Cinderella announces MSC editor and Code Generator

Extending the SDL tool family with C++ generation

We're happy to announce that new exciting products are to be released from Cinderella:
1. Cinderella SITE - The Cinderella full fledged SDL -> C++ code generator.
2. Cinderella MSC - The Cinderella MSC-96/2000 editor.
3. Cinderella SLIPPER - The Cinderella light weight SDL -> C code generator.

Fully documented client APIs come with Cinderella SDL and Cinderella MSC installations. These APIs tie the products together, for tracing, MSC generation, testing, debugging, GUI development etc.

The new products will be demonstrated first time during the SDL-forum event which takes place in Stuttgart Germany July 2-4 (see www.sdl-forum.org)

Cinderella MSC Features

Cinderella MSC is a visual modelling tool for analysis, specification, documentation and testing of communications services, protocols, or any kind of message/signal based system.

Cinderella MSC is based on the specification language MSC, standardised by the International Telecommunication Unionm ITU. MSC is a graphical notation that encompasses the expressive power of UML sequence diagrams.

A powerful API (Application Programming Interface) comes with the Cinderella MSC tool. The API allows an external program to manipulate Cinderella MSC through a set of simple C-like function calls.

Implementation links allow tracing the MSC from Cinderella SDL

The API can both be used from a server application (a dll called from the MSC editor) and from a server application (an external program controlling Cinderella MSC).

Examples of API usage are:
Generation of an MSC as an execution trace
Generation of test cases from an MSC
Conversion of an MSC from/to another format (e.g. Telelogic Tau)
Seamless integration of cinderella MSC with other tools/programs.

Two applications with source code come with Cinderella MSC
A server application for generation of textual MSC
A client application for using Cinderella MSC for testing together with Cinderella SDL

Cinderella SITE Features

Generates ANSI C++ from SDL

Supports most of SDL-96 plus selected parts of SDL-2000 like expection handling

Code genereation errors are reported in Cinderella SDL the usual way

Generation of MSC. The MSC is decorated with implementation links to facilitate execution tracing

Supported environment models:
COBRA
COM
DLL plugins