IBM has more test cases than the OASIS ones, that it uses for release testing. I'm checking to see if IBM can contribute them to OASIS.
I also should mention that IBM disagrees with David Brownell on his interpretation of the XML spec in one particular test case, so now the parser has a switch, so that it can be done his way (or the "correct" way :-) :-). [That last statement had smileys, in case anybody missed them...] David mentioned that he doesn't have time to run his conformance test suite against the latest version of Xerces-J, so he can't verify himself that the conformance bugs discovered by his first set of tests are fixed. (In his first set of tests, the parser was also being instantiated incorrectly, which caused problems with the test harness -- alas). It would be nice if somebody on this list could volunteer to run the tests on the latest parsers, or even to write additional tests (especially API tests). My philosophy is that all tests should get run against every build, so that problems are detected as early as possible. We need to get our bug tracking mechanism up, too, so any problems can be tracked. Once the new TAZ is up, we'll hopefully be able to do that! Mike "Rajiv Mordani [CONTRACTOR]" wrote: > > We here use the OASIS test suite for xml conformance. That is freely available > from oasis-open. I believe that we should not duplicate efforts with those on > going at oasis. So it would be nice to know what is being done there and what > we > can do here so that we all can come up with a comprehensive test suite. I > believe they aren't looking at API testing as of now. So maybe DOM > conformance > is what can be taken up by someone. But as a start I would say that we take > their test suite and for the driver it would be nice to even take a look at > http://home.pacbell.net/david-b/xml/ for the efforts that he is putting into > it > and use them. This one too is open source. More tests can come as we go > along. > > - Rajiv > > >Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > >X-No-Archive: yes > >list-help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >list-unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >list-post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:21:01 -0800 > >From: Mike Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >X-Accept-Language: en > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Test package AND/OR test cases for Java XML > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >Sun mentioned in the past that they had a test suite and harness > >for Project X. IBM has one, too (I'm checking to see if IBM can > >contribute > >it), that is used to test every release before it goes out. > >I'd love to combine these together as Open Source, if possible! > > > >Mike > > > >"Arnold, Curt" wrote: > >> > >> Shaoping Zhou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > >> >>I have noticed that there are currently no systemetic test cases or > >> >>approaches as to how we test the Apache XML classes. > >> > >> I definitely don't like the idea of writing main() methods in the classes. > >> > >> I bought, but never seriously used, a couple of licences of SunTest's > >> JavaSpec tool which would seem ideal for this type of role. Unfortunately, > >> the product has been discontinued by Sun and was pretty expensive at couple > >> of K at seat. For the time being there is a short description at > >> http://www.sun.com/workshop/testingtools/javaspec.html. > >> > >> However, when I was looking for I couldn't find anything quite like it and > >> bought to use as a test harness for COM objects (back when Microsoft was > >> going to make Java and COM one). > >> > >> That said, I'm wondering if there are any Sun lurkers out there that know > >> if > >> it could be made available for Apache work (or open-sourced). What are you > >> guys doing for your in-house testing? > >> > >> Or is there another testing tool that lapped JavaSpec?
