Allen,
is the Test262 test suite more similar to W3C suites or might there
be an acidic element?
ie something the public might understand?
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 21 Jun 2010, at 06:52, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
At the last TC39 meeting we agreed to launch a project to develop an
official ECMAScript specification test suite that developers and
users can use to verify that implementations accurately implement
the standard. The hope is that we can integrate the various
existing test suites along with new tests to create a single
comprehensive test suite for the ECMAScript standard.
Because of the nature of Ecma's intellectual property policies, only
Ecma members can directly contribute code to the project. However,
the project code will be BSD licensed and development will be
carried out in a publically accessible manner. The working name of
the test suite is Test262 and I'll be serving as the initial project
editor. The source code of the project will be hosted in the TS39
repository at http://hg.ecmascript.org (coming soon) and issues
will be tracked at http://bugs.ecmascript.org/report/15 . In
addition, I'm setting up a separate test262-discuss mailing list
for topics relating to ECMAScript testing and the Test262 test
suite. Test262-discuss is open to the public. You can subscribe at t http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/test262-discuss
I'm now in the early stages of organizing the project
infrastructure and collecting initial code contributions from Ecma
members. To kick things off, Microsoft is contributing the
ES5Confrom test suite as well as a significant number of additional
tests. Christian Plesner Hansen, leader of the Sputnik project ,
reports that Google will contribute their Sputnik code. Other TC39
members have all been supportive of this effort and I anticipate
that we will receive additional contributions from them in the near
future.
So, if you're interested in ECMAScript testing subscribe to test262-
discuss and join in. After people have had a couple of days to
subscribe, I'll be kicking things off with some of my ideas about
how to structure and organize the Test262 suite. Please also share
your thoughts.
Thanks,
Allen Wirfs-Brock
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