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Software development for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) suffers from the adverse condition that WSN software systems can usually not be tested on a system-level in their final operations environment, as WSN deployment is an expensive and time-consuming process. Several authors therefore propose to interlock application software test tightly with simulation. In this paper, we introduce an XML-based description language that allows the WSN programmer to define a common Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for seamless transfer of WSN application code between WSN node target platforms and simulator-provided platforms. We show how a common network simulator can be enhanced to fully support system-level testing of WSN application code, make some comments on the resulting changes in the software development process, and finally illustrate our approach by an example.
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Koberstein, J., Luttenberger, N. (2006). System-Level WSN Application Software Test Using Multi-platform Hardware Abstraction Layers. In: Cao, J., Stojmenovic, I., Jia, X., Das, S.K. (eds) Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. MSN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11943952_70
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