The OpenTAP Newsletter!
Issue #4 - February 2022
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Thank you for subscribing to the OpenTAP® community newsletter. This quarter's newsletter continues to reach out to the growing OpenTAP ecosystem of end-users, platform contributors, plugin developers, testers, and other interested parties with news about OpenTAP releases, ecosystem partners, events, user stories and other useful information.
The February 2022 issue covers:
- New OpenTAP.io web site
- OpenTAP Adoption White Paper
- New Video Series - Building an Operator GUI
- Pickering Joins OpenTAP Partner Program
- Blog: Using OpenTAP for Home Automation
- Why release your OpenTAP plugin as Open Source?
- Highlights from OpenTAP Release 9.16
- Upcoming and recent events
- Partner Update
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The updated website features a new look, updated content and streamlined navigation. Check it out!
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OpenTAP Adoption White Paper
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This new white paper follows the OpenTAP adoption experience of a test and measurement organization. It explores the motives that drive the team, and the challenges met and overcome in migration to a standards-based, off- the-shelf, open source test automation platform – OpenTAP.
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Building an Operator GUI,
A new video series
Keysight is proud to announce a new series of Lightning Videos, this time focused on Building an Operator GUI. Such GUIs are very useful when running tests with high-volume production and manufacturing.
Please join our speaker, Kaushik Santhanam, as he presents this first video covering
- What does the GUI look like?
- What functionality does it contain?
- How to build it?
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Pickering Interfaces Joins OpenTAP Test Automation Software Partner Program
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Pickering Interfaces, the leading supplier of modular signal switching and simulation solutions for electronic test and verification, is now an OpenTAP partner.
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Pickering joins other notable test companies in the open source, shared software workshop that enables users to contribute, collaborate and create automated test solutions.
Read more
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Blog: OpenTAP for Home Automation
This blog by Stefan Holst and Rolf Madsen of Keysight describes a an interesting application of OpenTAP that falls outside of typical test automation, to automate your residence using OpenTAP.
OpenTAP makes it easy!
The blog includes code examples and screen shots from a home automation GUI. Check it out!
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Why Release your plugin as Open Source?
The OpenTAP project enjoys a worldwide user community and a growing cadre of contributors. Contributions ti OpenTAP can take a variety forms - feature requests, bug fixes, code patches, documentation, etc.The OpenTAP architecture was designed to make it easy to expand functionality and interoperability using plugins (vs. needing to modify the core platform/engine).
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With OpenTAP, there is no obligation to publish your code as open source - we chose MPLv2, an. “OEM-friendly” license to guarantee OpenTAP users maximum freedom in licensing and redistribution. But there are distinct advantages and benefits to releasing at least some of your OpenTAP plugins as open source software. Read more
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OpenTAP Release Highlights
Version 9.16
- Step Size Now Parameterized – you can now parameterize the Step Size in the Sweep Parameter Range step.
- New Connection Group Added – a new Connection Group has been added for the built-in connection types.
- Test Steps Can Now Include Pictures – a new attribute has been added to allow the inclusion of pictures to test steps.
- Support Added to Inherit Package Dependencies – packages now inherit package dependencies from other files.
For more information
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Events Calendar
Upcoming OpenTAP Events
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FOSSASIA Summit - April 7-9, 2022, OpenTAP will host a stand at the Summit in Singapore and online. The stand will feature various OpenTAP demos . Learn more.
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FOSDEM - Feb 5-6 1, 2022, OpenTAP hosted a stand at FOSDEM '22, February 5-6, in Brussels, Belgium and online. The stand featured various OpenTAP demos and was sponsored by Keysight, Huawei and others. Learn more.
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Productronica - Nov 16-19, 2021, Munich, Germany: OpenTAP was featured on display in the Keysight booth, with demos on robotics and massively parallel board testing. Learn More
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The Growing OpenTAP Ecosystem
The OpenTAP Ecosystem comprises a growing cohort of global partners:
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If you or your company would like to formally join the OpenTAP ecosystem just complete our CLA and logo usage form.
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