Sismic—A Python library for statechart execution and testing

Statecharts are a well-known visual modelling language for representing the executable behaviour of complex reactive event-based systems. The essential complexity of statechart models solicits the need for advanced model testing and validation techniques, such as test-driven development, behaviour-d...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:SoftwareX
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711020303034
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Summary:Statecharts are a well-known visual modelling language for representing the executable behaviour of complex reactive event-based systems. The essential complexity of statechart models solicits the need for advanced model testing and validation techniques, such as test-driven development, behaviour-driven development, design by contract, and property statecharts for monitoring of violations of behavioural properties during statechart execution. Sismic is an open-source Python library providing a tool suite to define, simulate, execute and test statecharts with all of the aforementioned techniques.
ISSN:2352-7110