Development of a Visual Simulation Tool for Object Behavior Chart based on LOTOS Formalism
Gwang-Yong Lee, O Yeong-Bae · 1999
This paper presents a visual simulation tool for verification and validation(V&V) of design implications of the Object Behavior Chart developed in accordance with the existing real-time object's behavior design method. This tool can simulates the dynamic interactions using the executable simulation machine, that is EFSM(Extended Finite State Machine) and can detect various logical and temporal errors in the visual object behavior charts before a concrete implementation is made. For this, a LOTOS prototype specification is automatically generated from the visual Object Behavior Chart, and is translated into an EFSM. This system is implemented in Visual C++ version 4.2 and currently runs on PC Windows 95 environment. For simulation purpose, LOTOS was chosen because of it's excellence in specifying communication protocols. Our research contributes to the support tools for seamlessly integrating methodology-based graphical models and formal-based simulation techniques, and also contributes to the automated V&V of the Visual Models.