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Following are the minutes to the Hyades Execution team meeting, February 
20th.

Execution Environment Control Group Members:
Kent Siefkes, Joe Toomey, Kris Kobylinski,  Ian Hunter, Clay Williams, 
Neil Sanderson

Attending this meeting:
Kent Siefkes, Joe Toomey, Kris Kobylinski, Ian Hunter, Neil Sanderson

Proposed Agenda:
1. Kris will lead a review of the sequence diagrams outlining the 
realization of use case
   from IBM's existing manual test execution environment that were mailed 
out this week.

Actions/Results:
1. Kris presented the sequence diagrams, resulting in a detailed Q&A 
session,
   and a satisfactory understanding of how a sample execution environment 
interacts with
   the RAC, agents, and the workbench for test initialization and test 
execution use cases.
2. Neil will be presenting information and demo on Scapatech's execution 
environment for
   next week's meeting.  (Kent will do a similar TestManager presentation 
at the following
   meeting.)
3. Team members that own tasks in the plan will provide target completion 
dates by next
   week's meeting

Additional Discussion:
1. Joe has looked at Staf and raised the general question of "What are the 
test services that
   Hyades will provide during test execution (other than the logging and 
datapooling services
   that have been identified)?  If the goal of Hyades is to provide a 
number of additional
   services, such as shared variables, synchronization, timers, etc., then 
should we build them
   ourselves or try to leverage Staf or TSS (or other) existing code to 
achieve this?  We also
   discussed the original motivation for looking at Staf/Stax and TSS (as 
identified in our
   current plan-for-plan) which was to investigate asset re-use and test 
execution of these
   existing tests under Hyades, offering a potential migration and/or 
interoperability option
   for those user communities.  We concluded that we needed to pursue 
investigating the
   technical feasibility and level of effort for leveraging Staf/Stax 
and/or TSS under Hyades
   to provide such services because we don't currently have a good feel 
for the cost/benefit.