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Subject: RE: New Member Introduction


Welcome Dennis:

Your long track record in the field gives weight to your interest in
what the TAG is doing !

Next meeting will be Tuesday June 23rd, 3pmPT.

The latest draft of TAG guidelines is about to go into 60-day public
review - so comments are welcome ...

The focus of the TC is now about the XML markup.

Mark-up material can be accessed from our wiki (link is on our TC home
page): 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/tag/FrontPage

See in particular the "Test Assertions mark-up" section.
- In the mark-up issue list: Proposal #3 for issue 001, and Proposal #2
for issue 002, are in force today.
- the "XML Mark-up Ddrafts " link points to material that is not
up-to-date, but still gives an idea. (in particular, multiple
occurrences for Target, Prerequisite and Predicate are no longer allowed
in a single TA.)

Regards,
Jacques


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:14 AM
To: Jacques R. Durand; 'TAG TC'
Subject: New Member Introduction

Hello,

Allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Dennis Hamilton.

I am a new member of the TAG TC.  I look forward to participating on the
next TC Meeting call on 2009-06-23.

I have corresponded with some of you with regard to the OASIS ODF
Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) TC reliance on the Test Assertion
Guidelines as part of the guidelines that we are charged with producing
with regard to ODF format, consumer, producer, and processor testing.

I have been nominated to serve as the OIC TC liaison to the TAG TC (to
be finalized on our next meeting call, 2009-06-17.  You might want to
consider reciprocating, using myself or another member of the TAG TC who
is willing to also be a member of the OIC TC (preferable - we can always
use more members [;<).

With regard to my interest in the TAG subject matter, I was awakened to
the possibilities and the work that has been done in the area of testing
by a presentation of David Marston.  Historically, I was part of one of
the early efforts to create a software testing and assurance team at
Remington Rand Univac around 1961.  I hated it then and, as a
22-year-old hacker, certainly resisted it.  Although I did testing and
acceptance of a Fortran compiler for a small computer system (in
capacity, not tonnage), it was a rather random process and the quality
was assured more by its Donald Knuth, Joe Speroni, and William C. Lynch
authorship than my ministrations.  (I found few bugs, but a couple were
wonderful howlers.)

Although my recent career has been focused on electronic documents,
document management, and document processing, I also have increased my
interest in software engineering and the development of dependable
systems in that and other contexts.  With what little maturity I have
gained comes a steadfastness around rigor, accountability, and
demonstrability of trustworthiness (not so much schedule, but code
quality) in the delivery of computer software.  So the information on
the great progress that Test Assertions reflects reached my attention at
just the right time.  

I look forward to this opportunity to contribute to application and
acceptance of the Test Assertion Guidelines.

 - Dennis

Dennis E. Hamilton
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