This tutorial will introduce you to XSpec, the open-source framework for testing XSLT, XQuery, Schematron, and XProc. As an attendee, you should have experience with at least one of the 4 supported languages, but you do not need prior experience with XSpec.

In this tutorial, I'll explain what XSpec is and why one might want to use it. I'll show how to run an XSpec test at the command line or in Oxygen XML Editor, enabling you to follow along with demos and do exercises. After describing the language-independent high-level procedure for writing tests, I'll construct example tests for all 4 supported languages. These example demonstrations will include ways to express your data/documents to use during testing, multiple ways to express what you want the test to verify, and how to interpret the test report. A few short exercises will enable you to practice, hands on.