Test report presentation using EARL RDF/XML notation

Abstract

Validation and testing tools generate a large variety of kinds of test reports. Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a format that provides the possibility of storing the information about who or what performed the test, what was tested, what were rules tested against and what the outcome of the test is. Inheriting from Resource Description Framework (RDF) and from Extensible Markup Language (XML) constitutes the best option for storing data for further machine processing in platform and vendor independent way. This article describes the implementation of an EARL exporting component of the accessibility validation tool AChecker.