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