Added section on submitting results and fixed references
authorSteve Speicher <sspeiche@gmail.com>
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:14:44 -0400
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Added section on submitting results and fixed references
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	<section id='abstract'>
	<p>The Linked Data Platform specification, informally LDP,
		describes the use of HTTP for accessing, updating, creating and
		deleting resources from servers that expose their resources as Linked
		Data. This document introduces the conditions that LDP servers must
		satisfy in order to be conformant with the specification and presents
		a common format for describing LDP test results.
		These test cases both illustrate the features of the specification and
		can be used for testing conformance. [[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]]</p>
	</section>

	<section id='sotd'>
      <p>
      <!--Empty. Nothing else to add.-->
      </p>
    </section>

	<section>
	<h2>Introduction</h2>
	<p>
		This document introduces a test suite that can be used to evaluate the
		conformance of LDP servers to the LDP specification
		[[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]]. The document also presents the design
		principles that guided the development of the test suite, a testing
		process, and a common format for describing test results.</p> 
	<p>The purpose of the test cases is to illustrate the
		specification features and to help in testing conformance. The
		provided set of test cases is "incomplete" in the sense that passing
		all the tests does not prove that a given system conforms to the LDP
		specification; failing a test does, however, prove that the system
		does not conform to the specification.</p>
	<p>The presented format is intended to facilitate the use of
		tests by LDP server developers, e.g., in a test harness, as well as
		the extension of the test suite with new tests. Developers can check
		the LDP Primer [[LDP-PRIMER]] for concrete examples of inputs and
		expected outputs that can be used for testing.
	</p>
	</section>

	<section>
	<h2>Design principles</h2>

	<section>
	<h3>Generic vs domain-specific servers</h3>
	<p>There will be two types of servers implementing the LDP
		specification:</p>
	<ul>
		<li>Generic storage systems that allow interacting with their
			resources by means of the LDP specification. These servers do not
			impose any restriction on LDPRs.</li>
		<li>Servers exposing their data using the LDP specification.
			These servers impose restrictions on LDPRs since they have an
			underlying business logic and data model.</li>
	</ul>
	<p>In order to cover both types of servers, there are some basic input 
		data and a way to  provide
		specific input data in the test suite. It is up to the evaluator to
		define specific input data for a certain server. Evaluators must
		include these input data along with the results when reporting the
		results of a certain server.</p>
	</section> 
	
	<section>
	<h3>Protocol evaluation vs data evaluation</h3>
	<p>The LDP specification includes restrictions on LDP servers at
		the protocol level and at the data level. Currently, the restrictions
		at the data level are minimal and servers are not forced to have a
		certain behavior when processing LDPR representations. Therefore, the
		test suite evaluates LDP servers mostly at a protocol level; the only
		exception is in the case of LDPCs, since they are required to include
		a <code>rdf:type</code>, containment and membership statements in their 
		representation.</p>
	<p>It is out of the scope of the test suite to test LDP servers in
		terms of the restrictions imposed by their underlying data models.</p>
	</section> 
	
	<section>
	<h3>Test suite coverage</h3>
	<p>
		The test suite covers those requirements present in the
		LDP specification of any compliance level: MUST, SHOULD and MAY. This
		set of absolute requirements identifies the core subset of the LDP
		specification,
		<dfn>LDP Core</dfn>
		from now on, and any LDP server that satisfies these absolute
		requirements will be an LDP Core conformant server.
	</p>
	<p>It is out of the scope of the test suite to test other levels
		of conformance in terms of optional capabilities (e.g., paging, patch formats).</p>
	<p>
		Furthermore, the LDP specification [[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]] contains
		a number of requirements that can not validated by automated means,
		these are identified in a coverage report for the [[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]].
		These requirements will need to be validated by some non-automatic method 
		and results evaluated.
	</p>
	</section>
	
	<section>
	<h3>Separation of results and assertions</h3>
	<p>Instead of defining expected results for tests, which will be
		dependent on specific implementations, we have defined the assertions
		to be made over test results. In order to successfully pass a test,
		all of the assertions must be satisfied.</p>
	<p>Separating test outputs and assertions has other benefits: it
		makes simpler to report tool results and assertions can be made by a
		third party.</p>
	</section>
	
