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On Monday 12 March 2007 11:51, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Frans Englich wrote: > >What I find the tricky part of this, is knowing when one have done it > >correctly, and in fact have done it at all, and haven't missed anything. > > What is the correct regression testing/quality assurance to perform on an > > XML parser? How does one avoid ending up with junk? > > > >For instance, if one pass W3C's XML Test Suite[1], does that mean anything > > in practice, or must one resort to some other kind of conformance testing > > in addition? What do others do? > > If you do not pass the test suite that means something. Passing it means > much less since no matter how many individual test cases the suite might > have, your parser might fail to handle the one the suite does not in- > clude. As a simple example, the suite does not have documents > 4GB in > size. The suite is also quite incomplete, it lacks for example these: > > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-testsuite/2005Dec/0001.html > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-testsuite/2006Sep/0000.html Yeah, I gave that a slight push some days ago: http://www.nabble.com/xml:base-attributes-missing-for-eduni-tests-tf3348583.html But with those tests or not, I'd say the coverage could be a lot more useful, but that applies to a lot of public test suites. Cheers, Frans
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