From: Don Organ
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:33
AM
To: STIL. 4 (E-mail)
Subject: STIL.4 Teleconference
Meeting Minutes 3/11/2003
Conference Call
Minutes 3/11/2003
Ernie
Wahl,
Jim
O'Reilly
Dave
Dowding
Jim
Mosley
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Oops! Conflicts
prevented several from completion action items. So our previously indicated
agendais moot.
Dave: "Is there a
flowcharting standard I should be utilizing?" Answer: not that we know
about.
Dave is continuing
on his use case (#4).
Ernie: will need to
define some of the underlying routines - such as how do you standardize a
Contact Test (you could supply the superset of all the arguments needed). Don -
we could propose just a simple place-holder (with no arguments) - so people can
have it in their flow, but allow the final implementation to specify
it.
Jim O'Reilly: Some
questions I encountered - do we use the PatternExec as it is? or do we use its
contents as arguments to a FlowNode? Questions about descrepencies between the
PDF draft and Ernie's proposals - such as a Flow (a top-level FlowGroup). Also,
would like to have some FlowNodes that are accessible to be executed on demand,
but not otherwise a part of the test program. Likes the ability to have a
special-purpose flow being either a Test, a FlowNode or a
FlowGroup.
Jim Mosley: One of
the reasons you may want to have something located in a flow is to place it at a
certain place in the hierarchy - for example, if you have a Plot, you may wish
to place it close to the Test it is going to be executed on - even if the Plot
is not otherwise part of the test program.
Jim O'Reilly: Also
remember that graphical tools will represent this, and people will want to be
able to save their partial completed program (i.e. an incomplete
state).
Jim O'Reilly - on
pages 3 and 4 of the PDF - Ports in a FlowNode - you can do one of a) go to
another FlowNode, b) do a Bin or c) exit the flow group. Ernie's model has the
binning as part of the actions (instead of directed by the Flow). Jim would
like to be able to bin and continue - there was consensus on
this.
Next
Agenda
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Status on various
use-cases and action items
Discuss UseCase
#4.
-DVO-
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Don
Organ
Inovys Corporation
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