	<section>
	<h3>Traceability of test cases</h3>
	<p>Any test case and its produced results and assertions should be
		related to those documents that are relevant for it (e.g.,
		specifications, uses cases, etc.).</p>
	</section>
	</section>

	<section>
	<h2>Testing process</h2>
	<p>The LDP Test Cases are defined in a location, within Java source code. [[LDP-TESTCASES]]
		Details about each individual test case, such as information about
		whether it can be executed by automated means, manual or client only,
		will be found in the Java source code annotations.
		Also in the Java source code annotations the status of each test case, such as approved by the LDP 
		Working Group, awaiting approval or not yet implemented.[[LDP-TESTSUITE-COVERAGE]]</p>
	<ol>
		<li>The person or agent in charge of executing the test cases in
			a specific LDP server will take the test case definitions and run
			every test case on the LDP server.  The execution of test
			cases must produce a test execution report for the LDP server, in RDF
			format, that contains for every test case: the specific inputs used
			during its execution, the produced outputs, and the assertion of
			whether the test case is passed. The test execution report must be
			supplied as defined in the document on implementation conformance reports. [[LDP-CONFORM]]</li>
		<li>A report generator software will take all the LDP server
			execution reports and will generate an implementation report that
			includes the results of all the LDP servers. [[LDP-CONFORM]]</li>
	</ol>
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	</p>
	
	<section>
	<h2>Submitting results</h2>
	<p>Here is a summary of the steps needed for an assertor to submit the compliance results for an implementation.</p>
	<ul>
		<li>Run the automated test suite [[LDP-TESTCASES]]</li>
		<li>Run the manual tests and update the results within the same EARL results file</li>
		<li>Email results file (at minimum) EARL file (Turtle preferred) to <a href="mailto:public-ldp-comments@w3.org">public-ldp-comments@w3.org</a>.  Be sure to indicate if this is intended to
		replace any previously submitted results.  It is also helpful to indicate if these are preliminary results and that plans are to submit additional progress in the future.</li>
	</ul>
	</section>
	
	</section>

	<section>
	<h2>Describing testing artifacts in RDF</h2>

	<section>
	<h3>Namespaces used</h3>
	<p>
		The following vocabularies are reused for describing the testing
		artifacts: DOAP (
		<code>doap</code>
		), Dublin Core (
		<code>dcterms</code>
		) [[DC11]], FOAF (
		<code>foaf</code>
		) [[FOAF]], and W3C Test Metadata (
		<code>td</code>
		) [[TEST-METADATA]].
	</p>
	<p>
		All the new required entities that are not covered by those
		vocabularies have been defined under a new namespace (
		<code>ldpt</code>
		), as well as the LDP test cases.
	</p>
	<p>Next we present the definition of these namespaces and of all
		the namespaces used in the examples.</p>
	<pre>dcterms: &lt;http://purl.org/dc/terms/&gt;
doap: &lt;http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#&gt;
earl: &lt;http://www.w3.org/ns/earl#&gt;
foaf: &lt;http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/&gt;
mf: &lt;http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/test-manifest#&gt;
rdfs: &lt;http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#&gt;
rdft: &lt;http://www.w3.org/ns/rdftest#&gt;
td: &lt;http://www.w3.org/2006/03/test-description#&gt;
ldpt: &lt;http://www.w3.org/ns/ldp/test#&gt;</pre> </section> 
   
   <section>
	<h3>Test case description</h3>
	<p>
		A
		<dfn id="dfn-test-case" title="test case">test case</dfn>
		is defined as an instance of the
		<code>td:TestCase</code>
		class and it can be further described using the following properties:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li><code>rdfs:label</code>. The human-readable label of the
			test.</li>
		<li><code>mf:name</code>. Like <code>rdfs:label</code> but less human
		focus.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:title</code>. The name of the test.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:description</code>. The description of the test.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:contributor</code>. The person (<code>foaf:Person</code>)
			contributing the test.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:subject</code>. The grouping of test or compliance level.</li>
		<li><code>td:reviewStatus</code>. The status of the test;
			possible status are: <code>td:unreviewed</code>, <code>td:approved</code>
			or <code>td:rejected</code>.</li>
		<li><code>rdfs:seeAlso</code>. A link to the specification it
			refers to.</li>
		<li><code>td:specificationReference</code>. An <a href="#dfn-excerpt">excerpt</a> (<code>tn:Excerpt</code>)
			of the specification that is relevant to the test.</li>
	</ul>

