A Flexible, Extensible Simulation Environment for Testing Real-Time Specifications

  • Authors:
  • Monica Brockmeyer;Farnam Jahanian;Constance Heitmeyer;Elly Winner

  • Affiliations:
  • Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI;Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor;Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, Washington, D.C.;Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes MTSim, an extensible, customizable simulation platform for the Modechart toolset (MT). MTSim provides support for 驴plugging in驴 user-defined viewers useful in simulating system behavior in different ways, including application-specific ways. MTSim also supports full user participation in the generation of simulations by allowing users to inject events into the execution trace. Moreover, MTSim provides monitoring and assertion checking of execution traces and the invocation of user-specified handlers upon assertion violation. This paper also introduces an MTSim component called WebSim, a suite of simulation tools for MT, and an application-specific component of MTSim which displays the cockpit of an F-18 aircraft and which responds to user inputs to model a bomb release function.