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diff --git a/htdocs/docs/devel.html b/htdocs/docs/devel.html index 1afd6a7..ec9c282 100755 --- a/htdocs/docs/devel.html +++ b/htdocs/docs/devel.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: devel.html,v 1.17 2004-07-21 23:43:21 link Exp $" ---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2004-07-21 23:43:21 $" +<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: devel.html,v 1.18 2008-12-03 20:57:31 ot Exp $" +--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2008-12-03 20:57:31 $" --><!--#set var="title" value="Developer Documentation for The W3C Markup Validation Service" --><!--#set var="relroot" value="../" --><!--#include virtual="../header.html" --> @@ -59,8 +59,14 @@ Any changes to the service will attempt to maintain compatibility with a <a href="../dev/tests/">list of test cases</a>. </p> - <p>We are in the process of turning this (crude) list into a more manageable - testing framework.</p> + + <p>The validator has an <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/misc/testsuite/">automated test suite</a> which is used + frequently to check that no change has broken any feature or resurfaced a bug. Whenever possible, join a <em>test case</em> + with your patches.</p> + + <p><em>example</em>: for a patch for the detection of document encoding in the <head>, join as a test case a simple + HTML document with encoding information in the <head>, and another document without.</p> + <h4><a id="todo" name="todo"></a>TODO</h4> <p> |