plugfest

An event during which hardware devices are tested for interoperability with emerging standards by physically connecting them together.

Noun

  1. An event during which hardware devices are tested for interoperability with emerging standards by physically connecting them together.
    • In the New Serial Bus (NSB) plugfest, the FooMonkey device was unable to connect to a NSB controller and therefore did not receive compliance certification.
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20090510001105/http://syseng.nist.gov/se-interop/plugfest/
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20061230043903/http://www.scsita.org/news_events/plugfests/plugfests.html

Origin

From plug + -fest.

Forms

plugfests