Technical Team/Minutes/2017-09-26

Sept. 26, 2017

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Kate Stewart
• Uday Shankar
• Thomas Steenbergen
• Alexios Zavras
• Philippe Ombredanne
• Jack Manbeck

SPDX License Test Files

• Discussed different use cases
  • Test license scanner (original use case)
  • Test license code generator
  • Test license matching (e.g. individual text compared SPDX listed license using matching license guidelines)
• How to determine the expected outcome of a test
  • Use an SPDX file to describe expected output
  • File naming convention -
    • Restricts different more complex tests
  • Use a YAML file
    • May be difficult to find the specific files for test cases
• Tarball or files
  • Agree repository should use files
• File Naming convention
  • Do we use the directory to denote the test types?
• Next Week:
  • Agree on directory and file structure
  • Agree on any additional test data metadata format (e.g. YAML, JSON, SPDX, etc.)