	<p>
		An
		<dfn id="dfn-excerpt" title="excerpt">excerpt</dfn>
		is defined as an instance of the
		<code>tn:Excerpt</code>
		class and it can be further described using the following properties:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li><code>rdfs:seeAlso</code>: The document where the excerpt is
			included.</li>
		<li><code>tn:includesText</code>. The excerpt from the document.</li>
	</ul>

	<p>The following example contains the description of one of the LDP
		test cases.</p>
	<pre class="example" id="test-case-example">ldpt:CommonResource-GetResource a td:TestCase;
         rdfs:label "CommonResource-GetResource";
         mf:name "CommonResource-GetResource";
         dcterms:title "GET on an LDPR";
         dcterms:description "Tests making a GET request on an existing LDPR";
         dcterms:contributor :RaulGarciaCastro;
         td:reviewStatus td:approved;
         rdfs:seeAlso &lt;http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp#ldpr-get-must&gt;;
         dcterms:subject "MUST" ;
         td:specificationReference [
             a tn:Excerpt;
             rdfs:seeAlso &lt;http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp#ldpr-get-must&gt;;
             tn:includesText "LDP servers MUST support the HTTP GET Method for LDPRs".
           ].

:RaulGarciaCastro a foaf:Person;
                    rdfs:label "Raúl García-Castro";
                    owl:sameAs &lt;http://www.garcia-castro.com/#me&gt;.</pre> 
    </section>
    
 
	<section>
	<h3>
		Test case assertion description
	</h3>
	<p>
		An
		<dfn id="dfn-assertion" title="assertion">assertion</dfn>
		is defined as an instance of the
		<code>earl:Assertion</code>
		class and it can be further described using the following properties:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li><code>earl:subject</code>.The subject (<code>doap:Project</code>)
			asserted.</li>
		<li><code>earl:test</code>. The <a href="#dfn-test-case">test
				case</a> (<code>td:TestCase</code>) to which the assertion refers to.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:date</code>. The date when the assertion was
			performed.</li>
		<li><code>earl:assertedBy</code>. The validator (<code>doap:Project</code>)
			that makes the assertion.</li>
		<li><code>earl:mode</code>. The execution mode of the validator. In this case it will always be
			<code>earl:automatic</code>.</li>
		<li><code>earl:result</code>. The outcome value (<code>earl:OutcomeValue</code>)
			of the assertion.</li>
	</ul>
	<p>The following example contains the description of one test
		assertion.</p>
	<pre class="example" id="test-assertion-example">:TCR1-Assertion-SomeServer a earl:Assertion;
	earl:subject :AwesomeLDP;
	earl:test ldpt:CommonResource-GetResource;
	earl:assertedBy :AwesomeLDP;
	earl:mode:  earl:automatic;
	earl:result [
		a earl:OutcomeValue ;
		dcterms:date "2014-07-06T09:30:10";
		earl:outcome earl:passed
    ].

:AwesomeLDP a doap:Project, earl:TestSubject, earl:Software, earl:Assertor;
	doap:name "Awesome LDP";
	doap:description "Awesome LDP implementation";
	doap:developer    [ a	foaf:Person ;
						foaf:mbox  "awesomeldp@example.org" ;
						foaf:name  "Dope Developer"
                      ];
	doap:homepage	&lt;http://example.org/AwesomeLDP&gt;;
	doap:programming-language "JavaScript".</pre> 
            
    </section>
    </section>
	</section>
	</section>

	<section class="appendix">
	<h2>Change history</h2>
	<ul>
		<li>2014-07-08 Various grammar fixes and removed todos (SS)</li>
		<li>2014-07-07 Further alignment with current testing approach and namespaces (SS)</li>
		<li>2014-06-22 Brought inline with separate automated testsuite hosted on GitHub (SS)</li>
		<li>2014-04-09 Updated according to Last Call Working Draft from 11 March 2014 (FS and RGC)</li>
		<li>2013-08-27 Updated according to Last Call Working Draft from 30 July 2013 (RGC)</li>
		<li>2013-06-03 Updated to use ReSpec (RGC)</li>
		<li>2013-06-03 Implemented <a
			href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ldp-wg/2013May/0153.html">changes
				suggested by Eric Prud'hommeaux</a> (RGC)
		</li>
	</ul>
	</section>

