Make tests easy to use

Rick graham.rick at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 13:53:58 EST 2006


On 1/18/06, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Cameron McCormack wrote:

> Sorry, I should have been clearer. The suggestion isn't so much to create
> a red or green rect, so much as to create something (anything) which, to
> the user, is immediately and obviously classifiable as a pass or a
> failure.

Yes, that was misunderstood, by myself at least.

>
> I'm not overly familiar with SVG's effects, but the trick is to find the
> edge cases that cause drammatic differences in the cases of failure vs
> success.
>

OK, that's what I meant to state when I said we should be applying
that type of thinking to the semantics of different types of tests. 
So we agree.

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Cheers!
Rick




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