An idea by
Mei Wong posted in
Internet Software & Services
on 04 Aug, 2023
A representation dictates what something is and what you can do with it. A PNG file, a JSON document, C source code or a HTML file are accepted as inputs by different applications and operations. How do we know that that applications are interoperable and compatible? Representations can be inferred by the tests that they pass. This is similar to a type inferring programming language: we can build tests that represent high level qualities about applications and data formats. These are some high level examples that reason about the outputs or characteristics of programs or representations:
