Jim Ramsay
Jim Ramsay is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience in telecom, storage, virtualization, and containerization, currently at Red Hat in the precision timing team focusing on delivering high-precision timing solutions for OpenShift customers. In his spare time he enjoys writing and playing music.
Session
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is critical for modern infrastructure, but aligning developers, quality engineers, customers, and hardware vendors on specific use-case requirements is notoriously difficult. To bridge this communication gap, our team created the PTP Testable Requirements Repository—an open-source hub designed to serve as a single source of truth for PTP integration.
In this 5-minute lightning talk, I will introduce this new spec-driven repository (github.com/ptp-spec-driven/clock-requirements). I will briefly explain how we use it to publish clear, testable requirements for various PTP use-cases, ensuring that Red Hat Dev, QE, external customers, and hardware suppliers are perfectly aligned. You will learn how this open-source approach eliminates ambiguity, communicates exactly what use-cases we care about, and defines precisely how they will be tested. Join me to see how spec-driven testing can streamline your next hardware or software integration!