Come, Let's Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSCs and the Play-Engine
This book does not tell a story. Instead, it is about stories. Or rather, in technical terms, it is about scenarios. Scenarios of system behavior. It concentrates on reactive systems, be they software or hardware, or combined computer-embedded systems, including distributed and real-time systems. We propose a different way to program such systems, centered on interobject scenario-based behavior. The book describes a language, two techniques, and a supporting tool. The language is a rather broad extension of live sequence charts (LSCs), the original version of which was proposed in 1998 by W. Damm and the first-listed author of this book. The first of the two techniques, called play-in, is a convenient way to 'play in' scenariobased behavior directly from the system's graphical user interface (QUI). The second technique, play-out, makes it possible to execute, or 'play out', the behavior on the QUI as if it were programmed in a conventional intraobject state-based fashion. All this is implemented in full in our tool, the Play-Engine. The book can be viewed as offering improvements in some of the phases of known system development life cycles, e.g., requirements capture and analysis, prototyping, and testing. However, there is a more radical way to view the book, namely, as proposing an alternative way to program reactivity, which, being based on inter-object scenarios, is a lot closer to how people think about systems and their behavior.
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Come, Let's Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSCs and the Play-Engine
This book does not tell a story. Instead, it is about stories. Or rather, in technical terms, it is about scenarios. Scenarios of system behavior. It concentrates on reactive systems, be they software or hardware, or combined computer-embedded systems, including distributed and real-time systems. We propose a different way to program such systems, centered on interobject scenario-based behavior. The book describes a language, two techniques, and a supporting tool. The language is a rather broad extension of live sequence charts (LSCs), the original version of which was proposed in 1998 by W. Damm and the first-listed author of this book. The first of the two techniques, called play-in, is a convenient way to 'play in' scenariobased behavior directly from the system's graphical user interface (QUI). The second technique, play-out, makes it possible to execute, or 'play out', the behavior on the QUI as if it were programmed in a conventional intraobject state-based fashion. All this is implemented in full in our tool, the Play-Engine. The book can be viewed as offering improvements in some of the phases of known system development life cycles, e.g., requirements capture and analysis, prototyping, and testing. However, there is a more radical way to view the book, namely, as proposing an alternative way to program reactivity, which, being based on inter-object scenarios, is a lot closer to how people think about systems and their behavior.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783540007876 |
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| Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publication date: | 08/13/2003 |
| Edition description: | 2003 |
| Pages: | 382 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.04(d) |
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