ByteIO Telcon Notes 25/7/06 Mark Morgan Neil Chue Hong Michel Drescher Amy Krause Next call is 8th August 2006 UK time BST. GGF Session has been requested. Mark still has the editing token on revisions of the specs. Michel circulated a draft of an interop testing. One of the questions is whether you test multiple clients with service implementations or provide a reference implementation of a client. If you just test clients against service implementations you are not actually testing against the spec (proper validation) you are just testing that they work together. We are not testing "real" clients but a representation of client side code. Does this mean that each implementor needs to provide a client library along with some way to script it. Put out a script/scenario a month earlier so that each implementor can run the scenario using their own client and service code. Could base this on JUnit/NUnit. Use some forum (the mailing list) where people could advertise endpoints, discuss problems. These endpoints are for "pre-testing". On the actual interop day, you are trying to fill in the tables for clients and services for each test case. Suggest that createResource operation should take as an input parameter a unique string, and then assign a unique string to each interop case to allow implementators to turn on and off different cases, to allow for lazy implementations. Hold off on "pre-testing" discussion until we have published a first public draft of the document. Michel will create a new folder on Gridforge for storage of interoperability material. -- Neil P Chue Hong | T: [+44] (0)131 650 5957 Project Manager, EPCC | F: [+44] (0)131 650 6555 Rm 2409, JCMB, Mayfield Rd. | E: N.ChueHong@epcc.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK | W: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk BT MeetMe: http://tinyurl.com/8mwhd - Code: 14712935# "A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death - in a word, emotion." - Sam Fuller