One of the deliverables specified in the Charter of the Web Services Addressing Working Group is a test suite intended to promote implementation of the Candidate Recommendation, and to assess interoperability between these implementations. The Working Group Charter also states that the Working Group is expected to demonstrate two interoperable implementations during the Call for Implementations step. It is anticipated that some, but not all of the testcases held within the test suite will be used to practically test implementations during an interoperability Workshop and thereby satisfy the entrance criteria for the Web Service Addressing specifications to enter the Proposed Recommendation stage.
The test suite will be maintained by the Working Group and remain available for regression testing beyond publication of the Web Addressing Recommendation, however it is not expected that the test suite will form a part of the Web Addressing Recommendation.
Conformance to the Web services Addressing 1.0 Metadata Test Suite does not by itself enable a party to claim conformance with the Web Services Addressing 1.0 Metadata binding specification. Not passing an individual test may be used as an indication that an implementation is likely not to conform to the Web Services Addressing 1.0 Metadata specification.
A Web Services Addressing implementation that passes all of the tests specified in this document may claim conformance to the Web Services Addressing 1.0 Metadata Test Suite (Release-Date).
The Test Suite contains:
The report and log files are currently restricted to W3C membership.
The testsuite currently consists of two simple operations:
It's suggested that implementers are optionally able to send the testcase identifier as the text of the message to assist debugging. In the cases where the message is intended to cause a fault, the testcase identifier can be sent in a string beginning with 'fault'.
A WSDL author may elect to describe the echo operation as either a single In-Out operation, or as a pair of one-way operations without impacting the actual messages exchanged.
This Test Suite comprises of a collection of testcases. Each test case is categorized using the following test case metadata:
The Test Suite consists entirely of voluntary contributions of tests from interested parties. We encourage all members of the community to consider contributing any tests they may have developed to the Test Suite.
Tests may be submitted to the Suite in the form of an Email sent to public-ws-addressing-tests@w3.org An archive is available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-addressing-tests Submitted testcases should be released to the Test Suite by completing the Test Case Grant II Form.
When contributing materials to the Test Suite, it is helpful if each individual test case cites the metadata such as the existing features and message exchanges exhibited in a format suitable for adding to testcases.xml. The submission should include complete examples of the messages exchanged as XML documents.
Where possible the tests should re-use existing operations and message exchanges, however the submission may also include details of any new scenarios which the test case exhibits, in which case providing any additional metadata such as WSDL 1.1 and WSDL 2.0 documents will be of value.
The test suite is in initial development. There is an interoperoperability event targetted for Mid July 2006.
The Test Suite will be periodically made available in the form of a single file:
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