Research on Federate Compliance Test method

Federations based on HLA should conform to a series of rules and be able to exchange data effectively through Run Time Infrastructure (RTI). Therefore, it is necessary to design effective Federate Compliance Test Software (FCT) to test federate, which assure the correctness of federates. Existing federate compliance test approaches that adopted dynamic compiling methods are difficult and complicated in using and realization. Based on the former test experience, a new method is brought forward in this paper. It uses the General Simulation Data Collect (GSDC) Technique which exchanges the data with Federate Under Test (FUT) by dynamic publication and subscription of objects and interactions. Therefore, compiling can be avoided and the testing work becomes simpler. The GSDC technique and the improved method are discussed in detail, and an example shows that the method is feasible in the end.