Re: [Exist-development] Reporting on QT3 test results for the 3.1 Specs

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

Hi,

> I notice eXist isn't included in this round of tests.  I'd be
> interested to know what are the barriers or obstacles to running the
> tests and participating in these exercises?

To start with, we would need a clean and reliable implementation of the test suite for XQ3.1 on eXist. There used to be one but I found it to report too many false or at least questionable results, so working through the reports was too tedious.

I estimate it would take me 2 to 3 weeks of concentrated (unpaid) work to implement the test suite and walk through the results to fix the obvious tiny issues, which I would expect to pop up. As you know we cannot afford that right now. It also doesn’t make sense to implement the test suite if nobody is ready to invest time to look into failures afterwards. So I rather spend my time improving the query engine. For specific features I already copied and pasted tests from the XQ3.1 suite into our local test suite though.

Wolfgang