Chapter 6 Glossary of Reactis Concepts
In addition to browsing the model itself, Reactis Model Inspector lets you examine various
testing and validation artifacts created in Reactis. Reactis is a
separate product of Reactive Systems that supports automated testing and
validation of Simulink models. This chapter provides a brief description
of Reactis artifacts that can be examined in Reactis Model Inspector. For more complete
descriptions, please see the Reactis User’s Guide, available at:
Throughout this chapter, the notation RUG:9
denotes Chapter 9
and the notation RUG:7.2 denotes Section 7.2 of the Reactis User’s Guide.
- Configuration Variable.
- A configuration variable is a workspace variable tagged in Reactis to be
changed in between tests, but not during a test. See RUG:5.4.
- Inport Type.
- Reactis lets you
assign a type or constraint to a top-level inport that will limit the values that
will be used for the inport for testing and validation. For example, you can limit
values for an inport to a range by specifying a minimum and maximum value. Type
constraints are manipulated from the Inport Types tab of the Reactis
Info File Editor and may be viewed from that tab in Reactis Model Inspector. See RUG:5.3.
- Reactis Makefile.
-
A Reactis Makefile (.rsm file) lists the C files that comprise
a library that implements an S-Function or is used by an S-Function
or Stateflow custom code. See RUG:16.
- Reactis Simulator.
- Simulator is a component of Reactis that
supports interactive simulation and debug of models. See RUG:7.
- Reactis Tester
- Component of Reactis that generates comprehensive
yet compact test suites from models. See RUG:8.
- Reactis Validator
- Component of Reactis that checks if a model
satisfies its requirements. See RUG:9.
- Test Point
-
A Test point is an internal data item, such as a Simulink block,
Simulink signal, or Stateflow variable, that Reactis treats as a virtual output. Reactis Tester records the values of test
points in test suites and Reactis Simulator flags any
differences between the values computed by a model for a test
point and those stored in a test suite. See RUG:5.5.
- Test Suite
- Test suites are the most important artifact created with
Reactis. A test suite is comprised of a set of tests. Each test in the
suite corresponds to a simulation run of the model that captures the top-level
inputs and outputs at each simulation step. Comprehensive yet compact
test suites are generated automatically by Reactis Tester. Reactis
Simulator lets you execute tests in order to debug your model. When
Reactis Validator finds a violation of a requirement it returns a test
that you can execute in Simulator in order to diagnose the problem.
Reactis Model Inspector lets you inspect tests using the Test Suite Browser.
- Validator Objective
-
Using Reactis Validator you can instrument your model with
Validator Objectives in order to check that your model satisfies
its requirements. Validator Objectives include assertions, user-define
targets, and virtual sources. See RUG:9.
- Virtual Source
-
A virtual source is a Validator objective that lets you control
a top-level inport of your model. See RUG:9.