#indiewebcamp 2012-12-11

2012-12-11 UTC
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tantek over in #whatwg MikeSmith was jokingly asking for the ability to "Like" test cases in order to encourage more of them being written / posted
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tantek at first I suggested he build that as an angel funded startup pitched as "a social network for enterprise certification"
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tantek however, there might actually be some utility in considering "test case" as a content posting type for indieweb purposes
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tantek I often post one-off test cases that I need in the course of developing various standards, and don't want to bother with figuring out if they belong in a test suite, or which existing test suite etc.
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tantek the thing about test cases is that they often require their own dedicated URL
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tantek especially if they test things in <html> <head> <meta> etc.
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tantek so a post "containing" a test case would likely only be an approximation of the test, or test more than it intended
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tantek a post of a test case would necessarily be just a summary
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tantek and it would need a URL to the test case itself
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tantek which feels like a link-post.
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tantek perhaps we can experiment with test case posts as just being "link" posts tagged with "testcase" and see if there is anything necessary beyond that.
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tantek for reference, the CSSWG test page template has information like: author(s) of test, reviewer(s) of test, link(s) to tested assertion(s), test assertion(s) text(s), requirement flags (tags from a taxonomy) - http://wiki.csswg.org/test/format
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tantek similarly, Glenn Jones is working on the test-fixture poshformat for a #microformats 2 test-suite: https://github.com/microformats/tests/blob/master/about-textfixture.html
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