sismic 0.14.0

Sismic Interactive State Machine Interpreter and Checker

Sismic Interactive State Machine Interpreter and Checker

Statecharts are a well-known visual language for modeling the executable behavior of complex reactive event-based systems. The Sismic library for Python >= 3.4 provides a set of tools to define, validate, simulate, execute and debug statecharts. More specifically, Sismic provides:

• An easy way to define and to import statecharts, based on the human-friendly YAML markup language
• A statechart interpreter offering a discrete, step-by-step, and fully observable simulation engine
• Synchronous and asynchronous simulation, in real time or simulated time
• Support for communication between statecharts and co-simulation
• Built-in support for expressing actions and guards using regular Python code
• A design-by-contract approach for statecharts
• A unit testing framework for statecharts, including generation of test scenarios

Sismic provides full support for the majority of the UML 2 statechart concepts:

• simple states, composite states, orthogonal (parallel) states, initial and final states, shallow and deep history states
• state transitions, guarded transitions, automatic (eventless) transitions, internal transitions
• statechart variables and their initialisation
• state entry and exit actions, transition actions
• internal and external events, parametrized events, timed events

In addition to this, contracts can be specified to express invariants, pre- and postconditions on states, transitions and the statechart itself.

The Sismic library is written in a modular way:

• The semantics of the statechart interpreter is based on the specification of the SCXML semantics (with a few exceptions), and can be easily tuned to other semantics.
• While currently, contracts, guards and actions are expressed in Python, this support can be easily extended to other languages.

Installation

Sismic can be installed using pip as usual: pip install sismic. This will install the latest stable version.

You can also install Sismic from this repository by cloning it. The development occurs in the master branch, the latest stable distributed version is in the stable branch.

Sismic requires Python >=3.4 but should also work with Python 3.3.

Documentation

The latest version of the documentation is available at http://sismic.readthedocs.org/ .

It can also be directly built from the docs/ directory using Sphinx.

Credits

Developed by Alexandre Decan at the University of Mons (Belgium).

GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.