From: owner-stds-1450-4@majordomo.ieee.org on behalf of Don Organ [don.organ@inovys.com]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:02 AM
To: STIL. 4
Subject: stds-1450.4: STIL.4 - minutes of 4/5/2002 teleconference
STIL.4 teleconference on 4/5/2002
 
Dave Dowding
Tom Micek
Daniel Fan
Don Organ
Ernie Wahl
Jim O'Reilly
Jim Mosley
 
 
Tom - To generate an email regarding parallel test
 
Ernie: reviewing the 1450.4 document. My definitions are very different.
Jim O'Reilly: don't take the earlier document as being "cast in concrete", it provides a good starting point (but it is only a starting point).
Tom: we could capture our ideas into a "standard document" (a working draft) and keep that current.
Ernie: we could extend that to capture even issues that aren't resolved.
Don: we can maintain 2 different documents - a working draft and a proposals
Jim Mosley: would like a hierarchy categorization of the different concepts as we put together the document (the working draft)
Daniel Fan: for example, separate flow from bin, from parallel test (multisite testing)
Dave: also for the TestMethod interface (1450.5). We'd like to get the 1450.5 effort started.
Ernie: a question about the scope - some initial proposals include characterization. That may be beyond our scope - since it is not part of a test program interchange. Having characterization in our scope may delay our other work.
Dave: however, we do need to bump into this to determine where the interface is. Also, some people may require special modes in their flow to support characterization, but most integrate well with the rest of the test program (and requires some support from the test methodology).
Ernie: exploring is Ok. We can have a structure that doesn't impede characterization, but trying to fully support characterization will require a lot of work.
 
Regarding the emails earlier this week.
Jim O'Reilly: I didn't understand the differences between a test, a test block and a test flownode.
Ernie: refer to this from 1998 (http://www.ltx-tr.com/STIL/A/group4/index.html) see the "testflow.pdf" which is a diagram. (He talked us through the diagram and answered several questions).
 
 
Action Items:
Tom - send ideas regarding parallel test
Dave - to post Don's example stil file on Web site
Don & Dave to talk to Greg Maston - regarding updating Web site
Don - to start the working draft
Dave - to copy the PDF files that we refered today off of the LTX web site.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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