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	<section id='abstract'>
	<p>The Linked Data Platform specification, informally LDP,
		describes the use of HTTP for accessing, updating, creating and
		deleting resources from servers that expose their resources as Linked
		Data. This document introduces the conditions that LDP servers must
		satisfy in order to be conformant with the specification and presents
		a common format for describing LDP test results.
		These test cases both illustrate the features of the specification and
		can be used for testing conformance. [[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]]</p>
	</section>

	<section id='sotd'>
      <p>
      <!--Empty. Nothing else to add.-->
      </p>
    </section>

	<section>
	<h2>Introduction</h2>
	<p>
		This document introduces a test suite that can be used to evaluate the
		conformance of LDP servers to the LDP specification
		[[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]]. The document also presents the design
		principles that guided the development of the test suite, a testing
		process, and a common format for describing test results.</p> 
	<p>The purpose of the test cases is to illustrate the
		specification features and to help in testing conformance. The
		provided set of test cases is "incomplete" in the sense that passing
		all the tests does not prove that a given system conforms to the LDP
		specification; failing a test does, however, prove that the system
		does not conform to the specification.</p>
	<p>The presented format is intended to facilitate the use of
		tests by LDP server developers, e.g., in a test harness, as well as
		the extension of the test suite with new tests. Developers can check
		the LDP Primer [[LDP-PRIMER]] for concrete examples of inputs and
		expected outputs that can be used for testing.
	</p>
	</section>

	<section>
	<h2>Design principles</h2>

	<section>
	<h3>Generic vs domain-specific servers</h3>
	<p>There will be two types of servers implementing the LDP
		specification:</p>
	<ul>
		<li>Generic storage systems that allow interacting with their
			resources by means of the LDP specification. These servers do not
			impose any restriction on LDPRs.</li>
		<li>Servers exposing their data using the LDP specification.
			These servers impose restrictions on LDPRs since they have an
			underlying business logic and data model.</li>
	</ul>
	<p>In order to cover both types of servers, there are some basic input 
		data and a way to  provide
		specific input data in the test suite. It is up to the evaluator to
		define specific input data for a certain server. Evaluators must
		include these input data along with the results when reporting the
		results of a certain server.</p>
	</section> 
	
	<section>
	<h3>Protocol evaluation vs data evaluation</h3>
	<p>The LDP specification includes restrictions on LDP servers at
		the protocol level and at the data level. Currently, the restrictions
		at the data level are minimal and servers are not forced to have a
		certain behavior when processing LDPR representations. Therefore, the
		test suite evaluates LDP servers mostly at a protocol level; the only
		exception is in the case of LDPCs, since they are required to include
		a <code>rdf:type</code>, containment and membership statements in their 
		representation.</p>
	<p>It is out of the scope of the test suite to test LDP servers in
		terms of the restrictions imposed by their underlying data models.</p>
	</section> 
	
	<section>
	<h3>Test suite coverage</h3>
	<p>
		The test suite covers those requirements present in the
		LDP specification of any compliance level: MUST, SHOULD and MAY. This
		set of absolute requirements identifies the core subset of the LDP
		specification,
		<dfn>LDP Core</dfn>
		from now on, and any LDP server that satisfies these absolute
		requirements will be an LDP Core conformant server.
	</p>
	<p>It is out of the scope of the test suite to test other levels
		of conformance in terms of optional capabilities (e.g., paging, patch formats).</p>
	<p>
		Furthermore, the LDP specification [[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]] contains
		a number of requirements that can not validated by automated means,
		these are identified in a coverage report for the [[LINKED-DATA-PLATFORM]].
		These requirements will need to be validated by some non-automatic method 
		and results evaluated.
	</p>
	</section>
	
	<section>
	<h3>Separation of results and assertions</h3>
	<p>Instead of defining expected results for tests, which will be
		dependent on specific implementations, we have defined the assertions
		to be made over test results. In order to successfully pass a test,
		all of the assertions must be satisfied.</p>
	<p>Separating test outputs and assertions has other benefits: it
		makes simpler to report tool results and assertions can be made by a
		third party.</p>
	</section>
	
	<section>
	<h3>Traceability of test cases</h3>
	<p>Any test case and its produced results and assertions should be
		related to those documents that are relevant for it (e.g.,
		specifications, uses cases, etc.).</p>
	</section>
	</section>

