Verification of SimCo — Simulation tool for testing of component-based application

In software testing, most attention is given to verify the functionality of produced software. However, the quality of services (such as time to response or amount of produced data) is also important, especially in world of mobile or embedded devices. These properties are often estimated by using models of components, instead of testing the components from real applications. We have developed a simulation-based, non-invasive tool for testing and verifying characteristics of components or parts of component applications. In this paper, we present our approach to testing these properties and verification of functionality of our tool. Our approach allows testing of components without changing their implementation, as a black box objects. The results of our simulation tool are compared with results obtained from self-measuring application in order to validate the functionality of our simulation.