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<h1>Taxonomy of tests</h1>
<p>A scheme with 5 different kinds of conformance tests of W3C specs,
organized in 2 families:</p>
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  <li><strong>conformance of Web content</strong>
    <ul class="none">
      <li><strong>1 syntactic (validator)</strong>
        <ul class="detail">
          <li><strong>testinput: content (file in
            html/xml/css/smil/svg/rdf...)</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testengine: grammar parser</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testmode: webform|run, automatic</strong></li>
          <li><em><strong>ex</strong></em><strong>: validator.w3.org,
            jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator</strong></li>
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      </li>
      <li><strong>2 semantic (evaluator)</strong>
        <ul class="detail">
          <li><strong>testinput: content (file in
            html/xml/css/smil/svg/rdf...)</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testengine: evaluator with builtin
          semantics</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testmode: webform|run, semi-automatic</strong></li>
          <li><em><strong>ex</strong></em><strong>: cast.org/bobby,
            validator.w3.org/checklink</strong></li>
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      </li>
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  <li><strong>conformance of tools/products (test suite)</strong>
    <ul class="none">
      <li><strong>3 content-driven</strong>
        <ul class="detail">
          <li><strong>testinput: tool (browser)</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testengine: content samples + logic</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testmode: webforms, manual</strong></li>
          <li><em><strong>ex</strong></em><strong>: w3.org/Style/CSS/Test,
            w3.org/math/testsuite</strong></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><strong>4 interface scenario</strong>
        <ul class="detail">
          <li><strong>testinput: tool (browser, convertor,
          editor)</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testengine: intructions + logic</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testmode: run, manual</strong></li>
          <li><em><strong>ex</strong></em><strong>:
            w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-ATAG10-EVAL-20000913/</strong></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><strong>5 program-based</strong>
        <ul class="detail">
          <li><strong>testinput: runtime library</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testengine: content samples + runtime test</strong></li>
          <li><strong>testmode: run, auto</strong></li>
          <li><em><strong>ex</strong></em><strong>: C DOM API,
            jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/</strong></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
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