	<section>
	<h2>Testing process</h2>
	<p>The LDP Test Cases are defined in a location, within Java source code. [[LDP-TESTCASES]]
		Details about each individual test case, such as information about
		whether it can be executed by automated means, manual or client only,
		will be found in the Java source code annotations.
		Also in the Java source code annotations the status of each test case, such as approved by the LDP 
		Working Group, awaiting approval or not yet implemented.[[LDP-TESTSUITE-COVERAGE]]</p>
	<ol>
		<li>The person or agent in charge of executing the test cases in
			a specific LDP server will take the test case definitions and run
			every test case on the LDP server.  The execution of test
			cases must produce a test execution report for the LDP server, in RDF
			format, that contains for every test case: the specific inputs used
			during its execution, the produced outputs, and the assertion of
			whether the test case is passed. The test execution report must be
			supplied as defined in the document on implementation conformance reports. [[LDP-CONFORM]]</li>
		<li>A report generator software will take all the LDP server
			execution reports and will generate an implementation report that
			includes the results of all the LDP servers. [[LDP-CONFORM]]</li>
	</ol>
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	</p>
	
	<section>
	<h2>Submitting results</h2>
	<p>Here is a summary of the steps needed for an assertor to submit the compliance results for an implementation.</p>
	<ul>
		<li>Run the automated test suite [[LDP-TESTCASES]]</li>
		<li>Run the manual tests and update the results within the same EARL results file</li>
		<li>Email results file (at minimum) EARL file (Turtle preferred) to <a href="mailto:public-ldp-comments@w3.org">public-ldp-comments@w3.org</a>.  Be sure to indicate if this is intended to
		replace any previously submitted results.  It is also helpful to indicate if these are preliminary results and that plans are to submit additional progress in the future.</li>
	</ul>
	</section>
	
	</section>

	<section>
	<h2>Describing testing artifacts in RDF</h2>

	<section>
	<h3>Namespaces used</h3>
	<p>
		The following vocabularies are reused for describing the testing
		artifacts: DOAP (
		<code>doap</code>
		), Dublin Core (
		<code>dcterms</code>
		) [[DC11]], FOAF (
		<code>foaf</code>
		) [[FOAF]], and W3C Test Metadata (
		<code>td</code>
		) [[TEST-METADATA]].
	</p>
	<p>
		All the new required entities that are not covered by those
		vocabularies have been defined under a new namespace (
		<code>ldpt</code>
		), as well as the LDP test cases.
	</p>
	<p>Next we present the definition of these namespaces and of all
		the namespaces used in the examples.</p>
	<pre>dcterms: &lt;http://purl.org/dc/terms/&gt;
doap: &lt;http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#&gt;
earl: &lt;http://www.w3.org/ns/earl#&gt;
foaf: &lt;http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/&gt;
mf: &lt;http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/test-manifest#&gt;
rdfs: &lt;http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#&gt;
rdft: &lt;http://www.w3.org/ns/rdftest#&gt;
td: &lt;http://www.w3.org/2006/03/test-description#&gt;
ldpt: &lt;http://www.w3.org/ns/ldp/test#&gt;</pre> </section> 
   
   <section>
	<h3>Test case description</h3>
	<p>
		A
		<dfn id="dfn-test-case" title="test case">test case</dfn>
		is defined as an instance of the
		<code>td:TestCase</code>
		class and it can be further described using the following properties:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li><code>rdfs:label</code>. The human-readable label of the
			test.</li>
		<li><code>mf:name</code>. Like <code>rdfs:label</code> but less human
		focus.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:title</code>. The name of the test.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:description</code>. The description of the test.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:contributor</code>. The person (<code>foaf:Person</code>)
			contributing the test.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:subject</code>. The grouping of test or compliance level.</li>
		<li><code>td:reviewStatus</code>. The status of the test;
			possible status are: <code>td:unreviewed</code>, <code>td:approved</code>
			or <code>td:rejected</code>.</li>
		<li><code>rdfs:seeAlso</code>. A link to the specification it
			refers to.</li>
		<li><code>td:specificationReference</code>. An <a href="#dfn-excerpt">excerpt</a> (<code>tn:Excerpt</code>)
			of the specification that is relevant to the test.</li>
	</ul>

