[Oslc-steeringcommittee] 15-day Public Review for Product Life Cycle Support V1.0

[Schulte, Mark D]

Another interesting related standard that came up is for a Test Information exchange Format (OMG) that looks very similar to what we probably are covering (based on metamodel description, use of XML, some information provided below) under Quality Management.    This standard has been approved and is in Final Revision so should be available soon.  I see that IBM, INCOSE and some DoD customers are on the voting list for that (Naval Surface Warfare Center, Office of the Secretary of Defense).  This is coming out of the C4I group and it might make sense for me to make them aware of the OSLC discussions around the Systems Engineering Group at the next OMG meeting in order to develop some synergy there, unless someone else already has made a contact on this or knows more?

Any thoughts?

Directly from the specification:

"The goal is to achieve a specification that defines the format for the exchange of test information between tools, applications, and systems that utilize it. The term "test information" is deliberately vague, because it includes the concepts of tests (test cases), test results, test scripts, test procedures, and other items that are normally documented as part of a software test effort.

The long term goal is to standardize the exchange of all test related artifacts produced or consumed as part of the testing process, however, the current document is primarily focused on artifacts used or produced outside of test execution. The following are specifically in scope:

The format of information artifacts related to testing to enable data exchange.

*         Description of test specification entities including mandatory and user defined attributes.

*         The logical relationships between the test information entities.

*         Specification of a MOF compliant Platform Independent Model (expressed in UML) to cover test information data exchange.

*         A simple XML schema for validation of test data being exchanged."

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From: Ersch, Rainer [mailto:rainer.ersch at siemens.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:57 AM
To: Schulte, Mark D; oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net
Subject: RE: [Oslc-steeringcommittee] 15-day Public Review for Product Life Cycle Support V1.0

Hi Mark,
thanks for bringing this up. I had seen it before, but I forgot to ask during the StC meeting what we want/should/could do with it. Although their technical approach is quite different from the OSLC approach, we should have an opinion how to deal with our "sister" organization at OASIS.
We could e.g.

a)      simply add them to the candidate list of partner organization we may want to build a relationship with or

b)      we could do a more intense analysis of their approach to figure out where it complements OSLC and where it overlaps
>From my point of view a) would be enough for now, but consider b) at a later time.
Any comments from our technical coordinator? others?
Bye and have a nice day
Rainer


From: Oslc-steeringcommittee [mailto:oslc-steeringcommittee-bounces at open-services.net] On Behalf Of Schulte, Mark D
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:19 PM
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Subject: [Oslc-steeringcommittee] 15-day Public Review for Product Life Cycle Support V1.0

I was just curious as to whether others had seen this.


The OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC (which I know nothing about) sent out information on a review last week that sounded like it would have some relationship to the same things we are doing here with OSLC, although perhaps that is not quite the case.  Is this a concern?

"to establish structured data exchange and sharing capabilities for use by industry to support complex engineered assets throughout their total life cycle. The OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) standard is defined by Data Exchange Specifications (DEX) that are based upon ISO 10303 (STEP) Application Protocol 239 Product Life Cycle Support. This draft includes the PLCS library, templates, derived SysML and XML models and associated reference data."

Is there any synergy needed between this effort and the OSLC work?


Mark D. Schulte, Associate Technical Fellow
Systems, Software, PLM & ESML Engineering
Boeing Defense Systems
The Boeing Company<http://www.boeing.com/>
mark.d.schulte at boeing.com<mailto:mark.d.schulte at boeing.com>
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