Adam
I am sorry on a Mac its "ctrl alt x".
ht
tp://ufxtract.com/testsuite/hcard/1.0/hcard1.htm
Glenn
On 07/05/2008 14:13, "Adam Craven - Four Shapes"
<adam.craven fourshapes.com> wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> It doesn't seem to work (Firefox 2/mac),
>
> Adam
>
> On 7 May 2008, at 11:39, Glenn Jones wrote:
>
>> As the dev list does not seem to be working at the
moment, reposted
>> here.
>>
>> Just added Operator to testrunner, but you have to
use Firefox.
>>> If you go to ht
tp://ufxtract.com/testsuite/hcard/1.0/hcard1.htm and
>> press Alt X you can see a working demonstration of
the testrunner.
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Glenn Jones
>> Sent: 03 May 2008 12:11
>> To: 'microformats-devmicroformats.org'
>> Subject: New microformats test-suite idea
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have been working on a concept for a new
microformats test-suite. I
>> need a comprehensive test-suite before I can move
the development of
>> UfXtract forward. Rather than just build something
in isolation I
>> thought it would be nice to find a way to share
this work with the
>> community.
>>
>> I have written two POSH patterns
"testsuite" and "testfixture". They
>> follow the principles of microformats design:
>> * They are self-describing and created with HTML
,with no hidden
>> metadata
>> * Building a test should be easy even for those who
are HTML
>> authors
>> * They are not linked to any one programming
language and should
>> be easy to share
>> * They allow for the creation of an in-browser
Testrunner
>>
>> For example go to http://ufxtr
act.com/testsuite/hcard/1.0/
>>
>> The earliest tests for hcard used vcards to
describe the expected
>> output. As the community has moved forward it has
designed
>> microformats
>> which are independent of external specification. So
this test-suite is
>> designed around the concept of a standardised data
structure. In this
>> case, expressed in JSON, but they could be
converted into XPaths to
>> test
>> XML or other languages.
>>
>> I have started to build a small console app, which
will spider the
>> HTML
>> and create NUnit/C# class files for my build tests.
Although this is
>> specific to my own parsers development, it should
be easy to do the
>> same
>> for other programming languages and projects.
>>
>> Parsing "testsuite" and
"testfixture".
>> I have already setup UfXtract to parse these
patterns into JSON/XML.
>> It
>> would not take much for other microformats parser
developers to
>> construct profiles for these POSH patterns.
>> Here is an example of the output.
>> http://lab.backnetwork.com/ufXtract/?url
=http%3A%2F%2Fufxtract.com%2Ftes
>>
tsuite%2Fhcard%2F1.0%2Fhcard1.htm&format=test-fixture&am
p;output=json
>>
>>
>> The Testrunner
>>
>> If you go to ht
tp://ufxtract.com/testsuite/hcard/1.0/hcard1.htm and
>> press Alt X you can see a working demonstration of
the testrunner.
>>
>> I have observed that most parser developers are
using comparative
>> testing as their main tool to quickly understand
how the complex rules
>> and optimizations are applied. So I have built a
JavaScript Testrunner
>> which allows for simple comparative testing between
parsers.
>>
>> It uses a number of techniques to standardise both
access to the
>> parsers
>> API's and the JSON output. ***Please note that at
this stage the JSON
>> standardisation process can cause a test to be
marked as failed when
>> it
>> could be judged to have passed***. Most of the
current differences in
>> parser output are down to whether a value is stored
as single property
>> or an array of properties.
>>
>> At the moment the Testrunner is only working with
the testfixure , it
>> would not take much to extend the Testrunner to run
a whole test-
>> suite.
>>
>> I would love to add Operator and other parsers to
the Testrunner.
>>
>> Proof of concept
>> This is very early proof of concept stuff. What I
would like to ask
>> is a
>> number of questions before moving it forward.
>>
>> * Are people interested in the idea of shared
test-suites?
>> * What do you think to the approach?
>> * Can you see any big issues with the concepts?
>> * If you already have tests/test-suites, would you
be willing to
>> add them to the project?
>> * Would you be interested in contributing to a
project like this?
>>
>> Hope you like the idea.
>>
>> PS: the JavaScript needs serious re-factoring; I
will simplify it
>> soon.
>>
>>
>> Glenn Jones
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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