TAG TC 2011-01-25 Meeting Minutes

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC Teleconference Meeting

Logistics:
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Tuesday 2pm (PDT), 22:00Z, 25 January 2011

Host confcall: Fujitsu
US Toll Free: 877-995-3314
US Toll/International: 210-339-1806
Passcode: 9589308

Attendance and Quorum
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MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE

4/5 Voting Members attending: 3/5 requirement for quorum was satisfied

 * Jacques Durand, Chair (Fujitsu)
 * Dennis Hamilton, Secretary (Individual)
 * Frederick Boland (NIST)
 * Kevin Looney (Oracle)

 [*: Voting member at start and conclusion of the meeting (4)
  +: Becomes voting member following this teleconference meeting (0)]


MEMBERS ABSENT

   Dale Moberg (Axway Software)
   Hyunbo Cho (Individual)
   Youngkon Lee (Individual)
   Kyoung_Rog Yi (National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Korea)
 = Patrick Curran (Oracle)
   Dmitry Kostovarov, (Oracle)
 * Paul Rank (Oracle)
   Victor Rudometov, (Oracle)

 [*: Voting member at start and conclusion of the meeting (1)
  -: Becomes non-Voting member at conclusion of the meeting (0)
  =: Persistent non-Voting Member at start and conclusion of meeting (1)]

1. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

1.1 APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
  <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tag/201012/msg00002.html>
  The 2010-11-30 Minutes were approved without objection
  [Note: The 2010-10-26 Minutes have still not been approved:
   < http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tag/201010/msg00007.html>]

1.2 APPROVAL OF AGENDA
  <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tag/201101/msg00001.html>
  The agenda was followed. 

1.3 ACTION ITEMS AND JIRA ISSUES
   There are no new or unapplied issues.
   We have not review Action Items in a few meetings.  It appears that we
could have closed some more.  The following are continued from November, 2010:

* AI1-Aug17: [Jacques/Dennis] Create an account of the disposition of Public
Review comments in an appropriate form.

* AI1-June23: [Kevin] Review the guidelines to see if there is a need for
more alignment now that the model document has been refined. 

* AI3-June23: [Jacques] Note that the UML diagram must change on test set to
align with the change in language.

* AI4-June23 [Jacques] Update the XML Schema for the Markup to reflect the
changes being made.

* AI2-June9: [Jacques] Create an issue on the Normative Source Structure and
how we propose to simplify it.


2. NEXT STEPS FOR THE TAG SPECIFICATIONS

We had further discussion about statements of use.  There need to be three organizational members of OASIS who declare that they have successfully used a specification and satisfied at least one conformance clause [target?].

The expectation is that we will have enough for each of the Model and TAML by mid-March that we can initiate the standardization process, make the formal request, etc.

We want to avoid having the candidate specification public review and the OASIS ballot be in July-August.  Having the candidate public review be in April-May and standardization ballot be in June would keep us clear of the slow summer months.

There was also speculation about conferences where Test Assertions usage could be promoted.

It is also encouraging to see new users in OASIS TCs (such as DSS and SCA).  

We want to think of ways that we can make the TA Guidelines more visible and accessible.

3. NEXT MEETING

The next meeting is Tuesday, February 22.

Anyone for which this date does not work is requested to let Jacques know as soon as possible.

The milestone is to have most if not all of the needed statements of use by February 22.

 - Dennis E. Hamilton 



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