Simulated Time for Testing Railway Interlockings with TTCN-3
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Railway control systems are timed and safety-critical. Testing these systems is a key issue. Prior to system testing, the software of a railway control system is tested separately from the hardware. Here we show that real time and scaled time semantics are inefficient for testing this software. We provide a time semantics with simulated time and show that this semantics is more suitable for testing of software of railway
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