	<p>
		An
		<dfn id="dfn-excerpt" title="excerpt">excerpt</dfn>
		is defined as an instance of the
		<code>tn:Excerpt</code>
		class and it can be further described using the following properties:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li><code>rdfs:seeAlso</code>: The document where the excerpt is
			included.</li>
		<li><code>tn:includesText</code>. The excerpt from the document.</li>
	</ul>

	<p>The following example contains the description of one of the LDP
		test cases.</p>
	<pre class="example" id="test-case-example">ldpt:CommonResource-GetResource a td:TestCase;
         rdfs:label "CommonResource-GetResource";
         mf:name "CommonResource-GetResource";
         dcterms:title "GET on an LDPR";
         dcterms:description "Tests making a GET request on an existing LDPR";
         dcterms:contributor :RaulGarciaCastro;
         td:reviewStatus td:approved;
         rdfs:seeAlso &lt;http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp#ldpr-get-must&gt;;
         dcterms:subject "MUST" ;
         td:specificationReference [
             a tn:Excerpt;
             rdfs:seeAlso &lt;http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp#ldpr-get-must&gt;;
             tn:includesText "LDP servers MUST support the HTTP GET Method for LDPRs".
           ].

:RaulGarciaCastro a foaf:Person;
                    rdfs:label "Raúl García-Castro";
                    owl:sameAs &lt;http://www.garcia-castro.com/#me&gt;.</pre> 
    </section>
    
 
	<section>
	<h3>
		Test case assertion description
	</h3>
	<p>
		An
		<dfn id="dfn-assertion" title="assertion">assertion</dfn>
		is defined as an instance of the
		<code>earl:Assertion</code>
		class and it can be further described using the following properties:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li><code>earl:subject</code>.The subject (<code>doap:Project</code>)
			asserted.</li>
		<li><code>earl:test</code>. The <a href="#dfn-test-case">test
				case</a> (<code>td:TestCase</code>) to which the assertion refers to.</li>
		<li><code>dcterms:date</code>. The date when the assertion was
			performed.</li>
		<li><code>earl:assertedBy</code>. The validator (<code>doap:Project</code>)
			that makes the assertion.</li>
		<li><code>earl:mode</code>. The execution mode of the validator. In this case it will always be
			<code>earl:automatic</code>.</li>
		<li><code>earl:result</code>. The outcome value (<code>earl:OutcomeValue</code>)
			of the assertion.</li>
	</ul>
	<p>The following example contains the description of one test
		assertion.</p>
	<pre class="example" id="test-assertion-example">:TCR1-Assertion-SomeServer a earl:Assertion;
	earl:subject :AwesomeLDP;
	earl:test ldpt:CommonResource-GetResource;
	earl:assertedBy :AwesomeLDP;
	earl:mode:  earl:automatic;
	earl:result [
		a earl:OutcomeValue ;
		dcterms:date "2014-07-06T09:30:10";
		earl:outcome earl:passed
    ].

:AwesomeLDP a doap:Project, earl:TestSubject, earl:Software, earl:Assertor;
	doap:name "Awesome LDP";
	doap:description "Awesome LDP implementation";
	doap:developer    [ a	foaf:Person ;
						foaf:mbox  "awesomeldp@example.org" ;
						foaf:name  "Dope Developer"
                      ];
	doap:homepage	&lt;http://example.org/AwesomeLDP&gt;;
	doap:programming-language "JavaScript".</pre> 
            
    </section>
    </section>
	</section>
	</section>

	<section class="appendix">
	<h2>Change history</h2>
	<ul>
		<li>2014-08-25 Added section on submitting results and fixed references (SS)</li>	
		<li>2014-07-08 Various grammar fixes and removed todos (SS)</li>
		<li>2014-07-07 Further alignment with current testing approach and namespaces (SS)</li>
		<li>2014-06-22 Brought inline with separate automated testsuite hosted on GitHub (SS)</li>
		<li>2014-04-09 Updated according to Last Call Working Draft from 11 March 2014 (FS and RGC)</li>
		<li>2013-08-27 Updated according to Last Call Working Draft from 30 July 2013 (RGC)</li>
		<li>2013-06-03 Updated to use ReSpec (RGC)</li>
		<li>2013-06-03 Implemented <a
			href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ldp-wg/2013May/0153.html">changes
				suggested by Eric Prud'hommeaux</a> (RGC)
		</li>
	</ul>
	</section>

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