10 September 2003 Notes:

Attendees:	Jose Santiago
		Ernie Wahl
		Jim Mosely
		Jim O'Reilly
		Dave Dowding

Business: Possibly three of us at ITC. More certain next week. Plan for now
	is to have a Tuesday conference call (around 9AM Pacific) and perhaps 
	other meetings at the conference. Tony indicated that P1450.6 meeting
	will be Monday morning (presentations on who/how CTL is being used.) Tony
	plans a 10 person face-to-face meeting for P1450.1 and .3 for Monday. We
	should try to not overlap their meetings.

Topic for today: Flow Control

Question: What is Flow Control "construct"? Is it a mechanism within a FlowNode?

Ernie:	Align Flow Control to what testers can do. Some testers can have n number
	of paths out of a test and others have two. Flow Control also covers 
	"subflows"

Jim O.:	Organization of subflows could also be organization rather than control of
	flow. (Hierarchical organization of flows) 

Jose:	Flow Control is defining a box or entity with input (entry) and output or
	exit... with other actions within the box. Some definitions and layers are
	contained there in. Similar to defining a process of steps for design tools...

Dave:	When defining Flow Control you can (should) be defining the FlowNode. 
Jim M.:	how do we enter, subflow characteristics.

Ernie:	The elements that represent a flow: Nodes, symbols, tests, binning
	(Symbols = decision point or communicate to/with externals)

Jose:	Start with a Node and the Ports
	Node has info for TestMethod
	Ports indicate entry/exit actions

Ernie:	much like AWK a Node should have a begin, a body, and a cleanup 
	portion (actions/activities) block. 
	So with a node, having entry actions then a test (call to a TestMethod)
	and then an exit action(s).

Dave:	There seems to be a lot of unity in this discussion on Flow Control
	as represented in the Flow Node. Taking the concept from a box or
	node with entry, body, and exit blocks. (Very close to the concept
	discussed earlier this year.) Proposed to continue defining the node
	and get a graphical view of this. Proposed to move together to define
	this as a group and gain a consensus of the concept, structure and view.