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" NAME grope
AUTHOR Darren New <new@udel.edu>
FUNCTION Graphical Representation of Protocols in Estelle
ST-VERSIONS 2.2 2.5
PREREQUISITES # NIST's wizard and wize
CONFLICTS
DISTRIBUTION global
VERSION 1990
DATE 12/1990
SUMMARY
GROPE (Graphical representation of protocols in Estelle) is a tool for
graphically animating the dynamic execution of an Estelle formal specification.
Developed in Smalltalk-80 and based on a SUN 3/110 workstation, GROPE is a
window-based system that pictorially represents a protocol's architecture,
animates transitions firing and the exchange of interactions between modules,
graphically displays a module's extended finite state machine and the
changing of states, and so on.
It is expected that the GROPE tool will assist the original protocol specifier
in the design and debugging process, promote faster understanding of a
protocol by those using it for the first time, and facilitate the development
of effective test scenarios.
GROPE runs on Sun-3s, Sun-4s, Macintoshes, IBM PCs, and others (tm's).
It requires ParcPlace Smalltalk-80(tm) Version 2.5 and works best with
NIST's WISE interpreter. Full details of system requirements may be
found in the Grope-Readme file.
GROPE is available via EMail by anyone sending their email address to
grope@udel.edu. If possible, please send your name and affiliation for
the purpose of allowing me to support claims of usefullness. The actual
code is available, as are Postscript versions of articles describing
GROPE and its operation.
Also available via email is a collection of ``real world'' Estelle
specifications, many of which have been made to work with GROPE. Send
mail to 'Est-Specs@udel.edu' for more information. Contributions
welcome!
If you have any comments, questions, problems, or suggestions for improvement,
please feel free to contact us at GROPE@UDEL.EDU or USA phone number
(302) 451-8013 (Darren New) or (302) 451-1944 (Paul Amer, CIS dept).
GROPE can also be obtained by those without email access: contact us.
Our mailing address is
Paul Amer
c/o Department of Computer and Information Science
103 Smith Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19717
FAX: 302-451-8000
A complete description of GROPE is appeared in
Information Software and Technology
in March of 1990 under the title
'Adding Graphics and Animation to Estelle'.
Also, an update on the status of GROPE was presented at FORTE'90
in Madrid, Spain and will appear in those proceedings.
These papers are available in Postscript form to those who request it.
A LaTeX version of these papers are also available for those without
Postscript, but lacking issulstrations suffer in their presentation.
"
" Code not available --- apply to authors as above. "