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From: ajm@seqp4.ORG (A.J.Madison)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: X Testing Consortium
Keywords: xtm
Message-ID: <676@seqp4.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 16:07:07 GMT
Organization: Sequoia Systems Inc., Marlboro, Mass.
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i am but a poor communications engineer, suddenly thrown onto doing the
qualification effort for a Motif portation onto our platform; alas, the 
dictates of working for a small company.  i am completely ignorant about
athena sets, writing scrollable arrow label widgets ( that's a joke :-),
etc. so please bear with me.

i do know about the test suite that comes with the source tape for 
Motif, and that will be the majority of my qualification effort.  there
are a couple of pieces of information that could greatly aid my efforts,
though.

a. there is mention made of a program called xtm, produced by the X
   Testing Consortium.  is this program available?  how can i contact
   the X Testing Consortium?  or, have i missed something along the
   way?

b. while the accompanying OSF documentation describes HOW to test Motif,
   it does not describe WHAT it is testing in Motif.  Has anyone out
   there already figured out What is being tested?  A test plan that 
   has one sentence in it: *run accompanying test suite* is not acceptable
   by my manager, the product assurance department, nor me.  When i say
   What, it can even be somewhat vague, such as: *running Xm Section 1
   tests will cover 90% of the widget functions* or riduculously 
   detailed, such as: *running Xm Section 1 InitSet test Scale_S1 exercises
   functions abc 3 times, bcd 2 times, and cde 4 times.  anyway, you
   get the idea.

any suggestions or answers would be greatly appreciated.

uunet!m2c.m2c.org!seqp4!ajm     A.J. Madison