Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-11-12 Thread Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Hi Marcos, I saw that the test suite for TWI was discussed on the WebApps call today: http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-wam-minutes.html#item05 Since the discussion didn’t allude at all to my mail below about generated test cases, I thought I would point you to it explicitly in case you had missed

Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-11-12 Thread Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 17:35 +0100, Marcos Caceres a écrit : On the other hand, automated test generation can generate a large number of test cases and is less prone to human errors. But, at the same time, it cannot test some things that are written in the prose. For example, a AU must

Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-11-12 Thread Marcos Caceres
Hi Dom, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: Hi Marcos, I saw that the test suite for TWI was discussed on the WebApps call today: http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-wam-minutes.html#item05 Since the discussion didn’t allude at all to my mail below about generated test cases, I thought I would point

Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-11-12 Thread Marcos Caceres
Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 17:35 +0100, Marcos Caceres a écrit : On the other hand, automated test generation can generate a large number of test cases and is less prone to human errors. But, at the same time, it cannot test some things that are written in

Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-11-12 Thread Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 17:52 +0100, Marcos Caceres a écrit : I complete agree that manual tests bring a lot of value, but I think it would be unwise to refuse automated tests that express exactly what the spec expresses — in particular, they can be extremely useful to detect bugs in

Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-11-12 Thread Marcos Caceres
Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 17:52 +0100, Marcos Caceres a écrit : I complete agree that manual tests bring a lot of value, but I think it would be unwise to refuse automated tests that express exactly what the spec expresses — in particular, they can be

Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Wilson
Apache Wookie got 2 that failed, and the rest couldn't run - I think because WindowWidget is not required for all UAs to conform, but is required as a prerequisite by the test. After some tweaking I got some slightly more useful results... so its definitely a start! We've been using this

[widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL

2009-10-28 Thread Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Hi, Using wttjs [1], I have generated a bunch of low-level test cases for the Widgets Interface spec, based on its WebIDL, and uploaded them to: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/tests/idl-gen/ Since I don’t have a widgets engine that would implement the spec, I haven’t been able to check