Flow management requirements of a test harness for testing the reliability of an electronic CAD system

A test harness is a system for testing the reliability of electronic CAD systems (ECADS). Modern ECADS's utilize a framework component for basic services. Since frameworks were originally applied to ECADS's, little is known about the framework requirements for supporting a test harness. Previous work shows that the framework's design data manager can be used. We conclude here that a design flow manager, with slight adaptations, can be used as well. We provide a motivated list of flow requirements, give insight into good and bad features and discuss implementation aspects.<
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