The OpenTAP project's goal is to create a development community for advanced automation, using a variety of tools including a test sequence. The community would participate with plugins and solutions to support faster development, added and improved functionality, as well as optimization in test.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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