[Testing] organizing test cases (was "Are these wiki pages old/depreciated?")

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Gary C Martin wrote:

> 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tests/Activity/Chat
> ...which auto pulls in any other Chat test cases (there happen to be  
> two others) into that single page:
> 
> Think it's very useful for testers to hit one known location [[Tests/ 
> Activity/Chat]] and see all the cases they may want to run through.

Yes you could put a similar query in pages in the "path" to other test 
cases.  Maybe you could make it a generic query using MediaWiki 
{{#expr:}} magic to get the system component from the end of the path in 
the title.   BUT:

* It's not very discoverable.  (I'm not sure why the breadcrumb at the 
top of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tests/Activity/Chat/Private_chat shows 
just    < Tests  and not    < Tests < Activity < Chat .)
* In general, more pages means more confusion.

Instead as Joe suggested, just browse [[:Category:Test cases]] to find 
test cases.  You can also browse 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Test_category and 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0 which also organize test cases.


There are three overlapping ways to organize test cases:
1. Subpages in the title, such as Tests / Activity / Chat / Private_chat
2. Subcategories of Category:Test cases
3. Property:Test category and Property:Test subcategory (these are 
actually not MediaWiki categories)

Unfortunately we can't just use 1, as MediaWiki won't show you subpages 
and Semantic MediaWiki can't query for subpages.  It might be possible 
to scrap 3 and just use subcategories, but Semantic Forms doesn't make 
it easy.

( We have the atomic screwdriver, ACME Rocket Sled, and Babelfish, yet 
the tools still don't do what we want  8-/  )

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