WiP abstract: BraceForce: Software engineering support for sensing in CPS applications

Developing and deploying CPS applications involves a large amount of low-level programming that requires interacting with different (often proprietary) data formats, languages, and operating systems. In practice, applications are built for specific sensor network platforms with little potential for portability to other platforms or integration with other sensors. Debugging CPS applications that inherently integrate with a physical environment requires not only the aforementioned integration of the application with sensing but also the use of a testing harness that, at debugging time, accesses sensed data about the physical environment for the purposes of validating the actions of the application. Integrating sensing for application and debugging support in a way that is easy, flexible, and portable is essential for supporting CPS application development.