Service Component Architecture (SCA) Test Artifacts (2) Namespace

August 9, 2010

Introduction

This document describes version 1.1 of the SCA Test Artifacts (2) namespace. It also contains a directory of links to related resources using the Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) 2.0.

Namespace URI Versioning Policy

The pattern of the SCA Assembly Test Artifacts (2) namespace URI is:

     http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/opencsa/scatests/yyyymm2

Where yyyymm is the century, year and month chosen by the TC for that version of the namespace URI.

It is the intent of the OASIS SCA-Assembly Technical Committee that the SCA namespace URI will not change arbitrarily with each subsequent revision of the corresponding WSDL or XML Schema documents but rather change only when a subsequent revision, published in conjunction with a Committee Draft, results in non-backwardly compatible changes from a previously published Committee Draft.

Under this policy, the following are examples of backwards compatible changes that would not result in assignment of a new namespace URI:

• addition of new global element, attribute, complexType and simpleType definitions
• addition of new operations within a WSDL portType or binding (along with the corresponding schema, message and part definitions)
• addition of new elements or attributes in locations covered by a previously specified wildcard
• modifications to the pattern facet of a type definition for which the value-space of the previous definition remains valid or for which the value-space of the preponderance of instance would remain valid
• modifications to the cardinality of elements for which the value-space of possible instance documents conformant to the previous revision of the schema would still be valid with regards to the revised cardinality rule

[Administrative note: As communicated 28-October-2009 in TC Process Policy Related Resources, the RDDL elements were removed from the namespace document template. Pending reconsideration of that decision, active maintenance of this namespace document is delayed. Meantime, per TC Process, URI references for anticipated and completed deliverables from TCs declaring or making use of the http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/opencsa/scatests/2009032 namespace are published on the public web pages of the OASIS Open CSA Member Section TCs. — TC Administration]

Related Resources for SCA Test Artifacts namespace

Normative References:

Normative References:

TestCase Suite Artifacts: