From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!bionet!agate!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!WHITAKER From: WHITAKER@A.ISI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: ATLAS/Ada Binding - Meeting Report Message-ID: <9011160645.AA17069@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 16 Nov 90 06:43:26 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: ATLAS Meeting in Ft. Lauderdale FL (29 Oct-2 Nov 1990) Report by William A. Whitaker ATLAS (Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems) is an IEEE Standard, a version of which (C/ATLAS, IEEE Std 716) been adopted by the DoD and is specified for maintenance test programs. DoD has been pushing for the use of Ada in all applications, including ATE. The IEEE ATLAS standards committee set up an "ABET" (ATLAS/Ada Based Environment for Test) working group to develop the Ada binding for ATLAS. The ABET Requirements document now appears to be well established and stable. A Rationale document has been established and an architecture document is well along under development. Technical code work has now begun in earnest. The ATLAS Interface Working Group, developing the Ada specs that correspond to ATLAS semantics, is making progress. There is a Working Draft 2.00, assembled by Jeudha Ziegler of ITT under STARS sponsorship, to comment against. For the ATLAS/Ada WG a system for handling technical issues, similar to Ada AIs, has been set up to document the development. 50 issues were processed at this meeting. The mapping of ATLAS features into ABET has begun. The other binding effort, for the ATE System Layer, has established its direction. The next ABET meeting should provide a sketch of the eventual product. I might hope for a working prototype demonstration by May, but I am always optimistic. Further meetings of the ABET subcommittee already scheduled: Washington (Tyson's Corner, VA, Hilton) February 5-7, and Germany in May of 1991. There has still been no participation in the Working Groups from the Ada community. The work of the binding groups is entirely Ada, only Ada code is being produced, there are not going to be any changes to ATLAS. The Committee is insufficiently staffed in Ada experts. Since I am ABET Liaison to the Ada community, it must be all my fault. The Air Force has selected and is funding several contractors to participate in an Air Force ABET Technical Advisory Group (ATAG). This Group is to develop proposals for the ABET Committee. The Chairman of ABET is Richard Weger, AAI Corp, PO Box 126, Hunt Valley, MD 21030-0126, (301) 628-3634. -------