From: owner-stds-1450-4@majordomo.ieee.org on behalf of Don Organ
[don.organ@inovys.com]
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 11:03
AM
To: STIL. 4
Subject: stds-1450.4: STIL.4 Teleconference
minutes 8/23/2002
August 23,
2002
Jim
O'Reilly
Don
Organ
Tom
Micek
Dave
Dowding
Larry
Moran
Daniel
Fan
Ernie
Wahl
Dave:
We can try
WebEx during the next meeting
Agenda
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ITC Status
Continue with May
14th "Flow Control Issues" item #5.
ITC
Status
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Dave hopes to be able to
arrange for a room within an Agilent suite for the Monday - all day. He needs to
conclude some more arrangements and then will sound out an arrangement. This is
being coordinated with the other 1450 groups (there will be a .1 and a .3
meeting, as well as a general 1450 status meeting open to the
industry).
Flow Control Issues
- item #5
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Define TestMethod as a
(abstract) interface for a known test thing (I'll try to recapture the
definition). TestMethods can potentially be
hierarchical.
The specific question is: "In whatever box the
TestMethod is called from, is it possible to call more than one TestMethod?" There is no compelling requirement
here.
Ernie feels it is inappropriate because this is
unnecessary and somewhat contrary to his pre and post action
concepts.
#6 - Is there a restriction on the number of output arcs
from a FlowNode?
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There should not be any restriction on the number of
output arcs from a FlowNode.
#7 - How do Ernie's concepts of pre-action and post-action
and arbiter fit in?
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From Ernie:
pre-action and post-action are both each - each can be more than one
action.
There is only one
pre-action. There can be multiple post-actions - depending on whether the
actions are associated with a FlowNode or with a Test - generally there is one
pre-action per port.
Arbiters are
associated with a Test (only) and is responsible for determining if the test
passed or failed.
It is still an open
issue as whether we will generalize this abstraction of having the arbiter be
responsible for interpretting the test result and determining control
flow.
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Dave - our next call
is on Sept 6th. We will be using WebEx. Dave will announce a "shake-out" trial
session sometime before our next regularly schedule meeting - probably next
Friday.
-DVO-
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