Tony is glad to see the use-case, and is encouraging his to have a tutorial/example section in the specification. Dave doesn't feel the first use-cases would be the right use-case, but likes/supports the idea. Another question from Tony is whether we would have a graphical representation of the flow. Dave supports this as well, but feels we should not be proposing any graphical standard.

Jim O'Reilly - would like to include an example (as in the 1999 spec) and then dissect it.

 

henrnburg@att.net (I might not have it spelled correctly here) - this email is bouncing from the reflector.

Starting in March, the conference call meeting id will be: 14504

Ernie started writing code for Dave's UseCase. Some things (such as binning) haven't yet been addressed, other aspects of the specification are not fully consistent. His files:

ExampleCode.asc - an example application

Syntax.asc - this is Ernie's ideas regarding the syntax - expected to be roughly consistent with the proposal

Defaults.asc - shows how defaults can be used

Keywords.asc - just a list of keywords

Walk through Syntax.asc: PassBinMap|FailBinMap - separate binmaps to facilitate targetting to some existing test systems. The Axis - generally a single Axis for failures, but may have multiples for passing (speed, power supply, cached/cacheless). For each element in this N-dimensional array, you must have a hard bin (can be the same at different elements).

FlowNode - somewhat different from what is in the document. The execute portion is the same. However, could pass in a speed bin as an argument - and call the same test object over and over for different speed bins. The method_id allows direct instantiation of a TestMethod. Ports - trying to match up to Don's "horizontal slice". The Method Test - various types of Methods (including Test, Group and Flow). Has In, InOut and Out parameters. Modifier mutable (means non-constant). Ports - limited to Pass/Fail (unlike the FlowNode). User-defined Method (externally defined) may have inheritance. At the bottom is the test method instantiation.

Next time, let's continue with the defaults.