Timed MSCs - an Extension to MSC'96

摘要

This paper presents a new approach for extending Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) with time concepts. The approach is mainly aimed at using MSCs in the context of performance testing. The time extensions offer means to formally specify test purposes for performance testing as well as to describe time extended execution traces of distributed systems tests. Although already a number of time extensions has been proposed for MSCs, these are mainly aimed at describing timing requirements and not time measurements, which are needed for performance testing.