Click for the book's Preface and Table of Contents.
Click for book information from Amazon or from Barnes & Noble.
Click for the book's Full Version.
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June 2016 - New Full Version Available! (Follow link to the updates page on the bottom) |
David Harel and Rami Marelly 2016 Version - Done with the aid of Yaarit NatanWeizmann Institute of Science |
This website is the internet companion site for the following book, and for the Play-Engine software tool that is available for download here.
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The book describes a language (live
sequence charts, or LSCs), two techniques (play-in and play-out), and a
supporting tool (the Play-Engine), for capturing reactive behavior in a
scenario-based fashion. Play-in is a convenient way to 'play' scenario-based
behavior directly from the system's graphical user interface (GUI), and play-out
makes it possible to execute the behavior on the GUI as if it were programmed
in a conventional state-based fashion. All this is implemented in full in the
Play-Engine. Click for the book's Preface and Table of Contents. Click for book information from Amazon or from Barnes & Noble. Click for the book's Full Version. |
The website allows you to download Play-Engine, view pre-recorded demos of the
Play-Engine in action, to send in comments and to report errors, both on the
book and on the software.
The Play-Engine does not work on Macintosh computers. Also, a screen resolution of at least 800x600 is needed for the site, though 1280x1024 is better for the demos.
We welcome comments about text of the book, including apparent errors or unclear passages. Please do not send such messages to our personal email addresses. Rather, click here to send your message to our special playbook address (or email directly yourself to playengine@weizmann.ac.il):
We will periodically post an updated list of errata here:
The latest version available for download is version 4.6.0 from 2016 (June).
For those who do not want
to use the Play-Engine software themselves, or who want to see it in operation
prior to using it, we have prepared some
pre-recorded demos.
To view these, click here:
As with the text of the
book, we welcome
comments
and
bug reports
on the Play-Engine software. Please do not send such messages to our
personal email addresses. Rather, click here to send your message to
our special Play-Engine address (or email directly yourself to
playengine@weizmann.ac.il):
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