Minutes for 4/19/2002 STIL.4 teleconference

Attendees
Dave Dowding
Daniel Fan
Don Organ
Tom Micek
Ernie Wahl
Doug Sprague
Jose Santiago
Jim O'Reilly
Jim Mosley

Dave will publish an agenda by Wednesday preceeding the meeting
Don will be initiating a locally maintained Web-page

Agenda:
- Motorola and Inovys (and others) to do a sub-group for multisite. Approved. Tom will head this.

Dave - Proposal to focus on doing a specific set of components and functions without going too deep. We need to partition into components.

First pass list of components:
Flow block diagram (declarative)
Binning Maps
Multisite
Concurrency
TestMethods interface
Pass/Fail
Control Mechanism (such as by test options)
Ernie's list (see http://www.ltx-tr.com/STIL/A/group4/index.html)
    Nesting/encapsulation
    Entry points
    Inheritance (C++ style, STIL style)
    Test containment, & hierarchy (pre-, post-actions and arbiter, testflow, testblock, testflow node, binmap)
    Variables - mathematical expressions and logical expressions
    Actions (test/testflow-node related): Assign, Bin, execute (conditionally execute a test)

Jim Mosley:
    for pre and post actions, have ability to use an equation (we may be able to leverage what is in the base standard)

Jim O'Reilly
    I see the value in having multiple bin-maps, I see no reason for separating the pass-bin-maps from the fail-bin-maps. So this should be a future topic.

Dave
    Test and Testblock Ids. (also decision nodes?)

Jim O'Reilly
    C-like flow control constructs (looping, if) - are these special types of flownodes?

Jim Mosley
    Decision points in a floew - we will need more than 2 exit ports

Next call's objective - how to get a working plan in place to go through each of these.