@InProceedings{Rudolph2000,
  author       = {Ekkart Rudolph and Ina Kathrin Schieferdecker and Jens Grabowski},
  booktitle    = {Proc. of the 2nd Workshop on {SDL} and MSC, Col de Porte, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2000},
  title        = {HyperMSC - a Graphical Representation of {TTCN}},
  abstract     = {The development of an MSC (Message Sequence Chart) based graphical representation of TTCN (Tree and Tabular Combined Notation) is part of the ETSI project STF 156 on 'Specification of a Message Sequence Chart/UML format, including validation for TTCN-3'. Important language constructs of TTCN can be translated into corresponding MSC constructs in a straightforward manner. However, it turns out that without certain extensions and modifications, the ITU standard language MSC is not capable to produce a sufficiently transparent and readable graphical representation of TTCN. In order to arrive at a really convincing solution, High-level MSCs are re-interpreted in a way, which has an analogy in hypertext-like specifications. MSC references may be shown also in an expanded manner and non-expanded MSC references may contain hypertext-like descriptions instead of pure reference names. As a result, there does not exist a strict borderline between High-level MSCs and Basic MSCs any longer. Such a generalisation of MSC is really efficient only together with a corresponding tool support, which allows the smooth transition between different levels of detailed description similarly to hypertext. Therefore, the name 'HyperMSC' is proposed for such extended High-level MSCs. The paper demonstrates how HyperMSCs arise from standard MSC descriptions in an evolutionary process of stepwise improvement and simplification.},
  pages        = {76--91},
  file         = {:2000/Rudolph2000 - HyperMSC a Graphical Representation of TTCN.pdf:PDF},
  numpages    = {16},
  year         = {2000},
  type			= {conference}
}