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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>
<ol class="withroman">
<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>
</ul>
</li>
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</li>
<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>
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<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>
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