Automated Testing Summit 2019

This is a public planning page for the Automated Testing Summit

Please see: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/ats-2019/

= 2019 meeting = Coordinated by: Tim Bird This is now a full-blow Linux Foundation event, with sponsors, a CFP, program and everything.

See the Linux Foundation Event page for details.

Mailing list
Inter-project discussions on Automated Testing occur on the "Automated Testing" mailing list of the Yocto Project
 * See https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/automated-testing

= Date and Venue =
 * Location: Lyon, France
 * Venue: Lyon Convention Center, 50 Quai Charles de Gaulle
 * Date: October 31, 2019
 * Rooms: Pasteur Lounge and Rhone 3AB
 * Time: 9:00 am to 17:15 (5:15 pm)


 * co-located (following) Embedded Linux Conference Europe and Open Source Summit Europe
 * ELCE and OSSEU run Oct 28-30
 * see https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe-2019/

Attendance is by open to the public, and we are projecting the attendee fee to be $250, with this fee waived for speakers.

= Summit Pre-planning = Here is a list of action items to do to prepare for the summit:
 * organize program committee (in progress)
 * get sponsors
 * create sponsorship prospectus (almost done)
 * contact candidate sponsors (in progress)
 * hold "Call for Proposals"
 * need to determine CFP dates (done)
 * determine agenda
 * organize program committee (in progress)
 * advertise for attendees
 * reserve venue, catering, AV rentals (done)
 * create signage, web site, registration system

For private planning information, see the private planning wiki page

Call for Presentations

 * CFP Open: Tuesday, May 28
 * CFP Close: Friday, August 13
 * Notifications Out: September 2
 * Schedule Out: September 4
 * Slides Due: October 24, 2019
 * Event Date: October 31, 2019

Suggested Topics
 * Board Farms and Test Labs - hardware, software, useful practices
 * Layers and Interfaces - components of your automated CI loop and protocols between them
 * Results Reporting - results aggregation, visualization, notifications, etc.
 * Defining standards - propose or discuss conventions for test definitions, results formats, layer interoperability (e.g. protocols), etc.
 * Existing Projects - describe your test system or framework and any challenges you overcame or that are still outstanding
 * Scalability - supporting big data, or handling distributed builds or tests
 * Ease of use - making testing and test development accessible to non-QA folk (developers, end-users)

= Pre-meeting work = Here's what Tim thinks we need to do:
 * Refine the test stack reference diagram
 * Organize committees for specific APIs
 * designate a head for each committee

= Sponsors = Sponsorship is being provided by:
 * (To be announced)

= Schedule = (To be announced)

= Summit Artifacts = (To be uploaded after the event)

Action items from meeting
Action items: