The role of the Web Testing activity is to develop the testing mechanisms, outreach activities, and collateral materials for testing Web technologies.
For the past 10 years, W3C has been developing test suites for the purpose of demonstrating interoperable implementations of each specification when requesting the Director to approve a Proposed Recommendation transition. For example, one of the most recent specifications, CSS 2.1, has a test suite of around 9000 tests. Each Working Group has been developing test suites and generating test results in their own ways. Using ad-hoc processes and testing methods, most of them did not attempt to reuse existing methods or approaches. In the past, the Mobile Web Initiative did produce a series of integrated test suites for the Mobile platform and this kind of effort needs to be generalized across W3C Working Groups.
With the new wave of developments in the Open Web Platform, the increase diversity in devices, and the increase in demands for real interoperability between the technologies, it is important for W3C to step up its efforts and coordinate the energies in testing new technologies like HTML5, CSS3, ARIA, etc. There is a strong need for Web technologies to work out "out of the box" on any devices (Desktop, TV, mobile, tablet) and reliably in more consumer oriented use cases, including accessibility.
The intent of the acitivty is to enable testing of the various facets of Web agents: rendering, scripting, animation, performance, user interaction, or integration with platform APIs, such as Accessiblity APIs.
This activity has been created on October 12, 2011.
The mission of the Web Testing Interest Group, part of the Web Testing Activity, is to develop and deploy testing mechanisms and collateral materials for testing of Web technologies. In particular, tests developed as well as the testing framework should work on non-desktop devices such as mobile devices, web-enabled television sets etc.
The Group is holding a preliminary face-to-face meeting on October 28.
The mission of the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group, part of the Testing Activity, is to produce technologies for use in testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of Web applications running in Web browsers.
The Groups are effectively starting.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browser Testing and Tools Working Group (participants) | Wilhelm Joys Andersen | Michael(tm) Smith | Chartered until 31 December 2013 |
| Web Testing Interest Group (participants) | Philippe Le Hégaret, Wilhelm Joys Andersen | Michael(tm) Smith | Chartered until 31 December 2013 |
This Activity Statement was prepared for TPAC 2011 per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.
Michael Smith, Web Testing Activity LeadLast updated: 2009-10-01
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