* Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-24 03:50]:
> It would be helpful if every entry had a distinct atom:id.  And
> if the tests were valid:
> 
> http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplasmasturm.org%2Fattic%2Fatom-tests%2Fxmlbase.atom

Yeah, I should fix those. I’ve also been thinking about the
suggestions to use `<img>` tags to make it easy to scan the
results quickly. Likewise I’ve been thinking about Gordon
Weakliem’s comment on the wiki:

> I suggest that the tests be documented with respect to the
> expected results. For example, TitleConformanceTests is
> perfect: viewing the feed tells you what the expected result
> is. LinkConformanceTests, OTOH, gives me no idea of what the
> author expected to see when viewing the entry in a reader. For
> example, what does the author expect to see when viewing the
> second entry? If I display only the second link, do I pass? Do
> I need to display both links to pass?

I’d like to do more, but writing tests is menial work, and I
don’t have a lot of tuits at the time being. That’s why I asked
about being able to host these at the wiki, so that the touch-up
process would be low-friction.

If you lack tuits to take care of that, I could copy everything
to my site, for the time being, for easier editing.

I make no promises as to when any of that will be, though. :-/

Honestly, I’m a little disappointed that not more tests have been
written so far, and that is has been happening in such haphazard
fashion. Is it really because noone cares? (I suppose I don’t
care that much either, judging by my output.) What would it take
to get more people more involved? Would it help if there was a
list of outstanding testable spec aspects? What aspects need to
be tested (this needs more feedback from consumer developers!)?

Hmm, #atom would be an ideal place to get this done within a
short timeframe, provided a mob got together.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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