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alt="W3C" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" /></a>
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<h1><a id="spec-title" name="spec-title" shape="rect">QA Framework: Test
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Guidelines</a></h1>
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<h2><a id="dated-subtitle" name="dated-subtitle" shape="rect">W3C Working
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Draft 20 August 2004</a></h2>
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<dl>
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<dt>This version:</dt>
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<dd><a shape="rect"
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-test-20040820/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-test-20040820/</a></dd>
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<dt>Latest version:</dt>
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<dd><a shape="rect"
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-test/">http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-test/</a></dd>
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<dt>Previous version:</dt>
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<dd><a shape="rect"
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-test-20040225/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-test-20040225/</a></dd>
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<dt>Editors:</dt>
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<dd>Patrick Curran (<a shape="rect"
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href="mailto:patrick.curran@sun.com">Patrick.Curran@sun.com</a>)</dd>
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<dd>Dimitris Dimitriadis (<a shape="rect"
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href="mailto:dimitris@ontologicon.com">dimitris@ontologicon.com</a>)</dd>
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</dl>
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<p class="copyright"><a shape="rect"
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a>
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© 2002-2004 <a href="http://www.w3.org/" shape="rect"><acronym
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title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym></a><sup>®</sup> (<a
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title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</acronym></a>, <a
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title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</acronym></a>,
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<a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/" shape="rect">Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved.
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licensing</a> rules apply.</p>
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<h2><a id="abstract" name="abstract" shape="rect">Abstract</a></h2>
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<p>The principal goal of <cite>QA Framework: Test Guidelines</cite> is to
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help W3C Working Groups to develop more useful and usable test materials. The
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material is to be presented as a set of principles and good practices. This
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document is one in a family of QA Framework documents of the <a shape="rect"
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href="http://www.w3.org/QA/">Quality Assurance (<acronym
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title="QA">QA</acronym>) Activity</a>. The other existing or in-progress
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specifications are: <cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/qa-handbook/">The QA
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Handbook</a></cite>, and <cite><a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/">Specification
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Guidelines</a></cite>.</p>
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<h2><a id="status" name="status" shape="rect">Status of this document</a></h2>
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<p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
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publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current
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W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be
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found in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/" shape="rect">W3C technical
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reports index</a> at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Progression and publication of this document is temporarily on
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hold.</strong></p>
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<p>Previously published versions of this document were W3C Working Drafts
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made available by the W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/">Quality
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Assurance (QA) Working Group</a> for discussion by W3C members and other
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interested parties. For more information about the QA Activity, please see
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the <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Activity" shape="rect">QA Activity
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statement</a>.</p>
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<p>At its <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2004/06/f2f-minutes">June 2004
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face-to-face</a> meeting, the QA Working Group (QAWG) determined that it had
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insufficient resources to progress all parts of the QA Framework together at
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the same pace. Therefore, it resolved to focus resources on first progressing
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<cite>The QA Handbook</cite> and <cite>Specification Guidelines</cite> to the
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maturity level of Last Call Working Draft. Those resources would then be
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available for progressing <cite>Test Guidelines</cite> (TestGL) to the same
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level of maturity.</p>
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<p>Shorly after publication of the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-test-20040225/">previous
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version</a> of TestGL, the QAWG resolved at its <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2004/03/f2f-minutes#QAF-future">2004 Technical
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Plenary face-to-face</a> meeting (March 2004) that TestGL and the other parts
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of the QA Framework would be revised to be lighter-weight, less
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authoritarian, and more user-friendly and useful. QAWG discussed and agreed
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to an <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2004Apr/att-0008/TestGL-20040404.html">initial
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outline</a> for a revised, lightweight TestGL.</p>
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<p>Despite the delay of publication and progression, the QAWG wants to
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continue development of the material for TestGL. Accordingly, a <a
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href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/QA#head-8dc1a611f322110d4051f570a734454f1a6463f7">TestGL
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idea-incubator</a> area has been set up in the <a
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href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/QA">QA Wiki pages</a>. Material within the
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scope of TestGL has been placed there, and contributions are encouraged.</p>
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<p>Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
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Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or
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obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this
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document as other than work in progress.</p>
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<p>Patent disclosures relevant to this specification may be found on the
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Working Group's <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34282/status" rel="disclosure">Patent disclosure
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page</a> in conformance with the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">W3C Patent
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Policy</a> of 5 February 2004. An individual who has actual knowledge of a
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patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) with respect
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to this specification should disclose the information in accordance with
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<a>section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy</a>. [3]</p>
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<p>You may email comments about this or previous <cite>Test Guidelines</cite>
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documents, or about topics in the <a
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href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/QA#head-8dc1a611f322110d4051f570a734454f1a6463f7">TestGL
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Wiki area</a>, to <a shape="rect"
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href="mailto:www-qa@w3.org">www-qa@w3.org</a>, the <a shape="rect"
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/">publicly archived</a> list
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of the <a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/QA/IG/">QA Interest Group</a>. Please note
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that comments that you make will be <strong>publicly</strong> archived and
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available, do not send information you would not want to see distributed,
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such as private data. You are also encouraged to contribute your ideas,
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examples, or related materials directly to the <a
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href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/QA#head-8dc1a611f322110d4051f570a734454f1a6463f7">TestGL
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Wiki area</a>.</p>
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