RSS Feeds For The QA Focus Web Site

RSS Feeds For QA Focus Resources

RSS files are available for the key QA Focus resources. This allows the resources to by syndicated, by embedded them on remote Web sites

RSS files are available for the following areas:

• Briefing documents
• Case studies
• Papers
• Presentations
• Surveys

OPML Files

OPML files are available which allow groups of RSS files to be managed collectively. The following OPML files are available:

• OPML file for Briefing Documents
• OPML file for Case Studies
• OPML file for Papers
• OPML file for Presentations

 

Embedding Content In Your Own Web Site

The RSS and OPML files can be accessed using dedicated RSS viewers. In addition you may wish to embed the content within your own Web site.

Further Information About OPML

Further information about OPML is available.

It should be noted that, as described in Wikipedia, OPML has various shortcomings (e.g. OPML stores data in XML attributes, which violates a common XML design principle and due to the arbitrary nature of the "type" attribute and the acceptance of arbitrary attributes on "outline" elements, interoperability of OPML documents relies almost entirely on the undocumented conventions of content producers.) This OPML service should, therefore be regarded as experimental, is not guaranteed to be interoperable and the file is liable to be removed without notice.

Quality Assurance For The RSS Feeds

The following quality assurance policies and procedures have been developed for the RSS feeds.

• We will endeavour to ensure that the URLs of this page and of the RSS feeds are persistent until at least 2008.
• We will validate the RSS files when they are created or updated.
• We will make use of simple, clean RSS in order to ensure the feeds can be used in a wide range of RSS readers.
• We will seek to ensure that the titles and descriptions are kept to a consistent length and style.
• We will seek to ensure that the content of the RSS feeds is accurate and appropriate.

Technical Architecture For The RSS Feeds

The RSS feeds listed above are in RSS 2.0 format. They are created by hand using a simple text editor.

The OPML files listed above are also created by hand using a simple text editor.

Changes

20 July 2011

Removed links to Grazr OPML viewer. Brian Kelly.