Hi, The SDO Community Test Suite has amassed a good number of test cases since we started only a couple of months ago. In view of this, it seems we should think about a milestone 1 release. There are a couple of areas we could improve on so I'd appreciate comments and additional views/insights from the community.
There are a couple of pages in the wiki ( http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANY/Index) about the SDO CTS, we could do with adding more pages - but I don't think this should gate an M1 release. I was wondering if we should have a number of main suites in the cts/sdo2.1 project. Currently we have the CTSGeneralSuite which includes the DateConversionTest XSDSerialisationTest DataObjectTest and DynamicTypesFromSchemaTestCase test cases classes. This is a subset of the test cases in the cts/sdo2.1 project. I guess there are a couple options. 1. Use a similar approach to the cts/sdo2.1-tuscany project and have "Core", "Optional" and "UnderReview" suites 2. Group test cases into areas according to the part of the specification they cover. Whilst 2 seems like it could be interesting, I tend to prefer the first approach as I have a feeling that we may just end up with as many suites as test case classes . Alternatively we could just leave the decision to those using the CTS, although this may make it harder for a user (as opposed to an SDO implementer) to run and understand the tests - WDYT ? Comments greatly appreciated - what do you think needs to happen before we cut a M1 release ? Many thanks to Robbie and friends for their contributions to date. All the best, Dan
