Object Oriented Petri Nets in Software Development and Deployment

Object Oriented Petri Nets, DEVS, model deployment

Modeling, implementation, and testing are integral parts of system development process. Models usually serve for description of system architecture and behavior and are automatically or manually transformed into executable models or code in a programming language. Tests can be performed on implemented code or executable models; it depends on used design methodology. Although models can be transformed, the designer has to usually adapt resulted code manually. It can results in inconsistency among design models and their realization and the further development, testing and debugging by means of prime models is impossible. The approach discussed in this paper allows to model and test systems using high-level languages, especially Object Oriented Petri Nets combined with Discrete Event System Specification, whereas models are deployed to the product environment and become integral part of the system.