI                          +1 650 786 0721
> Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi@sun.com
>
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