[Webtest] RFC: Adding a 'desc' and "url" attribute to <testSpec>

[Siegfried Göschl]

On 6 Mar 2003 at 15:17, Daniel Sheppard wrote:

> Are your webtests not containing enough description to be test plans
> in and of themselves?
> 

That's exactly the point - I simply do not believe in huge test plans 
written as Word documents. We do that currently to get the testing 
started since the testers are not distracted by the implementation 
details. Afterwards I just want to maintain the webtest scripts and 
here is the test description missing.

> If it's simply the readability of your test scripts to other
> testers/non-testing staff, You should be able to write an xslt that
> will transform your test document into a more readable form.
> 

We currently have the test description as comment but relying on 
comments in an XML file is not the way to go.

> Has anybody written some xslt's for pretty displaying of tests in raw
> form that they'd like to share?
> 

No problem with a description tag ... :-) 

> If that doesn't meet your needs, My suggestion would be to have a
> <description> node that could be attached to testSpec and copied
> verbatim to the final report, ie.
> 
> <testSpec>
>         <description> Once upon a time, there was a test. It was a
>         good test, a lovely test </description> <steps> .... </steps>
> </testSpec>
> 
> (I don't know how difficult this is to do with ant's parser). This
> would also be useful in the case of an xslt running over the testSpec.
> 

Siegfried Goeschl
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Goeschl Siegfried [mailto:S.Goeschl@together.at]
> > Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 3:28 AM
> > To: webtest@gate.canoo.com
> > Subject: [Webtest] RFC: Adding a 'desc' and "url" attribute to
> > <testSpec>
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > any opinions about adding a "desc" and "url"attribute to <testSpec>.
> >
> > +) "desc" would contain a description what the test is actually
> > +doing ) "url" would provide a link to the test plan
> >
> > Both attributes can be written to report providing better
> > documentation.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Siegfried Goeschl
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