Test the Web ForwardPast, Present & Future

Agenda

• 2012 Recap - 5 min
• Planned Next Steps - 5 min
• Moderated Group Discussion - 30 min
  • Expanding Events
  • TestTWF & Other Community Efforts
• Additional Discussion Topics - 10 min

TestTWF Objectives

• Bring testing and developer communities together
• Recruit into the standards testing community
• Teach how to write tests and log bugs
• Add to W3C test suites
• Keep community engaged throughout the year

2012 Events

San Francisco, CA, USA June 15 + 16

Beijing, China October 20 + 21

Paris, France October 26 + 27

San Francisco Highlights

• ~70 Attendees, ~20 Experts
• Talks:
  • W3C Testing: Lay of the Land
  • SVG Testing
  • CSS Testing Tools
  • How to Write W3C Tests
  • Filing the Best Bugs
• Specs Featured: CSS Transforms, SVG, CSS Backgrounds & Borders, CSSOM
• ~90 Tests written
• Logged several browser, spec, and test harness bugs

Beijing Highlights

• 134 Attendees, 21 Experts
• Talks:
  • How to Write a W3C Test
  • W3C Testing Framework
• Specs Featured: CSS Flex Box, CSS Backgrounds & Borders, CSSOM
• 115 tests written
• Submitted 12 browser bugs

Paris Highlights

• 130 Attendees, ~35 Experts
• Talks:
  • How to Read a Spec
  • How to Write a Reftest
  • testharness.js Overview
  • Filing the Best Bugs
• Tests written for 13 specs: HTML5, WebApps, CSS
• Apache Cordova suite -> W3C tests
• ~400 tests written

Proposed Next Steps

• Quarterly large events
• More frequent Meetups
• Create TestTWF Kit to make events easy to organize
• Make test authoring & review easier
• Expand Infrastructure
  • Website
  • Training videos
  • Examples
  • Testing tools

Possible Quarterly Events

• Sydney -February (SVG F2F)
• Tokyo - June 2013 (CSS WG F2F)
• Delhi – suggested by W3C India
• US - October (W3C TPAC)

Call to Action!

• Organize a TestTWF event and/or Meetup
• Help promote & evangelize events
• Sign up as an Expert & travel to events
• Other opportunities: sponsorship, provide venue, schwag, etc.

Discussion Expanding Events

How can we increase attendance at events?

• News on Web Platform Docs and W3C web site
• Partners tweet and promote the event on their developer web sites
• Create specialized events
• Engage Universities

Discussion Expanding Events

Ideas for Meetup topics?

• Deep-dive on a single spec
• Identifying spec bugs & reporting them
• Case study: Developer challenges when encountering browser bugs
• “Reviewathon”
• Expert Meetups
• Improving testing tools

Discussion TestTWF + Other Community Efforts

Should TestTWF become part of the community efforts under Webplatform.org?

We hope to develop a system for meetup & community facilitation that could be picked up by WebPlatform.org as an early part of its Testing agenda

Discussion TestTWF + Other Community Efforts

Should we associate big TestTWF events with W3C events or separate them?

• Associate the big TestTWF events with W3C WG meetings or events (such as TPAC).
• Also organize the events around major conferences (e.g., JSConf EU). Thoughts?

Discussion

Other Topics?

Call to Action!

• Sign up to host a TestTWF event and/or Meetups
• Help promote & evangelize events
• Sign up as an Expert & travel to events
• Other opportunities: sponsorship, provide venue, schwag, etc.

Let us know how you can help!

Contact us:

testthewebforward@gmail.com