Test descriptive data

Functional testing and environments that require extensive documentation often wish to associate data to test cases, such as a description for example. It would be desirable to work with other test case management projects and define a standard and shared xml test output. Applications to view the test results could be developed and managed separately from the test library. It would also allow the consistent management of multi-language systems. A system that has perl, Java, and C++ could have language-specific test frameworks, but share common test-reporting tools via the common xml test output.

Also, data attached to test cases could be used for auditing existing tests, managing dependencies, concurrency... Being able to associate data with the result of a test case, whether successful or not, would be very useful. You could attach data such as time to run, some structured output of a failure (list of expected values/list of actual values...)