Thermo Special Interest Group met on November 8, 2022 froml 1:30 pm till 3:30 pm.
Agenda
- Progress the specification of tests on Property Packages
Participants
AmsterCHEM (represented by Jasper van BATEN), BASF (represented by Sergej BLAGOV), KBC (represented by Richard SZCZEPANSKI), Michel PONS (Consultant as Chief Technology Officer). Apologies received from University of Cape Town (represented by Klaus MÖLLER)
Highlights
Thermo SIG went over the comment made by Richard SZCZEPANSKI on the specification of tests on implementations of the ICapeThermoUniversalConstants interface. More precise references to the Thermodynamic and Physical Properties interface specification document were introduced throughout the document specifying tests.
Thermo SIG addressed the issue that the Thermodynamic and Physical Properties interface specification, as published, contains many errors and is inconsistent in many places. One of the most evident is the possibility left for most of the methods to return a CAPE-OPEN exception ECapeNoImpl to state that a method is not implemented. Since Compliance Tests are written in such a way that any exception raised leads to a Test failure, there is a major inconsistency between the contents of the Thermodynamic and Physical Properties interface specification and the way compliance tests need to be designed.
The Tests should be designed to verify that the current implementations are correct in achieving interoperability even if the Tests do not relate exactly to the interface specification. Thermo SIG needs to focus on listing the Tests to be done, not on specifying in details the Tests. In this way Thermo SIG will not be the bottleneck in the development of the CO-LaN Test Suite. In parallel a very complete Errata & Specifications document has to be written up so that Tests may make reference to it.
